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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5042 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 1 of 9 01 November 2013 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||
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大家好! 你好嗎?
I've started learning Mandarin - Traditional Script. The first ten I practised first were 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 Then I was speaking with a friend who was telling me about what he had eaten earlier and he taught me the words for cow/ox, meat and then when combined the word 'beef' 牛 肉 牛 + 肉 = 牛肉 He then asked if I knew any characters that were simplified (as i'd dabbled with Chinese back in school) and I said the word for fish 鱼 which he informed me that the traditional character is 魚 - so just adding the four strokes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5789 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 9 01 November 2013 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Why do you mark Mandarin as your native language in your profile? I am just curious!
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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5042 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 3 of 9 01 November 2013 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Oops, that's a mistake, I must change that - thank you telling me! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3987 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 4 of 9 01 November 2013 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow...Irish is hard enough for me, and it uses the Latin alphabet (at least it does nowadays). I've never liked the way Mandarin sounds, but for some reason I feel I must eventually learn this language...someday, when I work up the courage! Good luck! I'm sure there's plenty of resources available to you and you will go very far. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5042 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 5 of 9 01 November 2013 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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謝謝您 / thank you
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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5042 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 6 of 9 05 November 2013 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought I would post a little 'image' tonight showing a little update. Basically i'm trying to now embrace what i've been told and use as many learning
techniques as possible, so while I was writing them down, I was listening to the words, repeating them them I put them into a mindmap. Mindmapping has always been a useful learning mechanism for me, it used to help me a lot with exams back in school. 
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4386 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 7 of 9 05 November 2013 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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The basics is always a good place to start by reciting the numbers, days of the week, time, etc. Living in this part
of the world I grew up around people who speak English. About 8 month ago decided to get back to learning Chinese. I still have trouble remembering some of the characters but once I know what they sound like I can easily find them using an English-Chinese dictionary or by Pinyin phonetics. Relying on phrasebooks, going to class to learn grammar & vocabulary is fine as a starter but to get you up to the conversation level you need to start listening to radio podcasts, watch whatever TV programs available online. Instead of relying on the materials in a classroom, I've made several lists on my computer including all the Pinyin sounds from A-Z, a list of Chinese vocabulary I come across already over 100 words & phrases, Chinese 4- character proverbs and classifiers. Like the French le/la/les or German der/die/das in front of a noun the Chinese use classifiers. In 6 months I have watched at least half-dozen movies, TV drama series some with subtitles and some don't. Right now I'm watching a lot of shows from Singapore. I did come across a few good TV series from Taiwan and Mainland China like 大學生了沒 documenting the lives of university students. There are only certain # hours in a day. Instead of watching TV series in English, you devote more time watching the ones in your target language. The reality TV show I like which got axed after the 4th season was: 中国达人秀, the Chinese equivalent of Britain's Got Talent / America's Got Talent. A cartoon from China I got addicted to was 大耳朵图图 featuring a cute little boy and his family. You basically find videos that are interesting and run through places a few times where you have a hard time picking up words and phrases. Doing the same with a textbook you'd get so bored you wouldn't get anywhere. I'll be heading back to studying French shortly. Hopefully I'll be pushing my level up close to my English and Chinese. Language classes that don't get you to the conversation level is a waste of time... Edited by shk00design on 05 November 2013 at 8:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5042 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 8 of 9 26 January 2014 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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After being told the delightful news that I received the job application to teach in
Taiwan and that I'll moving there in nine days, I've resumed with Chinese Mandarin - Traditional Script. I've been spending the start of the week recapping on what I had learnt so far and then adding onto what I knew by learning new words. This week I've learnt the months of the year: 一月 二月 三月 四月 五月 六月 七月 八月 九月 十月 十一月 十二月 Plus the names of my direct family: 媽媽 māmā 爸爸 bàba 哥哥 gēgē 姊姊 ---> the term for older sister (jiějie) is written as 姐姐 on Mainland 嫂 sǎo - meaning sister-in-law 姪女 - zhíniǚ - meaning my 2 nieces 1 person has voted this message useful |
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