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| ajelsma Newbie United States Joined 4431 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes | Message 1 of 2 08 May 2012 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
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Hey everyone,
My name is Andrew. I started learning Chinese almost two years ago. It was only maybe 8 months ago I realized if I really wanted to improve I needed to do more outside of class. Since they force the grammar and words into you (if you pay attention) I feel that this part of Chinese is basically second nature. After doing a ton of research I found the loki method (Take a text book, listen to the audio from your text for a half hour). This sorta worked but was extremely time consuming and only works for a while then you run out of that sort of text. I only retained about half of the lessons from that. So I finished up a book and fell away from this. Then I started immersing myself in Chinese tv and movies. I have all the resources I could ever need for Chinese; textbooks, tv, audio books, books, random posts, even a lot of Chinese friends to speak with. I tried the goldlist method for a while also because I would get so much information (words) from television/movies. After doing this for maybe 2 months I started to despise lists and would just scribble the words down and not actually use the method. I recently got LWT (learning with texts). At first I put real articles on but these are usually very difficult. So I started with just the advanced 2 section of lingq. I am using this but, do not feel like I remember these. I have been using the shadowing method I described later but a different version; listen a few times, translate it to english, highlight the words I don't know, listen and read-- the next day; listen and read-- continue for 5 more days, then use the test function. I really don't this works. I have had alot of exposure but I really need a method that can work for me to learn/ absorb. I dont feel/ know I am not absorbing the structures as I should. I also have a relatively large amount of time to learn on my hands (summer is approaching), I know I should not "over do it" but I need something I can do that I can learn/absorb while improving preferably something I can do all day or for 30 mins a day; both improving my language. I always get told I dont put enough information. So hopefully I can get some help. This is my first language I am learning, so I am not sure if you all remember this time but hopefully you all can help me. I have a decent sized passive vocabulary (Yes I know this is great and all, but I want/need an active vocabulary as well as good grammar) Thank you all so much (especially if you read the whole post and made it this far haha) Edited by ajelsma on 08 May 2012 at 5:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4522 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 2 of 2 09 May 2012 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
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Did you try out Lang-8.com yet? It's basically correction exchange.. you correct people learning your mother tongue. You can make friends there and pick up some nice tricks along the way, too. Edited by atama warui on 09 May 2012 at 8:48am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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