How Should I Learn Chinese?

Q: I am looking at learning chinese as I think, like most of the people here, that it is going to be very useful in the near future. Do you have any tips to give me on how to start learning it? I was thinking about getting a PC Based method (online) but I don't really know which one. or maybe a classes. I live in london so if any one has a good place to go to take class it will be cool.

A:I've been teaching Chinese for more than 4 year in NJ. The best way of learning Chinese is one-to-one learning. I have a student who can perfectly pronounce Chinese, started with me as a beginner. He is an American. So find sonebody locally, and ask for the private tutoring will help a lot. If you want to learn Chinese from on-line courses yourself, I would like to recommend a nice Chinese language teaching site www.ChineseOn.net to you. ChineseOn.net has online Chinese teachers, and all the preliminary courses of "Standard Chinese", "Chinese" and "Daily Dialog" have been approved by authoritative

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