如何自学中文：准备工作（How To Learn Chinese By Yourself：Preparation) 1.你需要课本。 课本非常重要，课本的质量更加重要。我认为一本优秀的教材必须符合以下几个特征： 1）.双语对照版；2）.内有单词音标和相关难点注释；3）.必须配有标准语音材料；4）.适当的练习题配置及讲解。 1.you need textbooks. Textbooks are very important, so is their quality.I believe that an excellent textbook could be qualified by these characteristics below: 1).A billingual version(native language and the learners' native language); 2).the vocabulary and its phonetic symbol; 3).Audio material for text and dialogues.4). exercise & solution to exercise. 2.你需要字典 1).双语字典（最好是自己的母语和中文的对照版）； 2).如果你学习了第二外语，也可以尝试准备一本相应的中文对照第二外语的词典，帮助学习； 3).查字典很重要，但是不能总查字典（稍后会给大家讲解为什么）。 2.You need dictionaries. 1) A bilingual version.(better be your native and the Chinese version) 2).If you've mastered a foreign language, you could aslo try an extra biligual version dictionary. 3).It's essential to a take a look into the dictionary when you find a new character, but it depends(I'll tell you why later). 3. 如果没有语言环境，创造一个。 我所说没有语言环境，指的是可能无法跟一个外国人进行有效的接触。那么你可以这样做： 1.像个和尚那样学习； 中国有句俗语，叫和尚念经，只有你读准音标、理解单词、读懂文章、能够准确转述，将听说读写融为一体，才能真正掌握一门语言。但是前提是，你必须要在有限的资料里，多花一些功夫，打下坚实的基础。 3. If you don't have an environment, creat one. By 'you don't have an environment, I mean, that you may not even be able to contact with a foreigner efficiently. Here's what you could do: 1).to learn like a monk. There's saying, like a monk chants. If you really want to master a language, you have to pronounce corretly, to know each word fully, to comprehend each line thoroughly, to paraphrase in your own word accurately.And the premise is to practise more within the limited texts in order to lay a strong foundation. As we all know, the monks are capable of momerizing huge volumes of Buddhist texts，here what I'm saying is not about the rotation learning method but the wholist-analytic cognitive method. Imagine, when you look back, it's so obvious that once the most difficult mathematical problem become easy suddenly.Why? Let me tell you, when you have a whole view on the textbooks you're about to learn, you just follow the audio materials, to listen and repeat each line, to find the inner rhythm, meanwhile you write them down, to put all the work in one move. Then you know why.