【Tips for learning Mandarin】Success belongs to the persevering!

It is well known that learning a language is a matter of gradual perseverance. Chinese is no exception. Chinese is a more and more useful language in the world and you can benefit a lot from it if you can stick to it, no matter adults or kids. Here I would like to introduce two Chinese proverbs, which can inspire you to begin or to insist on it.

1. 一口吃不成胖子。(yìkŏu chī bù chéng pàngzi.)
One meal won’t make a fat man.
It means that you can’t build up the constitution on one mouthful. Nobody could get instant benefits, and success comes from the regular accumulation.

2. 冰冻三尺,非一日之寒。(bīng dòng sānchĭ, fēi yírì zhī hán.)
It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep.
There is a proverb in English which is universally known:” Rome was not built in a day.” The meaning of these two proverbs is exactly the same. So, keep on working hard and be stick to it. Long-term efforts can contribute to achievement.