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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5883 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 121 of 128 30 November 2013 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||
I've been looking for something about dinosaurs in Mandarin, because this is the only thing my son doesn't care to see without the Portuguese speech. There're a few videos on this line, but so far none has caught his interest. Anyway, I'll have much more free time during the next months and hope to advance faster and deeper. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 122 of 128 17 December 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm cross-posting this at your log because I thought it would be useful.
I usually start my posts by saying I'm glad I finally finished this or that book, because towards the end they were very boring or adding up too miuch vocabulary. This time is different: I'm actually sorry that the book has come to an end, as it was so great, nice to use, nice formatting, really up-to-date, comprehensive, entertaining but down-to-earth vocabulary. The texts were really of practical use. No wonder it is from the same author as the great Méthode 90, but this one is even better. I saw again lots of words I had seen at Méthode 90, but this time context was clearer and texts made much more sense. I felt like I was in China actually speaking Chinese! I got to know a lot about life in China and I had important insights into Business Chinese, just in case I decide to focus on it once I've reached B2. As a matter of fact, this is just what can be said of not so good about this book: it didn't bring me to B2, far from it, but then I didn't learn it intensively, just like I didn't do it with Méthode 90. It is also a bit annoying that once a word shows up in the notes it no longer gets its pinyin in the next times. I'd rather have this pinyin for inforcement. That said, I'm glad there is both pinyin and translation for all texts because that allows me to check pinyin while in doubt and each time I reinforce it a bit more. I'm really not dependent on pinyin, and I rather focus on associating character and meaning, but it is much more practical to have pinyin easily accessible for some doubts. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5883 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 123 of 128 19 December 2013 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks a lot, Expugnator. I'll really think about this book. Besides, I've been reading some not so nice opinions about Boya's grammatical explanations. Indeed, I've tried it myself a bit and Boya really doesn't seem to be an obvious choice. Anyway, as you said, none of these methods are going to lead us to B2 by themselves. It means that one needs to find other ways to improve. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 124 of 128 19 December 2013 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I asked about Boya to a friend at another group and she says it really isn't that nice
and, following my past resources, I could stay away from it. I'm currently using Everyday Chinese Fables and Anedoctes and enjoying it so far, but I may get back to another textbook after that, just an intermediate one. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4445 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 125 of 128 19 December 2013 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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In order to be successful learning any language you need to devote a lot of time listening, not just read off
books. We as language learners have all read children stories similar to Aesop's Fables. In order to progress to the next level we have to start watching videos, listen to radio broadcasts on a language to pick up on basic conversations. At first we would pick up a few words here and there. After a while we would start picking up more and more of the conversation. For learning Chinese you can be watching videos or listen to pop songs from China, Taiwan or Singapore. Edited by shk00design on 15 February 2014 at 6:26pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5883 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 126 of 128 22 January 2014 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been on vacation, which for some people might mean more free time for language studies, but not for me. My almost 4 y.o. son wanted to be around all the time and I'm glad he did so.
Anyway, I've continued with my SRSing, but not much beyond that. Starting tomorrow, I hope to be back, but next week will be mostly a revision period. PS: Changed name to include our TAC'14 Team, and a link to our Team Thread on the first message of this log. Edited by Flarioca on 22 January 2014 at 4:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JayR9 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4701 days ago 155 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English* | Message 127 of 128 23 January 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for a great log so far and thank you for the links you put on.
It's always nice to read about what methods people use. Keep up the good work and thanks once again. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5883 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 128 of 128 24 January 2014 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
You're welcome. I'm glad you find it useful. It's always more and more clear for me that trying to explain your methods helps you to better understand and improve them, it doesn't matter what is the goal of these methods. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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