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| Herryn White Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5969 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 20 28 July 2008 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone found the website www.link-global.com? Topic-based conversational lessons, with very clear video clips and Chinese character graphics. A simple site with cheap lessons, really useful for backing up something like weekly Chinese lessons, or to use as a self-teaching tool, because you can use it whenever you want at home.
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| Jee Senior Member Australia Joined 6315 days ago 105 posts - 105 votes  Studies: English | Message 10 of 20 28 July 2008 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Dont wanna learn characters, but just speaking and listening??!!
I thought that can NOT be achieved without immersion. Edited by Jee on 18 December 2008 at 7:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7027 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 11 of 20 28 July 2008 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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The Michel Thomas Mandarin course is quite good at teaching the tones, and it is loads cheaper than Pimsleur. Pimsleur is also good however.
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6378 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 20 28 July 2008 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||
I'm not following ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6915 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 20 28 July 2008 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I haven't done many of the lessons myself, but I assume that they cover a great deal of the language as regards "real" conversations, good topics and so on. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 28 July 2008 at 5:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jee Senior Member Australia Joined 6315 days ago 105 posts - 105 votes Studies: English | Message 14 of 20 28 July 2008 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, actually I wanna say "I thought that can not be achieved without immersion."
I forgot to type the word "not" haga .,.,... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7187 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 15 of 20 30 July 2008 at 2:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I started just learning spoken Chinese, I really didn't have the interest in learning writing and reading. At first I used Pimsleur and then Rosetta Stone (I also lived in China).
After a year and a half of learning oral Chinese (and Pinyin) I just decided that I needed to learn how to read and write. I think if you only want to learn how to speak then it's good that you don't have to feel the pressure to learn to read/write. Probably the interest will come naturaly. I found because I could already speak I learnt characters quite fast and after a year of studying characters I was probably at the level that I would be expected to be, self studying Chinese over a 2 and a half year period. Good luck 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5965 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 20 01 August 2008 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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My humble response to La Game's question is to use the FSI material. I started it this past December, though realize that it's not for everybody.
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