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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 49 of 54 30 January 2010 at 12:26am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I might just have to take you up on that offer. Team M seems to have fallen apart. :(
I agree, it is hard to find Chinese music that isn't soft pop; it seems to be just about the only music genre coming out of China! I have been listening to Faye Wong (王菲) a lot lately. Though her music would probably be classified as pop, she also has her own unique style of music, plus a voice to die for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bklmAZufk
谢谢！
Honestly, I had never heard of CELTA until you mentioned it. I will definitely look into that possibility. :) Russia would certainly be an interesting place to teach, but мой русский очень плохой! Edited by Levi on 30 January 2010 at 12:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 50 of 54 30 January 2010 at 12:40am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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All right, I promised myself I would come up with some medium-range goals to pursue. Here they are, in order of importance:
1) Finish Remembering the Kanji. I'm currently reviewing all the characters I've learned so far, and am about done with that. I want to work at a pace that will allow me to finish the book by the end of February, but not so fast that I forget what I've just studied. 2) Work through my Integrated Chinese textbooks that I've barely touched since college. 3) Read my Spanish-language book, Soy ateo. I also have a book in French and a book in German, but this one is the shortest, and it will be the first time I've ever completed a whole book in a foreign language that was intended for native speakers. I could sure use the motivation boost from finishing that book, and my Spanish could certainly use some attention. Ironically, though I've studied German more intensively and more recently, I still find Spanish easier to read than German, because of its Latinate lexicon. Edited by Levi on 30 January 2010 at 12:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 51 of 54 05 February 2010 at 6:27am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Not much to report on, except that I've really been focusing on Remembering the Kanji. I'm two-thirds of the way through the book now, and less than 700 characters remain to be learned. The end is in sight, and I'm just sprinting for the finish. I'm really eager to get into learning real Japanese, and I feel knowing all the Jōyō Kanji right off the bat is going to be a huge help. I want to start seeing these guys in context, to start using them and pronouncing them.
When I'm done with the book, I want to start Assimil's Japanese with Ease. I have a number of other Japanese resources on my bookshelf too, so we'll see what happens there. I'll also work on my other medium-range goals listed above. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 52 of 54 16 February 2010 at 7:19am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I am systematically going through all the old ChinesePod episodes, and saving the dialogs to my iPod. I want to keep the dialogs playing, randomized, when I can.
I'm also making steady progress with Remembering the Kanji, and am now about three quarters of the way done. I may not finish the book before the end of the month, but I'll definitely be done before spring. I haven't really done much with my other languages, to be honest. Chinese and Japanese, being newer languages to me, are more exciting than the others which I have become accustomed to already. From now on, I'm going to make a point of studying at least one European language daily in addition to Chinese and Japanese. I'll probably focus on one language at a time and switch it every now and then, rather than settling on a schedule where I study one language per day. I was flirting with the idea of indulging my wanderlust to break the monotony, but I can't really do that to myself right now. Dutch will have to wait. Five language is enough. Edited by Levi on 16 February 2010 at 9:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5509 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 53 of 54 18 February 2010 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I thought I had thanked you for the music recommendation, but I hadn't, so: 谢谢! I've
seen pictures of her before, but I don't think I had ever heard her music, so it's nice to put a voice to the face. I know where you come from when you talk about neglecting 'older' languages and feeling wanderlust; I'm actually having that problem right now, and it's very hard to resist the temptation to look at Croatian or Middle Egyptian or who knows what instead of good old Mandarin. I'm bribing myself into doing more Chinese right now by looking at more short texts, mostly fiction, which are more interesting to me than newspaper articles and hold my attention better than long novels. I like to think it's a good compromise. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| dashed Newbie Canada Joined 5453 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 54 of 54 19 April 2010 at 9:52am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hey guys, I apologize for my lack of activity both in my language log and on this forum. I've been extremely busy with my university semester, but I'll done my final exams by the end of April, and I'll resume learning Mandarin in May.
Do you guys have suggestions for good materials for reading and writing for the mandarin language? I know there are tons of them online, I just wanted to if there are the 'best' study materials to use. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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