Mandarin is the modern standard Chinese. Beijing phonetics are regarded as the standard pronunciation. It is popular in China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese as a common language, an official, teaching, media and other standard. Now let’s see some ways to improve your spoken Chinese.

1. Pronunciation should be clear and have cadence. Such as “an & ang”, “en & eng”, “in vs ing”, “z,c,s & zh,ch,sh”  ....



2. Following with the tape recorder.  There is a research shows that it's one of the best way to practice mandarin. But learner have to pay attention to methods and follow with the standard one.Because China have many dialects, every place of Chinese people speak mandarin is a little different, so be sure to follow with the standard. And also its a good way to help yourself find your own shortcomings and correct it.




3. Develop a good habits to speak mandarin in anywhere and anytime. Sometimes it is much better than deliberate practice. Because the casual remark are the really things you master. So when you are going to talk with people in daily life, please speak mandarin.

4. With“news broadcast”or “TV show”to practice

We need to seize every opportunity to speak mandarin. For instance,there are a lot of different News channels,Chinese films and TV series. You can choose some you are interested in ,and everyday only need half hour to do it. It could happened in bus,taxi,airport,subway or the night before you go to sleep. Because the main characters in the TV speak Chinese normally are standard. This way is not only can practices listening,and also can learn their mouth.

5. Try your best to correctyour wrong pronunciation. For example ,some foreigners are very difficult to pronounce”r ”,”e”,”ü”....  So the only way you need to do is to imitate the correct sound and repeat it a lot in practice,after you get it then push yourself to keep the right one .

 

6. Creating a good atmosphere to speak Chinese. A lot of foreigner said every timethey try to speak mandarin with Chinese ,but they always reply it in English. So you have to bring all of you friends ,family or colleagues speak Mandarin.  

7. Last point and also is the most important one . You need to be confidence,be not afraid the mistake of grammar or pronunciation.

 

All of these preparations are very important, but less important than your actions. As the saying goes: "Easier said than done”. If you hope to improve yourself , you'd better talk to others.The more you speak, the faster you improve.If you are ready for these, and speak a lot , I believe that everyone can use the fluent Chinese to communication.