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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5837 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 2 21 December 2008 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
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I have no experience with Mandarin, but I'd really like to learn to primarily speak
and understand it. I don't feel there's any point seriously focusing on learning to read and write it to start with; it seems that's something one should focus on after they've got a good grounding in the tones, vocabulary and grammar. Can anyone suggest a good text book for a beginner, preferably with audio which would take me to a fair standard, perhaps intermediate or good beginner. The only book I have currently is TY Beginner's Chinese hiding away in a draw somewhere, how is that book? How does it compare to the standard TY Chinese book? Thanks for any advice. 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 2 of 2 21 December 2008 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
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It has been a couple of years since I skimmed through them, but as far as I can remember, TY Chinese is more intense and even has characters (no pinyin after lesson 12/13). Maybe somebody here has studied both of them and can give a better answer.
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