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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 129 of 149 28 July 2011 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's super! It must be nice to see that all of your hard work made a difference.
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 Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 130 of 149 11 August 2011 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, another milestone: my daughter and I are moved into our cozy new home. Yes, I'm surrounded by
boxes (including one elusive box containing my Chinese textbooks). But I am ready to jump back into regular language study, and here's why: my uni course, Intermediate Chinese, is going to run with just a very few students. So: Must review Integrated Chinese I so that I'm ready for Integrated Chinese II in, like, two weeks. Second motive is that we have a visiting Chinese professor in my division. I should meet him soon and would like to be able to speak with him a bit. I have discovered about myself, though, that it's much easier to speak Chinese to folks who can't speak English; when you get these highly-educated folks who are so proficient in English, it's too easy to drop my efforts and just speak English. I do think there will be a visit of some Chinese dignitaries from our sister university this year, and usually some of them are not very fluent in English, so I may have the opportunity to speak there. Anyway, though I didn't do the six week challenge, I am having my own two-week challenge to get back up to speed on some grammar and vocabulary. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 131 of 149 12 August 2011 at 4:22am | IP Logged | ||
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What a great success story.
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| Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 132 of 149 18 August 2011 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Motivated by the upcoming start of CN205, I've reviewed a chapter each day of Integrated Chinese. Have
gone through chapters 1-5 and studied the vocabulary. I'm shocked at how much I've forgotten, but pleasantly surprised at how quickly it's coming back. I've also read a couple of bible chapters in Mandarin and listened to a Radio Free Asia podcast. It's good to get into a structured study routine again. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 133 of 149 30 August 2011 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger, right? I'm talking about CN205. Once again, I'm in class
with two brilliant high school students and scrambling to keep up. It's perfect, though. This term, my teacher seems very focused on characters and vocabulary, just what I need to up my reading skills. Last term, my teacher cared mainly about pronunciation and tones, which was super-helpful when I was actually preparing for a trip to China. So: I'm trying to review dozens, even hundreds of characters (most of which seem to fade from memory almost as soon as they're installed there) as well as learn new characters. If I could really memorize and internalize all of these, I bet I could read some real books. And that would be highly motivating. Mandarin Harry Potter, here I come! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 135 of 149 30 August 2011 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
I find writing them out helps. A sheet of grid paper. Then another. Then another. ... This is quite helpful. I find working down vertically is a real help. I should figure out how to do the hollow fonts and make a book like this for my daughter. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 136 of 149 31 August 2011 at 2:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Paranday: thanks for the encouragement and for reading. Good to know it IS possible to learn characters,
and that someday I can actually read something substantial in Chinese. How long did it take you? What kind of stuff could you read at different stages? I think reading is going to be my next big goal. Jimbo: you said just what I needed to hear, because I have pages of characters to write out by Thursday for homework. I admit, last year I neglected this aspect of my studies. It's time to get serious about it! And that is one cool resource you linked to. I don't know that I could write out 333 characters in a day, but it looks really useful and kind of fun. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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