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| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 17 of 54 29 August 2008 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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I have finished reviewing lessons 1-4, and i have finished lesson 5. I shouldn't have any more distractions this week, so i should be able to do two lessons every 3 days. At this rate, i should finish the Chinese In Steps 1 book by a week on monday. Im feeling confident with Chinese In Steps, so when i finish book 1 and 2, i should know about 500 hanzi. After this, i think that i will buy a hanzi textbook to really build my vocab. With the podcasts, i am simply using them to get the speaking practice. I think that i can build my written vocab as well by testing myself on the hanzi in each podcast. Because i have just done a few basic podcasts, the hanzi is familiar to me. Overall, i am finding the pinyin + hanzi learning approach very rewarding. I know that i could learn the spoken language quicker if i solely studied it, but then i would get to the point where i can't continue without learning the hanzi. I think that with the way things are going, i should be able to reach 750 by christmas. Do people think that this is a reasonable goal? Because i want to have a career in international finance, i think that once i get to 1000 hanzi, i will start to focus on financial terms. I have started doing the same with my Spanish. I learned the tenses and common verbs, and then started reading news stories. So this is a method that works with me, and ill apply it to my Chinese when i am ready. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 18 of 54 29 August 2008 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
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Complete lesson 6 of Chinese In Steps by Sunday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 19 of 54 29 August 2008 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
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I start my final year of university on the 27th of September, and by that time, i want to have finished Chinese In Steps 1 & 2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 20 of 54 01 September 2008 at 3:09pm | IP Logged |
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Quick update, i didn't have time to finish lesson 6 yesterday, so im doing it tonight. Im still on to meet my deadline of 27th September for both books, and ill be able to make up a bit of time soon
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| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 21 of 54 02 September 2008 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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I finished lesson 6 of Chinese In Steps 1. I didn't get round to reporting this last night as i was so tired after spending most of the day watching the transfer news on Sky Sports. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 22 of 54 02 September 2008 at 9:00am | IP Logged |
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Complete Lesson 7 of Chinese In Steps 1 by Thursday 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 23 of 54 04 September 2008 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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I completed lesson 7 Goal: Complete Lesson 8 by Saturday 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5959 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 24 of 54 31 October 2008 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
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I have been so busy recently with my university work, so ive put this to one side. But now, i really want to get back into this. I still have the goal of being able comfortably speak chinese by the summer.
So this weekend, i am refreshing my knowledge of lessons 1-8. I did 1 and 2 on the train home, so i have 6 to do. This will really kick start my learning. Another reason for doing this is that at my uni, there is an open language learning centre, which has the next few books in this series, so ill be able to move on from this book. Ill keep you updated Goal: Refresh lesson 1-8 by Sunday 1 person has voted this message useful |
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