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maurelio1234
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 Message 1 of 14
30 December 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged 
Hi,

I'm going to take part of TAC 2013 in the Asia team. I have been learning chinese for
some years ago, but just started taking it seriously about 1 year ago. I think I have a
not so bad level in reading and writing, so my objective for this TAC is in
speaking/listening.

Hope we'll have fun :)

Edited by maurelio1234 on 30 December 2012 at 8:23pm
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druckfehler
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 Message 2 of 14
30 December 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged 
Hey Maurelio, nothing against nostalgia, but you may want to rename your log into "TAC 2013" ;) You can do that by editing your first post. Good luck with your studies!
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maurelio1234
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 Message 3 of 14
30 December 2012 at 8:23pm | IP Logged 
druckfehler wrote:
Hey Maurelio, nothing against nostalgia, but you may want to rename
your log into "TAC 2013" ;) You can do that by editing your first post. Good luck with
your studies!


Sure! Just did it! ;) thanks
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maurelio1234
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 Message 4 of 14
02 January 2013 at 11:15pm | IP Logged 
Hi, Happy New year! 新年快乐！

Well, that's my first post :) I'm going to try to do at least one every week.
My goal at this moment is basically gaining vocabulary and improving my speaking
skills.
That's my current strategy:

Vocabulary:


  • Reading a Book during my commute time (3h/day). I'm reading 劍鬼蠱師 (上) by 衣落成火
    (兄弟). I don't think it is very good, but I already started it, so I'll try to finish
    it :P The only problem is that it seems to be much more complicated than the books I
    read before, so today it was the third time I restarted it from the beginning :(


  • Increasing my browsing time spent in chinese sites. I installed a Chrome plugin
    that tracks the time I spend in each site, I'm just trying to make sure that the
    chinese ones are on the top of the list every day.



Speaking:

For now I'm working with Livemocha, I'm trying to work hard to keep my average grade on
the speaking exercises at 4/5. For now it's working (my last week average was 3,5/5)
but it takes a lot of time!





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maurelio1234
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 Message 5 of 14
09 January 2013 at 7:13am | IP Logged 
Hi,

Let's do my weekly update :-)

Last week I sent two livemocha written and spoken tests. I got an average grading of 4/5. My main writing problem is the vocabulary and grammar (using wrong words at the wrong place :-P ) and the main spoken problem is the tone. There's just one solution for both problems: training more more and more. Additionally, I also read 15 Apple daily news, I think I'm fairly comfortable with their news, although it's true that reading texts in some categories (e.g. gossip and technology) is easier than in others (e.g. politics).

This week I think I have a more passive mood, so I'm doing more reading and listening exercises, up to now it's been 5 news a day and at least 20min of video a day. I have noticed too that I'm more and more comfortable with reading Chinese subtitles while people are talking.

As a side project I still need to prepare my presentation for for the challenge of the month, but I'm having less time to write this week.

Regards,

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druckfehler
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09 January 2013 at 9:33pm | IP Logged 
Looks like it's going well!

Regarding reading, with Korean I started to think of reading as many separate skills for different texts with different topics. If I want to I can learn to understand more of a certain news section or other type of reading material in a fairly short time, but the overall reading skill of knowing not so frequent words seems to take a lot of work on all different types of text.
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maurelio1234
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 Message 7 of 14
10 January 2013 at 12:10am | IP Logged 
druckfehler wrote:
Looks like it's going well!

Regarding reading, with Korean I started to think of reading as many separate skills
for different texts with different topics. If I want to I can learn to understand more
of a certain news section or other type of reading material in a fairly short time, but
the overall reading skill of knowing not so frequent words seems to take a lot of work
on all different types of text.


I don't know if it happens in Korean, but I noticed that a big problem for me is that
different authors have different "styles", i.e. they use different words and
expressions to say the same thing... when I'm reading a book it is very frustating to
see that struggle through the first chapters then I can understand the next ones. The
problem is that it happens again and again... frustrating :(
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maurelio1234
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 Message 8 of 14
16 January 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged 
So that's my weekly update:
I have been very busy these days, so I have been working on my low productivity mode :P
I just read something like 13-15 appledaily articles last week and I've been working on
the comprehension part of the FSI mandarin course. At the beginnning of the week I found
out that my current level is the transportation module, so I started it from scratch. Now
I started lesson 1 on monday, and this night I started lesson 5. Let's see what happens.

Bye!


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