Speaking Chinese. Anyone Can Learn.

1. Maybe you know someone who knows Chinese who can teach you.
2. University, college, and community college classes.
3. Private tutors.
4. Language schools.
5. Self study programs you can get online.

There are probably others of course and lots of factors to consider. Some of the options mentioned above are gonna cost you, others are less expensive. Some are going to have you attending scheduled classes for a while. Others will let you study at your own pace in your own home. But don't worry, you can do this. You can learn how to speak Chinese. Trust me.

* L. Nelson Bell: American Missionary father-in-law of Billy Graham
* John Birch: American missionary and namesake of the John Birch Society
* Arthur Calwell: Australian politician
* John DeFrancis: American linguist
* Dashan: Canadian stage performer
* Wolfram Eberhard: German sociologist
* Ai Fukuhara: Japanese national table-tennis player
* Timothy Geithner: United States Secretary of the Treasury
* William Hootkins: American actor
* Herbert Hoover: American President
* Jon Huntsman, Jr: Governor of Utah and US Ambassador to China designate.
* Walter Henry Medhurst: British missionary and translator
* Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese revolutionary
* Chloe Mortaud: Miss France 2009[23]
* Michiko Nishiwaki: Japanese actress
* Timothy Richard: American Baptist missionary
* Kevin Rudd: Australian Prime Minister
* Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky: Russian-born Bishop of Shanghai
* Gary Snyder: American poet and essayist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
* Richard Sorge: Soviet spy
* Samuel Wells Williams: American missionary, linguist, and diplomat
* Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn: Thai princess

(Picture Above: Former President Herbert Hoover learned Chinese. So can you.)

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Okay, I'll be honest. Personally, my wallet is not really geared towards spending a lot of extra money at the moment. I looked into getting a tutor or taking a class somewhere and it was gonna cost a lot. In addition, I wasn't too crazy about signing up for hours of classes that would take months to complete.

What's more, I've always done a whole lot better learning things on my own at my own pace rather than sitting through dull classes. I don't know how you are, but that's just me. So an online study program to learn how to speak Chinese seems to me to be the best choice.

But, don't get me wrong. If you've got the time and money, classes might be best for you. My mom for example should take that route if she was gonna learn Chinese. (She's Greek-American by the way). There's no way she could do a study program like this at home, it's just not her style. And she's retired, she's got the time and the money and she'd love to get out and make friends at a school and stuff.

So anyway, it's the online route for me. But more on that in a moment.

After digging around on the Internet a lot, I found a bunch of Learn To Speak Chinese programs to choose from. A lot of them were pretty ridic. They seemed like just a bunch of audio tapes and stuff. So I won't spend a lot of time on those.

A handful or so seemed pretty legit. It kind of seemed like they were all pretty much the same. But upon digging further I found some important differences.

I think I'll just jump ahead right now to the one I ended up choosing. It's a program called Rocket Chinese. (cool name too haha)

Here are my reasons for picking it over all the over programs I Googled and researched...

1. They said that their program included audio tapes (good enough), memory games, and summary quizzes (that sounded a lot more fun than some of the others).

2. They offered a FREE 6-day trial (Can't beat that. Check it out. If it sucks send it back. I like that.)

3. Access to a 24/7 online support forum for members only where Chinese teachers and native speakers would answer your questions and help you out. (That sounded real good to me and like something I would want to use a lot.)

4. The cost was under $100. (That was around half the cost of my next closest choice. Again the wallet thing.)

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I'll be posting more soon. But, in the meantime, let me know what you think. How's your journey going? How are you doing it? How's things working for you? Hope to hear from you soon.