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| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 49 of 107 01 March 2012 at 1:41am | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYje6_rKrE
Here is my video. I'll be finishing with the final review lesson in volume 1 tomorrow! Honestly with my limited vocab I couldn't say much haha, but I'm curious to see how much more I will be able to expand on my thoughts on language learning after the next 50 days passes by. I'd appreciate some constructive criticism! Edited by BobbyE on 01 March 2012 at 1:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4694 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 50 of 107 01 March 2012 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations especially on being able to avoid what I have seen most Chinese learners here do. When they try to speak they either move ther fingers for the tones or do it with their head, sometimes I feel like they are practicing to be a conductor!
You also seem to be trying to say words rather than just spit out the individual tones, I feel this is a good thing. I have seen the results of those who try to learn to speak via just spitting out single tones, they come out as very robotic and are usually less understood than those who say words but with bad tones. While I am early into studies myself so I can not say too much, I hope the above that I have observed from other learners here who have several years behind them was helpfull. One of those guys I am thinking of has been here ten years and studided conventionally. It is hard for him to be understaood, both his pronunciation and tones are off. Whether that is a plus for assimil type courses of a sign of terrible language schools/teachers is your call :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 51 of 107 01 March 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks eggcluck. I think when you try to speak based on how you've heard native speakers
speak, you avoid the problems of isolated tone and using your body to remember the tones. Instead, correct intonation becomes more of a side-effect of correct practice. Usually when there is a conflict between how I remember the word sounding and how I remember the tones in the pinyin, the sound I remember comes out being the right one. Thanks again for the encouragement. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 52 of 107 02 March 2012 at 5:08am | IP Logged | ||
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NIce job! Keep it up!
The Table15VT comment on you tube was me! You have inspired me- I need to put up a Mandarin video! Edited by liddytime on 02 March 2012 at 5:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 53 of 107 02 March 2012 at 8:45am | IP Logged | ||
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liddytime, cool man thanks again for your kind words. I look forward to seeing your
Mandarin video! Is Mandarin an active language for you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6222 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 54 of 107 03 March 2012 at 5:13am | IP Logged | ||
Heh heh! Yeah, you inspired me.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVocXZTnt4 This is my attempt at Mandarin after 2 months. Hopefully these videos will get better in the future!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JayR9 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4693 days ago 155 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English* | Message 55 of 107 03 March 2012 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry for the delay in replying, I am currently using Pimsluer but am thinking of getting Assimil even more so now after watching your video.
Very well indeed and thank you for uploading it for us to see and get some encouragement. Nice work. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| smarg Newbie United States Joined 4793 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 56 of 107 03 March 2012 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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As a fellow newbie Mandarin learner, I am really happy that I was able to understand everything except for "mo wan le"? I haven't come across that phrase yet. Not sure if I can speak like you yet, but hopefully getting there. Am extremely encouraged to see your progress. Thanks for uploading.
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