12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese

is Going to Show You How You Can Become Fluent in Mandarin Chinese,

Dear Language Learner,

   Have you just about had enough?

   Are you tired yet of slogging through Chinese lessons that never seem to stick? Are you weary of tutors and teachers that nag and browbeat and push you at a pace you can't handle? Are you frustrated at pouring your time and energy into vocabulary and grammar that you don't understand and - worst of all - never seem to have any use for?

   There is a better way. You don't have to go through every day living like this.

   You can replace the mean teacher's bullying with the cheerful and friendly cooperation of an eager language helper. You can replace the hours and hours of monotonous, tiring vocabulary memorization with time out on the street enjoying fun, stimulating and challenging interaction with native speakers. You rest your glazed-over eyes, and put the lifeless grammar book on the shelf, and use your sharp mind and your well-tuned ears to understand the complexities of Chinese in real-life, natural, stress free situations...

…That Will Produce Real, Lasting Results for You!

   My name is Bryan Todd, and I spent four amazing years in Mainland China living and interacting with real people, dealing with all the hassles of daily life - all the while learning Mandarin Chinese completely and totally from scratch.

   And I mean totally. The day I got off the plane, I literally knew nothing more than "thank you." I couldn't even say "hello" in Chinese. People would say Hi to me and I could only reply with "Thanks!"

   Those first few months were tough. I did so many things so totally wrong, so totally backwards. I tried studying out of children's books. I tried the classes with the teacher who just got angry and frustrated all the time and made me feel like a dunce day in and day out. I tried learning umpteen new words a day and cramming my brain with new material for hours and hours until I collapsed into bed with a headache from all the exhausting work.

   Worse still, I'd get up the next day and do it all again, reading until my eyes ached, scratching out Mandarin Chinese characters until my fingers turned red from the soreness and my wrist was killing me, memorizing from off a page until I was dizzy from the exertion.

   But worst of all, I'd go outside and fall to pieces trying to use any of it. I had studied so much that my brain was just this big lump of constipated information, and I could push and heave and grunt until the cows came home and still get nothing to come out.

   Nothing. All this tireless work had done me not one bit of good.

Then One Afternoon It All Changed.

   It began with a visit to a good friend.

   I was back in the States for a few days and got invited over to my old classmate's house for lunch and conversation. He was nothing more than a regular, plain old American just like me. But he had lived overseas and become fluent in multiple languages, and was now teaching students from all over the world to speak fluent English.

   Even if they hardly spoke a word of it when they started!

   He sat down and showed me a method for acquiring the first fundamentals of a new language, that right then and there had me speaking ten new sentences in German with perfect understanding in just nineteen minutes.

   (I'd never studied a word of German before. This was wild!)

   This method is so unbelievably kindergarten simple that people actually laugh at me when I show it to them. A method that, amazingly, works regardless of the language you're learning. Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Hindi, Swahili, Inuit - you name it, it does the job in just minutes.

   I felt like I had a new lease on life!

And Then It Picked Up Even More Speed

with Two Revolutionary Concepts

from Two Revolutionary Books.

   I came back to China ready to dive back into the language. I had a whole new approach for language-learning under my belt and the confidence to make it work.

   But then it got better.

   I stumbled across a common little book used in China for teaching English. I was amazed to discover that the author had taken and expanded on the entire fundamental concept behind my friend's simple 19-minute method, and created a whole new philosophy for how to learn a language. This made so unbelievably much sense, and yet it was so unbelievably simple - I didn't know whether to believe what I was reading.

   Amazingly, this philosophy could be summed up in just three short sentences. I had never seen anything like it.

   But then it got even better still!

   I happened upon yet another book. This time it was a book that taught Mandarin Chinese, written by a linguist from France, of all places. He showed me that I had been trying to master Chinese but was struggling so much because I had been trying to learn all the wrong vocabulary, the wrong way.

   He taught an old, yet revolutionary principle. I discovered that you can master nearly 70% of the language while actually knowing only one-tenth of it!

   Finally, it was like having wind beneath my wings. I now had the critical basics of a lifetime strategy for mastering Mandarin Chinese - and not just Chinese, but any language I might ever want or need to learn at any time in the future.

And It Took Off from There!

   Now my work became a tenth as tiresome and twice as productive. My sessions with my language helper became empowering, constructive and useful. My ears started understanding what I was hearing people say around me.

   And I would go outside every afternoon and see and hear use all the new words and expressions that I had studied that very day.

   I knew that every calorie I was burning and every minute I was spending was being used in the most effective, most productive way possible.

   And in due time, by following these two powerful concepts, along with just a few others, I became fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

"The 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese"

   And now I'm taking these simple yet revolutionary concepts and I'm teaching them to you - with the exact same spirit that my good friend and the authors of these two books first taught them to me - in an entertaining and easy-to-read guide called The 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese.

   This is a PDF e-book that's easy to download, easy to understand, and something you can take in small bites and use every single day. It comes complete with illustrations and examples, charts and checkpoints, and much more.

   The 12 Golden Rules deals with all of the most critical principles that you need in order to truly understand and master the art of language learning. On every page in it I interact with key concepts in Mandarin Chinese language and culture, and I teach you the specific strategies you need in order to get your arms around the tough and challenging skill of speaking Chinese well.

   But the most enjoyable part of it is, The 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese is loaded front to back with real-life, personal stories from the street. Serious stories and funny stories. Good stories and bad stories. Stories that make you snicker and stories that make you groan.

   Stories of real battles with learning Mandarin Chinese that will inspire you to press on and master the language.

So Why 12 Rules?

   I give you 12 rules because in Chinese thought, 12 is the number of completion, the number of perfection. It represents the full cycle of living in all of its stages.

   Which is exactly what The 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese is about.

   You see, the key is not to try to acquire Mandarin Chinese merely off the pages of a textbook. Learning Chinese is a whole way of life. It's about a new approach to interacting with the world around you. It's about doing everything in its most natural sequence. It's about how you start with what matters most, you master the minimum and you use it everywhere, every day, all the time. And it means that you have a winning strategy, and a set of clear and unwavering goals.

   I call these "12 Rules," even though my goal is actually to get you to break rules, defy the status quo and be unconventional, fresh and contrarian.

   Here is what the 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese will teach you: 

• The Pareto Principle and the jealously-guarded secret to effectiveness in any pursuit: How you will learn more by not giving equal time and equal importance to everything

• How your dictionary may become your worst enemy

• Be an adult, learn like a kid:  Why you need to stop memorizing, quit translating, and toss out your vocabulary lists and flash cards

• The 100% dummy-proof trick that you can use to get yourself motivated and stay motivated

• The subtle but powerful difference between someone who has spent years living in the country learning off the street, versus someone who became proficient learning language in a classroom.

• Why your brain is like a pot of rice - and why learning slower is better than learning faster, and learning less is always better than learning more

• Why what people tell you is correct Mandarin Chinese, and what people say themselves, are often two completely different things

• The single most frustrating fact about your Chinese environment that nobody will ever warn you of, help you with, or even mention

• Why your own natural learning style - visual, auditory, etc. - is ultimately irrelevant

• The priceless Chinese “repeat” trick: a useful cultural idiosyncrasy that they won't tell you about in language classes

• The first and greatest major hurdle that you will overcome:  Once you've reached this special "tipping point," your Mandarin Chinese learning will suddenly hit a whole new pace

• The biggest lie that people are probably telling you about all those so-called shortcuts to faster learning

"So, Bryan, Are You Going to Teach Me Mandarin Chinese?"

   No, not me. I'm just a plain white kid from Nebraska.

   What I'm giving you is not a Chinese textbook. It's not a course in Mandarin Chinese speech, or reading, or writing. It's about how you learn a language best.

   Sure, I can speak Chinese just fine, and I'll talk you through a whole host of curious factoids and nuances of the Mandarin Chinese language and culture that may stump and perplex you. But I'm not going to be teaching you Chinese myself.

   I'll be teaching you how you can go out and become proficient in Mandarin Chinese in your environment, faster and with less struggle than you would ever imagine, simply by following these 12 Golden Rules.

   You'll learn how to manage your time and your resources more powerfully. You'll learn tips and tricks to surround yourself with media that teach you. You'll learn what pitfalls to avoid and what hurdles to overcome to speak and understand better. You'll learn how to master more by doing less.

To Get Your "12 Golden Rules"

   These are revolutionary principles. People will spend their entire lives struggling through a foreign language and never learn them. Others will pay hundreds, even thousands of dollars to buy books and tapes and CD's and DVD's and hire tutors and attend conferences ... and never learn these simple principles.

   But I won't charge you hundreds of dollars for these insights. You'll get 12 Golden Rules of Mastering Chinese with its powerful techniques and concepts, charts, illustrations and checklists, all for just $29.00 U.S.

   To get your downloadable copy of 12 Golden Rules, simply Click Here.

   This is simple, straightforward, clear and concise advice and knowledge on how you can acquire Chinese, that will save you time in becoming proficient, save you stress, exertion and worry in expending effort to try to learn things that you'll never need and never even remember, and save you money on low-quality books, unhelpful tapes and CD's, and misguided tutors and teachers.

Oh Wait, There's Another Goodie:

   To add more fun and levity to this whole experience, I'm also going to give you completely FREE the amusing e-article I wrote while living in China:  "‘Fried Chicken Chest’ and Other Foibles:  Rare and Exotic Specimens from the Wild, Wild World of Chinglish."

   You'll enjoy rib-busting anecdotes and side-splitting samples of Chinese-Style English from all over China. In it you'll discover: 

• How a certain soup was confused with foot disease

• The odd and eye-catching English words & phrases that end up on people’s clothes

• How one misspelled word can turn a menu on its head

• The right turn of phrase that can evoke mental pictures you’d never have imagined

• What the powers-that-be are scrambling to do about it in Beijing before the Olympics hit in 2008

• Why you can blame it all on the dictionary

   All of this is in easy-to-use PDF format, and it's free, as my way of simply saying "Thank you" for starting into these crucial 12 Golden Rules.

My Solid, No-Baloney, Money-Back GUARANTEE

   Nobody will shed a tear for you if you blow your whole annual budget on lousy language classes, screwed up textbooks, stilted and useless recordings and uncooperative, troublesome language helpers.

   No bookstore will guarantee the effectiveness of the books you buy. Nobody will guarantee the tapes you get. No language helper or classroom instructor will give you your money back if you don't learn anything.

   But I will.

   If within 6 weeks you don't find yourself already hearing and speaking noticeably better Mandarin Chinese with less effort and less frustration, then just tell me and I will give you a prompt and cheerful, full refund.

   If you don't speak the language with more ease, more confidence and more accuracy - because you've mastered these 12 principles first - then I will refund your money.

   And as demand for this grows, my inexpensive, fully-backed $29.00 price will be going up.

   Click Here to get your instant-download copy of 12 Golden Rules to Mastering Chinese and "Fried Chicken Chest." You'll never regret it.

To Your Success,

Bryan Todd

p.s. You can certainly continue to slog through Mandarin Chinese the old way - the harder way - or you can take up the 12 Golden Rules and make the whole learning experience infinitely easier, infinitely more natural, and much, much faster!

  Click Here to start today!

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