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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7173 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 9 of 11 23 August 2008 at 1:44pm | IP Logged |
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Well it's been nearly four years of learning Chinese. I speak Chinese for the majority of my day (excluding times
when I teach English). Still living in Beijing and my girlfriend lives with me we use Chinese 99.9% of the time. She is studying English at university but luckily, at least her English speaking level doesn't match my Chinese and so it's quicker to use Mandarin. I'm mainly using supermemo for nearly everything, but sometimes i'm worried that I have become a slave to the program. Anyway using it in many ways to learn writing/reading/new characters/listening etc. Also have a personal tutor that I use sometimes. I'm certain now I would get a HSK level 6 which is enough to get me into a Chinese university to study. But, still I feel I have a long way to go. I'm reading stuff like Tintin comfortably so obviously I have a long way to go. I feel though that this year working on vocabulary I'll become more proficient at reading harder material (comfortably that it). Speaking wise I don't that I have too much problems with everyday chat, if I don't know the word I can easily describe it. Grammar wise I'm still bad, but considering I've not studied grammar formaly not as bad as I usually think I am. I get my tutor to correct my mistakes and they are becoming less and less. Still I use strange non usual words to express things. Now though I feel I don't often come across someone that speaks English better than I speak Chinese so people naturally feel the language we 'should' use is Chinese. All in all though, there's a long way to go. I would say another 2-3 years of very SOLID hard work. If when I started Chinese someone told me I would be at the level I am now I would be happy, but not anymore. Indeed the level i'm at now is the level I have described foreigners speaking English as fluent. But, I'm far from fluent :( now my standards have radically jumped up. Oh coming back to England for a holiday I've noticed I sometimes through in Chinese exclamation words and also still after a month on holiday feel an unease with some aspects of British culture that I felt comfortable with before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Keith Diglot Moderator JapanRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6769 days ago 526 posts - 536 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 11 27 August 2008 at 6:04am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the update. It is very interesting to read. I envy you. I hope you are enjoying it.
What do you think you need to do to get to the level where you want to be? Could you give us an idea of this solid, hard work? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7173 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 11 of 11 31 August 2008 at 2:40pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Keith,
Well at times i've been really diligent in the amount of hours i've put in. Often during the last winter holidays I would go to a cafe drink green tea and study for up to 8 to 10 hours. Not being a caffine drinker I found it an amazing drug for concentrating. With green tea I would work almost non stop using Supermemo. Also I went through a period of paying a student to talk to me for 3 to 5 hours a day and then using our conversations and my reading to her to generate questions for supermemo. Actually such a long time studying with a tutor/student was overkill probably at most I just needed 2 hours a day. Not sure what level I will be happy with. The daily conversation level I have now is now good. I think I will be happy when I can do everything in Chinese that I can do in English. Maybe even learning ancient Chinese would be good. What about you how's your Mandarin going? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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