Rocket Chinese Community

Hey there, why don't you share it again? For everyone who didn't see it on the blog?

That would be lovely.

Ni hao,

I'm Keith from the UK. Seems many of us have a common need to speak Chinese having married into the culture. I have an added incentive in that we have purchased a flat in Guangzhou to which we intend to retire in the (hopefully) not too distant future. I fell in love with my wife and China at first sight! What a beautiful country, rich in culture, diversity and contradiction.

I'm a slow learner and am really struggling with Chinese, so if you have any tips..................

Hi
I am Martin, an Aussie living and working in Switzerland. As a consultant for a Bank I made quite a lot of trips to Sichuan province over the last few years and met some great people.
I was inspired to learn Chinese for many of the reasons already posted. Above all, I find it is a real challenge and quite different to my daytime work. I am lucky to have heaps of help online from colleagues and friends in China, and decided to give RocketC a go to see if I can make better progress with the language.
regards
Martin

HI , I guess this is the proper place to tell and encourage you with my chinese learning journey ,first off ,I got married to a taiwanese wife 4 years ago , but her parents speak "VERY" broken english , so I jumped into MANDARIN chinese immediately learning 10 minutes a week from word lists (effortlessly), and after 3 years I went to Taiwan and said ,ni hao to a few people and my response was *&^%$#@#$%^&^ , then a pause with a blank stare from both of us (a very strange feeling) After 3 years I mastered ni hao and zai jian ."ONLY" ni hao and zai jian??? , I thought I've gone stupid!!! . So Last year I invaded Chapters Bookstore and bought most of their boring chinese books, VERY BORING , TOO BORING so I decided to flip through the internet and found Rocket Chinese , It said 2 month money back guarantee , So I thought yes I'll do it for a month and a half and get my money back, he, he, he. But i got so caught up in the lessons and addicted to the mega audio game(starbucks level addiction) , UGH!!! I didn't have the complete set of 31 grammar lessons with audio in my email, (sigh) yes I was in love , I ran through the course daily up to 6.1 and mega audio with my awaited email GLORIES coming every week, EEEAAAHHH!!! I forgot it was now past 2 months ,,,, oh well i didn't care anyway , I could say long sentences ,Rocket chinese really did launch me past the dought demons of (I cant do this anymore.),,,,,well, Then i took a little break from Rocket and messed around with other programs and heard words from rocket chinese coming out of my wife's mouth on the phone ,I also heard them in these other courses , Rolling cows over dead hills!!!! (dont ask, I dont even know what i just said?),But The words and phrases stuck in my brain from rocket last year,,, Then about 3 or 4 months ago I got laid off. Sad but, WOO HOO , I've been going at it 4-8 hours a day "EVERY DAY" "COME ON" no pain no gain , I Now can comprehend 60% of fast daily spoken chinese and hold basic conversations, I talked on the phone with 3 chinese people, they are absolute beginners of english so about 70% of the conversation was in chinese for 20 minutes YEAH!.....I'm only half way there, But I'm Full of courage now , And DILIGENCE IS THE KEY.....NEVER GIVE UP HOPE , In every arena of life. you just need to find the right path and walk it out till the end, Just watch the dought demon crumble under your feet. bye,,,, Popeye.

Hi Popeye,

this is fantastic to hear. Especially the fact that you used Chinese on the phone, which is the hardest as you can't rely on picking up the meaning of something by looking at facial expressions, gestures etc. Well done!

You will be please to hear that we have just released Rocket Chinese Premium Plus, which is the sequel to Rocket Chinese Premium. With Rocket Chinese Premium Plus you get another Interactive Audio Course, a new series of Grammar and Culture lessons, Bonus Audio lessons, quizzes AND the writing section has video content, so you can watch Lin how she actually draws the characters step by step.

So there is nothing stopping you from understanding the missing 40% as well

All the best

Hello,

My name is Chris and I just got back from my first trip to China! I studied Chinese in high school for two years and tried to study further in college. However, the university I attended shut down the class after no one else signed up for it!

Anyway, I've been working in the film industry as a designer for about 10 yrs and was recently invited to lecture in WuHu and Beijing. It was the absolute best trip ever. As I was on the trip, the Chinese I learned in high school started coming back to me. I spoke a little to my guides on the trip and they were shocked at how well I pronounced what little I remembered. This encouraged me to try and pick up the language again.

I should mention my teacher, Mr.Richard Ayres, who I give all the credit to for my first exposure to the Chinese language.

I've been invited back to teach for a month and REALLY want to learn as much as I can. From my research Rocket Chinese was the best reviewed course and I have to say I LOVE it.

I hope to become fluent some day and look forward to learning from everyone here!

Hi Chris,
that is really great.
Isn't it great to see how much you still remember, even if you haven't used it much.
That's really good.
Keep us updated on your progress.

Hello all,

My name is Harry, and I'm a fourth year university student in Computer Science from the states. After having too much free time on my hands last semester and spending it talking to people from around the world online, I decided I should do something with my life while not studying. It has been an amazing experience learning through this program and being able to use what I know to speak with Chinese native speakers. If all goes well, I will have a chance to practice what I've learned by volunteering to teach English to underpriveleged children in Yangshuo this summer, fingers crossed! Also, I've heard that there are many opportunities in the mainland for native english speakers in technology related fields such as IT. Can anybody confirm this?

Good luck learning everyone.