Hottiedoggie wrote:How do non native speakers learn chinese? In my country the way chinese is taught is very rigid and because of that it makes the youths here feel that chinese is very mundane. I am one example of them
The same way we learn any other language?
Obviously, you have to spend more time on the writing system than you would for most other languages. For me, that meant a lot of time reviewing flashcards. But people use flashcards to learn languages written in alphabetic scripts as well. Similarly, most Chinese courses in the USA emphasise speaking over reading and writing, but you can find conversation courses for other languages which do the same.
My class textbook started every chapter with a short dialogue in Chinese. We prepared this the evening before and then read it aloud in class. The teacher would correct our pronunciation, then she would go on to explain the grammar. She would ask questions and we'd tried to answer appropriately. As we got more advanced, we would have brief conversations in Chinese amongst ourselves. Eventually, we started completing written assignments as well.
"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons