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Lifestyle Determined toSucceed Four South African students share their experience of learning the Chinese language By Lu Anqi Chinese, a language with a complicated The best advice I would give to four-tone pronunciation system and words that are not made up of letters as in alphabetic systems, is foreign students learning Chinese regarded as difficult to learn. However, despite this would be that they should seize difficulty, more non-native Chinese speakers across the globe are fluent in the language than ever every opportunity to practice, and before. The same is true in Africa. Late in May this year, at watching videos provided on the the Chinese Bridge, Chinese Proficient South African Internet is very helpful. preliminary competition held in Durban, 32 students from universities, colleges and secondary schools throughout South Africa showcased their Chinese Hadebe Nokuthula, A sophomore at the Durban University skills through speeches and talent shows. of Technology While a few of them have studied for years, many are just beginners. How have they picked up the language and what challenges did they encounter along the way to mastering their skills? Some of However, he admitted that Chinese is very dif- these South African students shared their language ficult to learn. “You have to constantly work on and journeys. revise it,” said De Man. “Without doing this you will never really improve.” He noticed that most foreign students don’t have the opportunity to be part of Persistency and dedication