<p>I ask because I'm interested in learning Mandarin Chinese. I live in Malaysia, only speak one language (English), and I've been considering getting someone to teach me Chinese. However, it's quite expensive - about £11 an hour. So I'd like to know how long (i.e. how many hours) they need to teach me for, in total, before arranging a lesson. </p>
<p>Also, do I need a language tutor all the time, just till I stop being a beginner, or till I'm totally fluent?</p>
<p>Thanks :).</p>
<p>Chinese is not a language you can learn by yourself because you’re very easy to make mistake. And when you do nobody there to correct you</p>
<p>He’s not going to teach himself, he was looking for a tutor. I think your best bet would be to have the tutor and maybe self study a lot. That way you can get it done faster. But I think becoming fluent in it would take atleast a year… I am not sure about hours. Good luck. (You can always take a certain number of hours so you can learn it a little, then pick up on it by yourself, or see if a cheaper class is offered somewhere, a community college might be cheaper in the long run, with homework and such.)</p>
<p>According to HTLAL: “Three to four years at least to learn to read, but you can speak in one year.” But that’s assuming you actually work hard at it. That may be common sense but in school, nobody actually works hard at learning a language, they just sit there and listen and repeat… The past semester when I started speaking and talking to French people online, my French probably improved the most since I started learning the language. So it all just depends on how you use it</p>
<p>You can get a free tutor by doing language exchanges via Skype or some other voice-service. Most Chinese are eager to learn English and eager to teach their language. I got a language exchange/penpal on Skype. I helped her with her English and she helped me with my Mandarin. That was three years ago; she still helps me out today. </p>
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<p>The only difficult part was the time difference.</p>
<p>At least a couple years, especially since it’s Mandarin.</p>
<p>Learn esperanto first.</p>
<p>It’s an easy constructed language, that you can learn in a summer, and it helps you learn other languages in the future.</p>
<p>They did a study of kids in Japan learning English, and those who spent a year learning Esperanto first learned English 2-3 years faster.</p>
<p>The fact that it’s simplistic and direct means that all the different universal grammatical concepts become much more apparent. While it won’t help with building your Mandarin vocabulary, it’ll definitely make grammar a whole lot easier.</p>
<p>It’d be much easier if you were actually in a community with Chinese and talking to them almost 24/7. It doesn’t really help a whole lot if you do it 1 hour a day unless you keep at it and do it while doing other things like chatting online, talking in Chinese, listening in Chinese, etc… You really have to immerse in the culture to learn it much faster.</p>
<p>It took me like 4~5 years to speak, write, and read fluently in a language while living in the country. I played/ talked with the native kids, did an after school activity off base, played the native games and chatted with them, became friends with the natives and texted/ talked on the phone with them, etc… But that was when I was in 1st grade… I still speak the langauge 'cuz of my parents, friends, etc.</p>