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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 137 of 149 31 August 2011 at 3:44am | IP Logged | ||
I'd die of boredom or a hand cramp if I wrote the whole thing out each day. What I was doing was going vertically down the page doing one column for a page or two when I had a bit of spare time and gradually work my way through the whole book. Then back to the beginning. Five characters a page. I'd write each character three times and move on down. It is a review but it is a drag to forget how to write basic characters so I do it from time to time. If you're learning stuff for the first time, I'd just do a bit of this and practice writing out the vocabulary from class or perhaps some random sentences from your lessons. Happy to see you are back and all set for a second year of class. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 138 of 149 05 September 2011 at 4:18am | IP Logged | ||
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論語.衛靈公第十五.四十章
******************** 子曰 辭 達而已矣 ******************** 孔子說: [言語,文辭,足以表達志意就夠了!] ******************** Confucian Analects. Book 15. Chapter 40 James Legge Translation: The Master said, "In language it is simply required that it convey the meaning". ******************** I just happened to run across this Confucian quote. Seems like it would have been a funny line to use if I wanted to be cheeky with the teacher for nitpicking my written Chinese homework or test. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 139 of 149 05 September 2011 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ha, good one! Dare I use it?
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| Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 140 of 149 16 September 2011 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I have now survived my first four weeks of CN205. I'm starting to get the hang of the class, and I
remember that with both of my previous classes, I went through a month or so of feeling extraordinarily stupid before finally settling into a groove. I did switch to pass/fail. It's silly, because what does it matter at my age what grade I get, but I was stressing out over getting every homework assignment done even if it was inconsequential. Now, I can choose not to do the assignments that don't seem important. And that's a good thing, because I've taken on teaching an extra course due to a colleague's accident, bringing me up to basically a job-and-a-half. I actually don't have time to study Chinese right now, but since I've signed up for and am taking this course, I just make time to study. Even if I'm the worst student in the class, I'm making progress. And this weekend, we're making dumplings! With our friends from our China trip. I'm hoping that my daughter will get enthusiastic about returning to China in the presence of her cool teen friend who loves China. Not that I can afford to go back soon, but where there's a will there's a way. My biggest obstacle is that my daughter absolutely doesn't want to return in the next ten years! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6372 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 141 of 149 27 September 2011 at 8:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I just watched a documentary on an American family who adopted a Chinese girl. I think she was 8 or 9. Have you seen it? It was very interesting as they followed her for over a year and a half after she arrived in the US. The sad part was that by the end of the documentary she couldn't speak Chinese anymore. I know your daughter was much younger when she came to the US, but the show made me think of you and how great it is for you to be learning Chinese.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 142 of 149 14 October 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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How's Chinese class going?
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| Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 143 of 149 15 October 2011 at 3:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Jimbo, thanks for asking. I am struggling along as the worst student in the class, gaining much
compassion for my writing students who don't get it the first or second or third time it's explained. I don't have time to study much, and that is making it diffricult. I got a 60% on a test! However, I'm muddling forward and learning as much as I can, and I am able to converse a little bit with my teacher. Trying to decide whether to continue with the next class next term; I'll have a lighter workload, so I might, but it's embarrassing to be so bad at it! And it's not all work and no play that's keeping me busy; my divorce came through and I have actually gone out on a few dates! Now, if only I could find a nice Chinese man, about 55 years old, whose English was worse than my Chinese, I would be able to multi-task so nicely! @Eric: I haven't seen that documentary; it left Pittsburgh before I could get there, but I've heard of it and will look for it to show up on TV. Thanks for letting me know it's worth watching. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aerozeplyn Senior Member United States Joined 5141 days ago 141 posts - 202 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 144 of 149 17 October 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
Hehehe! that is a good thought :) btw about your 60%...that's GREAT! and i must ask, is the class spoken in completely Mandarin? (or say, more than 95% ?) if not, i would try to find a class that is completely in mandarin. i learned WAY more in my "mandarin only" classes verse my "teaching mandarin through English" classes. plus, i really feel that the things i learned in the mandarin only class are the things that are the most engrained into my skull. surely, i often looked like the dumb dunce in the class, and there were other times where i was surprisingly on target (due to my own study methods at home). and if it makes you feel better, my grades in the mandarin only class were definitely less than 50%. but we must realize that these are accomplishments...i'm sure if you would've taken those tests at the beginning of the year, your grade would've probably been much less, right? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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