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| braveb Senior Member United States languageprograms.blo Joined 7007 days ago 264 posts - 263 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 25 of 28 08 April 2006 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
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I wonder why they would only offer 1350 words.
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| sky-168 Newbie United States ravechat.com Joined 6945 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes | Message 26 of 28 10 April 2006 at 7:21am | IP Logged |
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I went back and did a recount hoping that I was wrong somehow. However, it looks like I wasn't.
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| maxb Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6993 days ago 536 posts - 589 votes 7 sounds Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 27 of 28 10 April 2006 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
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This seems to me a general problem with chinese programs.
It seems some of the FSI programs for "easier" languages teach well over 3000 words while "Standard Chinese: a modular approach" probably teaches something along the lines of 2000. I don't know why this is. This is why I have given up textbooks and started with real chinese content instead. The minute you do this your vocabulary is going to grow enourmosly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sky-168 Newbie United States ravechat.com Joined 6945 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes | Message 28 of 28 10 April 2006 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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Yes, besides focusing on my PCR's, I am enjoying translating the movie Huo Yuan Jia for fun. I recently found a nice subtitle site for Chinese movies. http://shooter.com.cn/ I will then go as far as rip sections of the movie dialogue audio into mp3 and thow it on my Rio mp3 Player for study. I started this last weekend and translated about 200 of the 856 lines. It was so enjoyable it felt effortless. As I write this, I am thinking that Eat Drink Man Woman would be another good movie to rip.
A book that I could compare to Assimil, without the Assimil price, would be "Hello: Practical Dialogues for Home, School, Social Life" ISBN: 7800521060. The book has 600 sentence patterns and a 2000 word vocabulary. I think I only paid a few dollars for it in China. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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