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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes  Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 89 20 December 2012 at 7:32am | IP Logged |
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I am going to be taking part in the 2013 TAC and I have to say I am very excited by the prospect of doing this! My
language of choice is Mandarin. I have been studying on and off for a few months and so my mandarin is only very basic, but hopefully through this year that will change! I am currently going through Assimil, and I am up to lesson 39, although I haven't been doing it on a daily basis as I really should have been. I also have Pimsleur and I did the first 4 or 5 lessons, and I may try and do a couple of these lessons a week along with Assimil. New vocabulary will be going into Anki. Once I am done with Assimil i'm not sure what I will move on to, I have the colloquial chinese book/audio, Chinese made easier 1-3 (although the characters are traditional rather than standard which is a slight drawback), and various other resources. I guess I will decide what to do next when I get to that point. My wife is half Chinese and learnt Chinese from a young age, although she was taught by a teacher from Taiwan and has never actually lived in China, and so there are differences in her accent and the choice of words she would use than I think I will find in mainland China resources, but still this is a blessing. I am also going to be trying to learn the hanzi, and I will be doing this initially by looking at the most common hanzi and using Anki. I don't plan on taking on any other languages this year, but if I did have time then I would delve into a bit of Cantonese. I'd just rather wait so that I can focus on Mandarin and not have the issue of confusing vocabulary and tones at this early stage. Edited by js6426 on 03 January 2013 at 7:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 2 of 89 20 December 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
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Focusing on one language first sounds like a good plan. I did that with Korean for this year's TAC and definitely don't regret it - I don't think I would have made this much progress otherwise.
Looking forward to studying Mandarin together and reading your language journey! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 89 23 December 2012 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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Had a few really busy days so not got much done. Today I did Assimil 41, busted out all my Anki and tried to learn
5 new hanzi. I am debating what to do about the hanzi because I am only learning to write them at the moment and not spending much time on learning to read outside of that. So I can now write around 150, but I can't yet read many more than that. I have all the hanzi for the words in the anki deck as I learn new vocab, but I don't really concentrate on them. I may start paying more attention so that my reading gets better and then simply let the writing come as an extension of that. I also spent some time looking for podcasts which I have on as I sleep, as I have been reading some articles on AJATT the past couple of days and i'm interested in trying it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4666 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 4 of 89 23 December 2012 at 3:12pm | IP Logged |
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Hello js6246,
Best of luck with Mandarin. Just a suggestion if you are looking for more course materials. There's an excellent Chinese bookstore in Bangkok called Nan Mee Books, very near the Surasak BTS station on Sathorn Road. It's quite a prominent building, you have to walk through the stationery section on the ground floor and go up a floor to get to the books (a bit like Khmer stationery/book shops, actually!) They have a lot of textbooks, dictionaries and other materials for learners from Chinese publishers. Once you've got a grounding in Mandarin, using this kind of materials is the way to go, in my opinion. Quality is quite high and some of the stuff is really challenging, often it's intended to be used by exchange students at Chinese universities. Prices are marked up a bit - they calculate 10 baht for every yuan, so a book priced at 15 yuan would be 150 baht, or 5 dollars roughly. Still, they are usually a pretty good deal, I bought many books there when I was actively studying Mandarin. There are other places to get Chinese books in Bangkok, for instance the Kinokuniya in Paragon Mall has a few shelves. But for study materials Nan Mee is the best, to my knowledge. I don't know if this is any use to you, but if you do happen to be in Bangkok, take a look. It's good that your wife can speak some Mandarin. The differences between Taiwan and the mainland in varieties of Mandarin are quite minor, you can ignore them as a learner IMO. Again, best of luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 89 26 December 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged |
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Thanks viedums, that's really helpful. Next time I am in Bangkok I will definitely check it out!
Assimil 43 done today and I have also started going through 'Remembering the simplified hanzi', I have done the first two lessons so far and started an anki deck with these hanzi in. Loaded up anki with the new vocab from my assimil lessons, and some other bits and pieces that have been through my wordlists. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 6 of 89 28 December 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged |
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28/12/12 - Assimil 45 done. Remembering the hanzi chapter 3 studied briefly, but I need to come back to this as
I don't feel that I spent enough time on it. Anki all done. Put up a few post-it notes of various vocab around the house, simple things like my wardrobe, curtains etc. Tried this for the first time a few days ago and it worked pretty well, so tomorrow I will increase the number of post-its I have dotted around the house! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 89 31 December 2012 at 4:11am | IP Logged |
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31/12/12 - Assimil 48 done. Excited as I only have one more lesson of Assimil vol 1 then I start doing the second
wave along with vol 2. I feel I have learnt a lot through vol 1, although every day I am looking for new vocabulary elsewhere also (dictionary/iphone chinese app etc) as I don't have enough to put through my word lists. I learnt on average 20 words a day for the past 5 days as I had a week off from work, and so I am quite pleased with myself! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5130 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 8 of 89 31 December 2012 at 6:52am | IP Logged |
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Hi js6426, good luck with your Mandarin studies, and I'm looking forward to being on a team with you! I'm curious
to know what brought you to Cambodia, and how comes you speak Khmer? I've got a friend from the Khmer speaking region of Thailand (Sisaket province), but he's illiterate in Khmer. I might start with Khmer at some point in the future, because there has been a lot of cultural and linguistic exchange with Thai... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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