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| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 15 23 February 2010 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey guys,
I've found that my Chinese pronounciation is pretty bad, and since it seems that the general opinion here is that shadowing is the way to go (or has anyone experienced a better way?), I thought I'd give that 方法 a try. Therefore, has anybody already prepared some resources which are good for Chinese shadowing? I'm sure I'm not the first one to do that, and that would save me a heckuvalot of searching and clipping audio - time I'd prefer to use for actual study ;) Thanks a lot! PS: I'm not really looking for "Nihao" and "Wo shi deguoren" things.. I'd prefer more complicated, challenging things :) Edited by Pyx on 23 February 2010 at 10:50am 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 2 of 15 23 February 2010 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Go to chinesepod.com, sign up for a one-week free trial subscription, download some lessons at the level you're at and make sure to get the PDF transcripts. It's great, useful and often entertaining stuff and it's read well by voice actors at natural speed. I've shadowed their lessons with great pleasure.
EDIT: Obviously, get the "Dialogue only" audio file and not the full lesson, to save you some editing time. Edited by Ari on 23 February 2010 at 7:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 15 23 February 2010 at 7:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Ari, thanks for your reply.
I've got quite a selection of Chinesepod mp3s lying around (I was a member for a year), but I didn't mean listening material in general, but instead already prepared chunks suitable for shadowing, i.e. between maybe two and ten seconds. If no one has something like that I'll look for some good sentences and then clip them out of the audio stream myself (though I'll likely use something more 'natural' than Chinesepod), but I'd prefer to leech off others' work who have already done that ;) 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 4 of 15 23 February 2010 at 10:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Terminology clash: I think you have a different definition of "shadowing" than I have. Two to ten seconds is far to short to do shadowing. One or two minutes is more suitable. I think you're talking about what I'd call "chorusing". Do check the Forum Glossary to avoid confusion on terms.
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| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 15 23 February 2010 at 10:50am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry for the confusion, I saw them as pretty much synonymous (as is written in the glossary ;) ), but I might have been more clear here. Sorry about that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 15 23 February 2010 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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AniaR, that's good to know, they didn't have that last year when I was still a subscriber. Nevertheless, I feel for a couple of reasons that chinesepod isn't adequate for what I want, and my question really is if anyone has already prepared suitable chunks, and would be willing to share them. If I really have to, I know how to get adequate audioclips myself, but I'd really prefer to spend my time with the language, not with the resources for the language.
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| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 15 24 February 2010 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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No? 真可惜。。。
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