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| mike245 Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6765 days ago 303 posts - 408 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Cantonese Studies: French, German, Mandarin, Khmer | Message 33 of 49 24 June 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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Just curious, how difficult are you finding it to read Harry Potter in Chinese? And how
are you checking up new words? Good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 34 of 49 24 June 2013 at 3:57pm | IP Logged |
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I'm using a text version of the book and loading it with Firefox. Words i don't know i just hover over with the mouse to get a pop-up translation with Perapera :)
It's not that hard, a lot can be figured out through context, plus it's much more interesting than most of the texts in my textbooks. At first i was going to add all the new words to Anki, but i figured so much of my Chinese study is so boring that i wanted to have at least one fun thing to look forward to. At the pace i'm going at (20-30 minutes a day) it'll take a couple months to finish, but as i get a little further along in some of my other languages hopefully more time will open up to spend on reading in Chinese. I'm sure Harry Potter is much simpler than most actual Chinese books (ie, not translated), i'd say every other or every third sentence has some word or construction i'm not familiar with (compare this to every other/third word in the Chinese novels i've looked through :P), sometimes (admittedly not often) i can get through entire paragraphs fine. I think it's a good starting point for weaning oneself of textbook texts, and if you're thinking about it i say go for it :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mike245 Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6765 days ago 303 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Cantonese Studies: French, German, Mandarin, Khmer | Message 35 of 49 25 June 2013 at 3:26am | IP Logged |
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Thanks! Perapera sounds nifty. I'll need to check it out.
I am still nowhere close to reading Harry Potter in Chinese, but that can be a goal for next year. I still need to learn another 1,500 or so characters before I can start understanding even basic texts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 36 of 49 02 July 2013 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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Demà me'n vaig a Madrid! Hi vaig per passar-hi l'estiu, us veuré quan en torni!
And here's a short message in Basque: Madrilara joango naiz bihar. Oso pozik nago! "Euskalduna naiz eta harro nago!" :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4403 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 37 of 49 02 July 2013 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
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Καλό ταξίδι, Crush! I can't wait to read about your Basque and Catalan-speaking adventures.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 38 of 49 02 July 2013 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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Ευχαριστω! I'm not sure that i'll make it over to Euskal Herria or Catalunya, i really wish i could. But either way i'd like to at least pick up a few nice books to keep me company here in China :)
I'm gonna see if i can stick to these three languages (Chinese, Catalan, and Basque (grrr.. at first i wrote Greek! You're messing with my mind!)) for the rest of my time in China. Gero arte! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 39 of 49 07 October 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
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Hey everyone, still hanging in there. I've started a little schedule focusing mostly on Spanish and Chinese, though i try to find the time to fit in French, German, and Catalan at least a couple times a week.
I'm starting to see my comprehension get better and better but it's still really difficult to express myself. I'm thinking of maybe getting a nice grammar (such as this one) and working my way through and looking up points that are difficult/confusing to me. But other than that i really don't know where to go. I'm currently working my way through NPCR and the HSK 5 lists at Memrise, which seems to be doing wonders for my comprehension, but i stumble a lot with the production. I wonder if it's mostly a vocabulary issue? I'd be happy to hear any advice you've got. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 40 of 49 15 October 2013 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
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I'm getting my routine down a bit better and managing to fit in at least a minimal amount of Spanish study every day, which has been nice. I still can't seem to fit in French or German, which is a bummer :/
But now i've been getting at least 30 minutes of Spanish (Sueña 4 textbook), Euskara (Assimil and Gorka's guide), and Mandarin (NPCR 4 and memrise) every day :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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