Question

Hello everybody, I just subscribed for the Chinese course. What should I do next?

Answer 1

Welcome!
You should start from the "Readings" page and ask your questions here.

Answer 2

ask questions and answer questions. in essense learn chinese with study partners. and just a side note. if i were you, i would scour the internet for any free good quality study materials i can find. and of course use them to better your chinese

Answer 3

If you're talking about what to do in your course: Okay, Chinese is torture if you don't start off right. Here's some tips:

-Take good notes, for the love of all that is on earth, take good notes
-Pay attention to the Han yu pin yin (the english letters used to show how a word is pronounced), the accents are freakishly important because you can end up saying pellet instead of dad.
-Practice writing the vocab over and over and over, its pretty much the only way to remember them. I mean, some teachers say that you can just remember the words based on what they look like. It only works in the very beginning.
-break words down into parts, in fact, chinese words are made of base words or parts.
heres a pelletty photo of a commonly used part of words.

Here's another pelletty photo, but this is used a lot too.
These parts often can signify what the word means, like latin bases. That last photo in fact, pops up in a lot of words involving water, like swim and ocean.
-Pay attention in class, do not play minecraft or words with friends or text in class. I spent my first years of chinese class drawing to pass time and it was hell trying to catch up.

Now, Good luck and don't die!