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solidsnake
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 Message 17 of 27
17 August 2007 at 2:24pm | IP Logged 
maxb, can u recommend any good chinese dialogues for me to memorize? Please also include sources (transcript and audio). Thanks
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 Message 18 of 27
17 August 2007 at 2:40pm | IP Logged 
solidsnake wrote:
maxb, can u recommend any good chinese dialogues
for me to memorize? Please also include sources (transcript and audio).
Thanks


Nothing beats CPod, really...
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solidsnake
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 Message 19 of 27
17 August 2007 at 4:48pm | IP Logged 
I actually hate their accents on chinesepod, the writing is fun on some of their dialogues but they dont speak what i think of as 纯普通话。
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Hencke
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 Message 20 of 27
18 August 2007 at 12:26pm | IP Logged 
solidsnake wrote:
maxb, can u recommend any good chinese dialogues for me to memorize? Please also include sources (transcript and audio). Thanks


Don't know what maxb is going to recommend but here are a few pointers:

http://www.specialchinese.com/
http://www.imandarinpod.com/hoola/
http://www.cslpod.com/Chinese/
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/zhang/dh/dh_audioclips.htm
http://www.antiwave.net/http://www.princessremy.net/
http://www.podcastingnews.com/forum/link_319.htm?sid=6a74d7c a45883e1daf91fe8df75a6951

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glossa.passion
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 Message 21 of 27
18 August 2007 at 1:42pm | IP Logged 
maxb wrote:
... With this I mean that they have taken for instance a long piece of dialouge and learnt it by heart. Both in terms of contents as well as in terms of pronunciation and intonation.
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I have also spent some time doing things like this and I must say that it is really useful.


Your topic has really intrigued me! I recorded about five minutes from a Danish (my target language) spoken interview. I recognized the difference between language course texts, Danish audiobooks and this "realtime" spoken dialog and I am absolutely convinced about the advantages.

So among my ususal other studies I will learn this dialog by heart, as you mentioned both in terms of content and in terms of pronunciation and intonation. I am looking forward to next week, when I'll get the transcription.

Thanks for the wonderful idea!
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 Message 22 of 27
18 August 2007 at 4:13pm | IP Logged 
Can anyone reccomend some Korean
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maxb
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 Message 23 of 27
20 August 2007 at 6:38am | IP Logged 
solidsnake wrote:
maxb, can u recommend any good chinese dialogues for me to memorize? Please also include sources (transcript and audio). Thanks


When I did some work on my accent last fall I used on of the podcasts on this site.

These are podcasts on various topics done by a fast talking beijinger and since I am pretty partial to the beijing accent myself I chose one of them for memorization. Transcripts of some of the podcasts can be found here.

Look for blogentries prefixed with 有一说二

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tuffy
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 Message 24 of 27
20 August 2007 at 9:38am | IP Logged 
I don't really memorize long texts but I have found it very usefull to remember some dialogues from Platiquemos and other resources (also picking up sentences from Maria). Knowing a few sentences is very handy to remember words and expressions. I agree that having a few good texts as examples is a good base from where you can start to build your own correct sentences. And when you know a lot of sample sentences, you can often simply use those instead of creating your own. (Of course that should not be an excuse not to learn how to build your own sentences :)

Edited by tuffy on 20 August 2007 at 9:40am



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