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| atlantisliv Triglot Newbie Nepal realityequation Joined 5672 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English, Nepali*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 5 31 May 2009 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I'm currently in Hefei, China learning Mandarin (two weeks into a four-week First-Year program) and just wrote up an article comparing the language's basic features to English, French and Nepali. I thought this might interest some of you: http://realityequation.net/mandarin-update-two-weeks-in (Sorry about posting a link on my very first few posts; I've been reading the forum for quite a while now, but didn't feel like I had anything really valuable to contribute). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5670 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 01 June 2009 at 11:22am | IP Logged |
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Don't get me wrong atlantisliv, this looks very promising, but don't you think that two weeks are a little early to make that kind of grand comparisons? The thing is, while reading over it, I noticed that a couple of your Chinese sentences are definitely wrong, and that renders at least some of your observations wrong as well. At least, you should let a native speaker read over your Chinese, preferrably the whole article, so they can inform you about the things that are amiss that you may not be able to see after two weeks?
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| atlantisliv Triglot Newbie Nepal realityequation Joined 5672 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English, Nepali*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 01 June 2009 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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Agreed. My intention when I started writing the post was really just to summarize what I'd learnt over the past two weeks, mainly because I was was enjoying comparing Chinese to these other languages anyway. I got more into it as I was writing the post, the whole thing kind of just bubbled into something a lot... bigger. Still, the idea is to compare these languages from the POV of a beginning learner of two weeks.
Thanks for your heads-up on the Chinese. I should have done this before posting, but I've had a native speaker of Chinese go over the text, and have made corrections where necessary. Let me know if you still find something that needs fixing. I've crossed-out one section of the text that I know needs updating (you'll notice it) and added an explanation about the scope and limitation of the post. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5670 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 02 June 2009 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
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Looks good to me now :)
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| atlantisliv Triglot Newbie Nepal realityequation Joined 5672 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English, Nepali*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 5 04 June 2009 at 6:57am | IP Logged |
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Great!
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