It is your mind that makes ... possible

"It is the mind that makes the body."

~~ Sojourner Truth (~1797 - 1883)


It is your mind that makes you think!

It is your mind that makes you learn!

It is your mind that makes you like or dislike learning Chinese!

If you mind keep on thinking that learning Chinese is hard, it is very hard!

If you mind keep on thinking that learning Chinese is useless, it will make your learning fruitless! It is useless to learn and acquire broken Chinese. As a result, using broken Chinese will not be that useful!

If you mind keeps on thinking that learning Chinese is boring, it will be easy for you to doze off whenever you look at Chinese characters or open a Chinese book! You will find whatever in Chinese, be it text or muti-media, turn you off!

No one can change your mind, sometime not even you yourself.

Your mind set is set through a long process of conditioning.

It may start long before you were born. You maybe conditioned by family, parents, living environment and finally, your own mind set.

If your family don't speak the language and do not respect people who speak that language, you will learn it that way.

If your parents can speak the language, yet try not to speak to you in that language, you do not acquire it naturally as a mother tongue and it will become a foreigne language to you!

If you do not have childhood friends who use the language to play game with you, you will not be able to link that language with fun and nostalgic memory in your younger age.

If you do not like the learning from the beginning and continue to dislike it, you are conditioned by other unconsciously and internalized it yourself consciously or unconsciously.


What can you do to help yourself?

First, change your mind set.

One thought at a time and tell yourself that you are in control, not your family, not your parents, not your environment, not even your old mind set...


Is it possible?

If there is a will, there is a way!

The way is up to you to Choose!

No one can force you, though you learnt that others can influence or condition you, yet utimately, if you choose to walk your own way, you can create a new path!

Learning Chinese is possible if you want to, at any age!


Dexterine Ho

Notes: If Mr Lee Kuan Yew, at the age of 85 now can learn it some years back and still improving his everyday, what makes you think that it too late to start now.