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| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 81 of 107 19 July 2012 at 7:24am | IP Logged |
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It feels so nice to not be doing learning material anymore. I will definitely revisit
some learning stuff later, but right now it is a breath of fresh air to just be learning new words and stuff via native material. 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 82 of 107 18 September 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
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After a few months on native material, I'm back on learning material using ChinesePOD. I
am using Audacity to extract to the dialogues. Doing 8 or 12 dialogues a day. I learned a lot of words from native material and accustomed my ear to fast speech and a high density of new words. In effect, these simple dialogues are a breeze and the useful everyday vocabularly is great. I need to prepare for testing at my university, so I am handwriting characters from the dialogue. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5159 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 83 of 107 18 September 2012 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
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BobbyE, I sort of took two steps behind. I took one book in French called "Parlez chinois en 40 leçons" - Langues pour tous, and I'm reviewing a lot though I've retained no more than 10% from what I had studied in the previous books. I'm also studying from Dr. Alan Hoenig's book but I want to pick Fun with Chinese Characters next, together with a textbook which I don't know if it will be a beginner's or an intermediate one.
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| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 84 of 107 25 September 2012 at 5:55am | IP Logged |
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Right on Expugnator, how do you feel about your progress thus far?
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5159 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 85 of 107 25 September 2012 at 12:17pm | IP Logged |
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I feel that I can handle quit a bit of basic situations but in textbooks I've had to deal
with a lot of vocabulary that isn't that helpful at first and which won't stick into my head easily. I get tones most of the times right and I have a good listening. I sometimes have trouble with more complex sentences but overall it's vocabulary that is missing the most. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6372 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 86 of 107 25 September 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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The last time I looked at Chinesepod there were dialog only versions of their podcasts. It might be worth it to subscribe and download a bunch of those instead of cutting them up yourself.
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| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 87 of 107 18 October 2012 at 2:28am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Eric, i'll look into that. Right now I'm only using the lessons that they used to
have available publicly. Exp, that sounds good man. I think I'm right in the same place. The grammar is relatively simple, it's the vast unknown vocab that is the rough part. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 88 of 107 17 March 2013 at 7:50am | IP Logged |
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I finally made a progress video in Mandarin.
Now I'm using Open For Business, a textbook for Chinese economic terms. It is a collection of essays on China's economic system and comes with audio. I think it is one of the best courses I've used. I'm also using ChinesePod, and the occasional native- level novel. The head of the Chinese department at my university informally evaluated my level as Intermediate. Unfortunately, I still need to take the third and last course in the 100- level series to get credit. The class will be incredibly easy and frustrating. Progress Video YouTube 1 person has voted this message useful |
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