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| picnick Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4351 days ago 22 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 9 of 16 11 January 2013 at 5:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Just started using Anki! At first I wasn't really that keen on using it despite how
everyone everywhere seems to swear by it, but once I downloaded it and played around with it a bit I'm hooked. The idea of having to do all my own flashcards manually kind of put me off at first, considering how lazy I am :P But I downloaded a set of Mandarin flashcards and realized quickly that it wasn't working for me, and that I needed to input my own vocab for it to work well. I'm now using it to cram from my Korean exam next week, and I'm doing quite well with my vocab now! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4634 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 10 of 16 17 January 2013 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Fellow 鶴 Team member!
I am pleased to see that we seem to be more or less at the same level in Korean and Mandarin! I started Mandarin last August (and unfortunately have been slacking on it since the beginning of January). Anyway, I'll be checking up on you regularly :) Good luck with your studies and the rest too! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5312 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 11 of 16 18 January 2013 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello fellow Team 鶴 member!
You're very lucky to have such a good resource in all your friends and other ways of using Mandarin and Korean at home. I quite like http://www.daydayupchinese.com/ which doesn't seem to be very well known, although it's very limited in scope and will not be to everyone's taste. I also bought one months subscription to ChineseClass101 and spent a couple of evenings with something on the TV mindlessly downloading all the podcasts and transcripts to save on money. Now I have tonnes of them to work through, and only for one month's fee. And, like js6426, I would also recommend Assimil, although that's obviously not free. Best of luck for 2013! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| billyshears66 Groupie United States Joined 4516 days ago 69 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 16 21 January 2013 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Great! daydayupchinese... another path to follow... Everyone keeps suggesting all these
great resources, and I'm an addict! Anyway, hello fellow Team 鶴 member! As far as suggestions, I'd have too many to list lol. I've only been learning Mandarin for a few months now, mostly with Pimsleur. I too am like you, free is my price range. My local library had the first one (Pimsleur 1). They were able to track down Pimsleur 2 and 3 from another library and get it for me. So, I like that price. It's not the best, but you get a lot of speaking practice. Good luck. I'm excited to take this journey with you for 2013! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Silbermond Diglot Groupie United Kingdom xuexisprachen.wordprRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4358 days ago 64 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 13 of 16 23 January 2013 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi there! I'm definitely interested to see your progress in Korean; it sounds like you're pretty advanced already (I started learning in October and can barely string a sentence together...), so if you've got any books or interesting shows to recommend, let us all know :).
I don't know what resources I can suggest for you for Mandarin that are free. I use the New Practical Chinese Reader series of textbooks because they're standard at my university, and they're not overly expensive, but they're not cheap either. If you get to the point where you're reading children's books though, I can suggest the International Children's Digital Library (http://en.childrenslibrary.org/) - they've got a lot of children's books that have been translated by volunteers so they're free to read online. It's good to see you're liking anki as well. There's a website, memrise.com, that's pretty similar, though I use it less often. It's good if you're looking for HSK lists for example (I don't know about TOPIK lists, but I would guess they're all probably on there too). But anyway, I'm glad to see you're on team 鶴 with us. Good luck with this year! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| billyshears66 Groupie United States Joined 4516 days ago 69 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 16 25 January 2013 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the tip. I looked at his real quick and it looks to have a bunch of material for beginning. Once I reach my goal of 1000 characters this year, I'll be checking this out again! Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| picnick Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4351 days ago 22 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 15 of 16 25 January 2013 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello everyone, thanks for the great replies! I'm really on the hunt for good Mandarin
resources and while my budget is free I know there are ways of 'acquiring' the other content. Thanks for all of your resources though I'm sure to check them out! In particular, anyone know any good resources for learning and reproducing tones (other than cold, hard practice)? My friends keep making fun of me for screwing up the tone on basically every syllable haha. @Yuhakko: That sounds great, it's nice to have people at the same pace as you. Although if you've been studying Mandarin since August I'll bet you're more advanced than me haha. I'll check up on your log too! @LittleBoy: I checked out that website, it seems quite straightforward. I'll dig around some more to see if it suits me. @Silbermond Books and shows are still pretty hard even for me after studying for a couple while, but as a beginner I think listening to songs and watching music videos (with lyrics at the bottom) can help a lot! If you want recommendations to good K-Pop music, off the top of my head I'll list the artists Big Bang and SHINee but there's a ton of K-Pop out there for everyone :P == As for my personal log, I took my Korean exam on Saturday! If I pass I get high school credit for taking Korean even though I never learned it in school. It wasn't totally easy, but it was definitely less difficult than expected. The reading comprehension was exactly the same as the sample online one (I think that was a mistake though lol) which were easy questions anyway. Our listening CD didn't even work. The essay writing section was pretty straightforward. The oral was a conversation and I felt somewhat bad for my native Korean partner who had to help me sometimes through it, but all in all I'm pretty confident I passed! Now that I've gone through my exam, I feel like I can focus more on Mandarin now. Like I said I'm trying to master the tones now and I'm still on the hunt for a course that fits me. As for Korean, I took out a Korean copy of Artemis Fowl and I'll be reading it alongside my English copy at home for when I stumble. I'm going to see if this works out! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| picnick Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4351 days ago 22 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 16 of 16 13 February 2013 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
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It's been a while since I updated.
I'm really focusing on expanding my Korean vocab - I've realized it's quite limited and although I have pretty good recall memory my production is not as great, i.e. I can only understand a lot of words when they're spoken to me and that's when I remember how to say them. Chinese has been going on somewhat steadily as well. I'm learning a couple new constructions and vocab with daydayup, that one site someone above suggested. For now I like the simplicity of the site so I'll stick with it and see how it goes. Tones are still horrible though. All in all, I've been somewhat lacking this month in my studies. Wanderlust made no hesitation in finding me - I'm starting to (re)learn ASL. I used to speak it with my deaf cousin when I was in elementary school, but she moved out and so I forgot most of it. Now that I'm trying these video lessons, though, a lot of it is coming back so we'll so how this goes. I really need to focus back on building a good Mandarin base though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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