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| idiomasaur Diglot Groupie United Kingdom youtube.com/user/idi Joined 5500 days ago 45 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 8 11 January 2010 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to be starting to learn Mandarin this year, after I better my French, German and Spanish, and I was wondering:
What course did you use to learn Mandarin? What course would you recommend? I want to have a course that not only gets me proficient in the language but also able to read and write as well as I will be able to speak. I've heard good things about the Living Language Ultimate Chinese basic-intermediate course. Thanks in advance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6367 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 12 January 2010 at 2:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never studied Mandarin, but I've seen other members here talk about this course.
http://ocw.usu.edu/Languages__Philosophy_and_Speech_Communic ation/First_Year_Chinese_I It's free, and there are at least five levels from what I can tell. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 8 12 January 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I've used ChinesePod to great benefit. It's not free (in fact, it's rather expensive), but it's the single best (and
largest) language teaching program I've ever seen. You can sign up for a free one-week trial to try it out. If you can really dole out the cash, you can even get ten minutes of speaking practice on the phone every day. But that's on the Executive Plan, and that's as expensive as Scientology. I recommend the Premium plan if you can afford it, since the Personal Vocab tab and the integration of Skritter really work well. Edited by Ari on 12 January 2010 at 5:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 4 of 8 13 January 2010 at 5:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Living Language is good, but it is very limited in what it teaches you in writing.
How about Yong Ho's courses - basic and intermediate? They come with CDs and are very reasonable. Check out the reviews on Amazon com and uk. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 5 of 8 13 January 2010 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
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How about a mix of Dashan's 'Communicate In Chinese' VCD course, and Sinolingua's 'A Key To Chinese Speech And Writing' Vol I and II?
Or, just do the Sinolingua stuff, if you can still get hold of them with the tapes! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6263 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 6 of 8 13 January 2010 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
I did the free trial over a year ago, I found the site painfully slow. So slow that I wouldn't use it. Has that improved(or was it only slow for me?) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5831 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 7 of 8 14 January 2010 at 12:11am | IP Logged | ||
I am using 'A Key To Chinese Speech And Writing' Vol I and like it a lot. I had a quick look at the second volume and it doesn't seem to follow the same format. how did you find it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5958 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 8 22 January 2010 at 4:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Well since Chinesepod was mentioned, check out http://popupchinese.com/. It seems to be a competitor of Chinesepod and it's free.
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