User:Huang Laoshi (Avinmt)

Who am I? Why am I here in Wikipedia?

Briefly, a Chinese wants to make Mandarin simple for non-Chinese to learn, wants to give my answers on this area.

I had been working in facilitating international business for years, Sep. 2017, a foreign friend asked me to be the Chinese tutor for his boy. After more than a month's struggle, the boy told his father and me, "I give up, I will never learn Chinese, it's too hard..." I felt so frustrated, I had tried my best. I asked myself, is that anybody non-Chinese feel Chinese is not hard to learn? Why Chinese has to be hard to learn? How to make Chinese not hard to learn? Exactly, make Chinese simple, simple to be learned, simple to be used, to bring Chinese back to a common language, to read, to listen, to speak, not to classify who is better who is not.

"Make Chinese Simple", that's what I want to do, what I am going to do. It must be fun.

I keep thinking of it, make Mandarin simple, is that necessary?

I review the foreigners I have dealt with, who know so so little about China, mainly fed passively by western media. What is the biggest barrier? Not the border, not the Great Firewall, it's the culture. What is the best tool to break through? Master the language that carries the culture. But it's a common sense that Mandarin is "too hard to learn", to fight against this point, make it simple is a definitely necessary.

So I made up my decision, to dedicate myself on facilitating foreigner to learn Mandarin. Wikipedia is a perfect place to spread knowledge.