How to start learning Chinese for beginners?（怎样开始学中文？）
Dec 11, 2023
1.Go for training, not listening to lectures
（去训练，而非听课）
"Release the handbrake, step on the brake, put it in gear, release the brake, step on the gas, keep your eyes on the road ahead, and control the direction with your hands on the steering wheel."
（“放手刹，踩刹车，挂档，松刹车，踩油门，眼睛看前方道路，手扶方向盘控制方向。”）
The above paragraph is all about the basic knowledge of automobile driving skills. How far is knowing this knowledge from making you a skilled driver?
（上面这段话，是关于汽车驾驶技术的所有基础知识。知道这些知识，距离你成为一名熟练的司机差距有多远？）
The answer is simple: knowing this knowledge does not make a skilled driver, or even allow you to drive on the road.
（答案很简单，知道这些知识并不能让成为一个熟练的司机，甚至不能让你开车上路。）
How to start learning chinese? Many people start by looking for Chinese lessons and textbooks. But knowledge of Chinese in a classroom or textbook doesn't make you understand Chinese, speak it fluently, or read it, just like knowledge of driving doesn't make you learn to drive.
（怎样开始学中文？很多人是从寻找中文课和教材开始的。但是课堂上和教程里的中文的知识并不能让你听懂中文，流利的说中文，阅读中文书，就像知道驾驶的知识并不能让你学会开车一样。）
The only way to improve your abilities and skills is through effective training. Chinese, like any language, is a skill that needs to be acquired through training. You can't expect to learn to play the piano, play basketball, or drive a car by listening to lectures.
（提高能力和技能的唯一途径是有效的训练。中文和任何语言一样，是一项技能，需要通过训练来获得。你不能指望通过听课来学会弹钢琴，打篮球，开汽车。）
Similarly, you cannot expect to learn Chinese by listening to lectures. You can only acquire Chinese as a language skill through training. What kind of training? It is training in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
（同样，你也不能指望通过听课学会中文。要掌握中文这一门语言技能，你只能通过训练。训练什么？就是训练中文听说读写四项技能。）
But language training is not as easy as playing a video game. In a video game, every time you launch an attack and knock someone down, you immediately see your experience value go up, motivating you to keep fighting.
（但是语言训练并不是像打电子游戏一样简单。在电子游戏里，你每发起一次攻击，打倒一个人，你就立刻能看经验值上涨，激励你继续打下去。）
This is not the case with learning Chinese. If you practice listening for 30 minutes and memorize 10 words today, you won't be able to tell if you've made progress, and you'll forget all about it again in a couple of days. Only after a considerable period of time can you feel that you have reached a certain level. After that, you will enter the next stage where you can't feel any progress.
（而学中文并非如此，你今天练了30分钟听力，背了10个单词，你也看不出自己是否进步了，而且过两天又全忘了。只有经过相当长一段时间积累，你才能感觉到提到了一个水平。之后又会进入下一个无法感知任何进步的阶段。）
In the process of Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing training, more than 90% of the time we do not feel that we are making progress, and sometimes we even feel that we are going backwards. Because we can't feel progress, we have no way to be sure that we are going in the right direction and that our training methods are effective. When we're not sure, we doubt, fear, and eventually give up.
（在中文听说读写的训练过程中，我们90%以上的时间是感受不到自己在进步的，有时候甚至会感觉自己在倒退。因为感受不到进步，所以我们没办法确定自己的方向是否正确，自己的训练方法是否有效。当我们不确定时，我们就会怀疑、害怕，最终放弃。）
Therefore, "from beginner to master" is often only the ideal of various Chinese courses, and "from beginner to quitter" is the reality we are facing.
（所以，“从入门到精通”往往只是各种中文课程的理想，“从入门到放弃”才是我们面对的现实。）
2.All Chinese beginners need such a training plan!
（中文初学者都需要这样一个训练计划）
In order to solve the problem of "giving up in the middle", you need a Chinese coach to guide you in your Chinese training. That's why Wei calls myself a Chinese coach, not a Chinese teacher.
（为了解决“中途放弃”问题，你需要一个中文教练来指导自己的中文训练。这就是为什么老魏称自己中文教练，而不是中文老师。）
If you can't find a Chinese coach, you need at least a complete Chinese training plan. This plan includes: what I have to practice first, then what I have to practice, then what I have to practice, what method I have to use, how long I have to practice every day, how long I have to keep on training in total, and what goal I can achieve in the end.
（如果你找不到一个中文教练，你至少需要一个完整的中文训练计划。这个计划包括：我要先练什么，然后练什么，再练什么，用什么方法训练，每天要练多久，一共要坚持训练多久，最终能达到一个什么目标。）
With such a clear training plan, you will not get lost in the training process. If you don't know how to do a training plan, download the Painless Chinese Learning Guide from Wei's official website and refer to the last chapter. It lists the correct order of Chinese training.
（有了这样一个清晰的训练计划，你在训练的过程中就不会迷失。如果你不懂怎样做训练计划，在老魏的官网中下载《无痛中文学习指南》，参考最后一章。里面列明了中文训练的正确顺序。）
The order of listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, pinyin, etc. is the key to a Chinese training plan. As long as the order of training is correct, then your training program is feasible and will definitely lead you to learn Chinese, and you are already driving in the fast lane of Chinese learning. The content and method of training only determine whether you are going 80mph or 100mph.
（听力、口语、阅读、写作、词汇、拼音、等各项训练的顺序是中文训练计划的关键。只要训练顺序正确，那你的训练计划就是可行的，一定能带领你学会中文，你就已经开车形式在中文学习的快车道上了。而训练内容和训练方法只是决定了你的车速是80迈还是100迈。）
So how to start learning Chinese? Pick up a pen now and make a training plan in the right order, this is your real starting point.
（所以怎样开始学中文？现在就拿起笔做一个顺序正确的训练计划，这是你真正的起点。）
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