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| paisley Groupie United States Joined 5718 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 9 of 14 22 October 2009 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.zapchinese.com/
This zapchinese site is being quite helpful at the moment. The pin yin writing is kind of lame, but that's okay. I like the ability to play the sound while looking at the spelling. And good basic and work related words. : ) (I couldn't get on the FSI site btw, not sure why, won't let me in) Edited by paisley on 22 October 2009 at 4:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| charlie_ihsan Newbie United States Joined 5516 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Arabic (classical) | Message 10 of 14 24 October 2009 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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This video is really cute and catchy and will help you learn the sounds of pinyin and reading pinyin a little, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Ayvjy-Dgs 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| paisley Groupie United States Joined 5718 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 11 of 14 25 October 2009 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Omg Charlie, that was adorable. :D. I'm going to watch it a few times. :D (update: VERY USEFUL)
Also, found a great site for putting together my vocab needs, with both the pinyin and pronunciation on the same page! askbenny.cn He has a list of 920 vocab words, and you can pick them out and add them to "my library" so now i have all my vocab words in one place, just click on them and the word is spoken. Very useful. today i told the chinese girl next to my counter "i want to buy the face cream" (but in chinese), she said it sounded perfect. Then my counter had several chinese clients today, as usual, and they were very amused with my chinese. :D. I told them prices and their totals in chinese, they were totally tripped out. :D. Fun. Tonight i'm learning, "if you give me an email, i can email you when there is a discount and I can mail your order to China" That will be a necessary one, because once we sell them something it's very hard to communicate that this is an option for down the road. :) Edited by paisley on 25 October 2009 at 5:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| charlie_ihsan Newbie United States Joined 5516 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Arabic (classical) | Message 12 of 14 25 October 2009 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, getting the sounds down will really help - youtube has a lot of videos that help with that. Listening to Pimsleur's beginning stuff will give you some more words to work with, too (not sure if you said anything like that, my memory isn't the best) - you can get it from your library, chances are.
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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6348 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 13 of 14 25 October 2009 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.nciku.com/ has a very extensive dictionary that includes audio for every
words. You could use it to make vocab lists and simply ask the native speaker to create grammatically correct sentences using these terms. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| paisley Groupie United States Joined 5718 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 14 of 14 25 October 2009 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you, this is very useful. They have a section on cosmetics and also has sentences spoken in chinese using the words. That is very helpul for me to identify hearing them said in a sentence. Edited by paisley on 26 October 2009 at 4:50am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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