The Global Times – Loraine Lu
“The most frequent question I get from my foreign students who are learning Chinese is, “How come Chinese is so difficult a foreign language? Will I ever be able to speak it?” It’s not a secret among the Chinese teachers in our university that the main purpose of the very first classes with your new students is to build their confidence. The most usual case is that we face a bunch of young students from all over the world who, while excited about living and studying in China, are still extremely nervous about learning the “legendary” Chinese language.”(more)