Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 1 of 9 11 October 2012 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
Hi all,
I've been through Assimil Chinese, Méthode 90 and Langues pour tous - 40 leçons and I'd like to know if there are other methods consisting of a large number of short lessons. I see this is not a trend in English materials but maybe I can find something that would allow me to continue. There's no problem if those are for zero beginners, because I haven't started Chinese over enough for being able to move on to an intermediate textbook.
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 2 of 9 12 October 2012 at 6:44am | IP Logged |
Check out ChinesePod.com.
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NielDLR Bilingual Diglot Newbie South Africa thelinguaphile.com Joined 5434 days ago 11 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans* Studies: Mandarin, French
| Message 3 of 9 22 October 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged |
You can also try checking out Chinese With Mike, PopupChinese, YoyoChinese and Slow-Chinese
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pushkin Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5518 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes Speaks: French*, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), German, Modern Hebrew
| Message 4 of 9 23 October 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
If you like to learn with french books :
Méthode d'initiation à la langue et à l'écriture chinoises de Joël Bellassen
Ni shuo ne ? Méthode de chinois : A1 / A2 du CECRL (1CD audio)
C'est du chinois 1, manuel pour débutant, 2 volumes
L'Asiathèque :
Méthode de chinois premier niveau (Livre + 1 CD MP3 )
Vocabulaire du chinois contemporain T.1 + 2cd
Méthode de chinois deuxième niveau + 1CD MP3
Chinois pour débutants de Marie-Noëlle Bernès-Heuga
you can download the audio
Méthode de chinois niveau débutant Tome 1 et Tome 2 avec CD de Chen-Jie Jazotte
and New Practical Chinese Reader ...
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pushkin Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5518 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes Speaks: French*, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), German, Modern Hebrew
| Message 5 of 9 23 October 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
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pushkin Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5518 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes Speaks: French*, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), German, Modern Hebrew
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4665 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 7 of 9 24 October 2012 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
Have you tried 一千字說華語 ? It’s a set of 100 lessons consisting of a short, practical dialog, key vocabulary and a couple of brief pattern drills. It was produced by the Overseas Chinese office of the Taiwan government (link below). Click on the dialog and vocab items to listen. I have used this in the past to brush up on my conversation skills – you can go into some depth with 100 lessons. I think a more basic version (500 characters only) also exists, but I’m not sure if it’s available on this website.
You may not be familiar with Bopomofo (which appears next to each character) – actually it’s worth gaining at least a passive knowledge of this system, as it complements pinyin in certain ways.
一千字說華語
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 8 of 9 14 November 2012 at 5:53pm | IP Logged |
Chinese for Today surprisingly has just what I need now. It consists of 35 lessons. Dialogues are short and they sound quite natural. If you skip the exercises, you'll have just as much text as an average Assimil lesson from the middle of the book. I do like it at this stage.
The podcasts are always an option, as they are graded. I just feel that studying from a set of materials that is neverending may not seem as motivating as a textbook with a limited number of lessons, yet many of them.
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