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| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4769 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 4 29 July 2013 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering if any of you have words of wisdom to internalize and improve word
order in a new language, quicker or smarter ways that is. I am now in the stage of Mandarin where I have to begin forming independent sentences on my own, and not just memorized stock phrases or very short utterances. While I know most of the rules of how to properly construct Chinese basic sentences, questions, etc, at the time of speaking it is still difficult. While I have no concerns with my progress, actually of late I feel more comfortable, if there are specific techniques or exercises any of you recommend to accelerate the process, or at least to help get a complete grip on the order, I would like to know. I still have some trouble at times with very long German sentences that include multiple verbs in compound tense settings or in the passive/past subjunctive, or have prefixes or reflexives, or any combination thereof. I know the rules and when writing I rarely make mistakes anymore, but maybe I could use the same principles for Chinese here. I have not seen many questions like this, maybe because the only real answer is "practice, practice, practice, then repeat, repeat, repeat, then review the practice and repeat", as I like to say. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5702 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 29 July 2013 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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At this point, it seems that I'll try to build acronyms to memorize some Mandarin grammar rules.
However, I'm on a very early stage and still neither know much, nor need to memorize much about it as well. I'm a big fan of memorization methods, because of the very simple fact that I know how well they work for me. It's working once more for my Chinese characters study. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5010 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 4 30 July 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Rather than "practice, practice, practice" I would prefer to say "input, input, input" as how can you practice if you don't know or understand what you are practicing? Input needs to be consistent and correct, which is why I prefer audio input as with written input the reader is liable to read incorrectly. The correct word order will gradually build in your mind with enough input, I think. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 4950 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 4 of 4 30 July 2013 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I second Andrew_C's comment. Input, input, input. Forget practice, practice, practice. With enough comprehensible input you will develop a feeling for what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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