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| Ogedi Triglot Newbie United States I don't have &#Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4036 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 1 of 3 22 July 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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Right now I'm collecting materials for languages I will learn in the near future. I'm at a point in Spanish where I can
just use native materials, and while I want to learn french in the future I think I have that covered material wise. I have been hammering at Mandarin for a while but I feel I need more materials. As of right now: Mandarin: Teach Yourself Mandarin and Chinese Characters (done) Assimil Chinese (half way through) Pimsleur Chinese (on and off on that, might drop that) Chinese Linguaphone from 1990 FSI (DLI if needed) Chinese I was wondering if there are any character books that would be recommended? I want to learn both simplified and traditional MSA Arabic: Teach Yourself Arabic from the 1962 and 1986 (this one has audio) the Arabic Linguaphone course from Professor Arguelles video from the 70s FSI (only course two on the site has audio) and DLI Arabic DLI Egyptian Russian: teach yourself russian assimil without toil assimil with ease Linguaphone from 1990 Linguaphone from 1963 but no English translations Hugo russian in three months for grammar DLI Russian and Im going to use Skype Language Exchange for all of them like I do for Spanish are these materials good enough to get me into a level I can start using native materials? Any recommendations? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4254 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 2 of 3 22 July 2013 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
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I bought this book for learning Chinese characters and it covers 1000, which is about 30% more than
what you need to pass the HSK Level 1. Tuttle published it, it's called Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters, Vol. 1. I'm only 7/40 chapters through as I had to put it on the backburner since hiring a Persian tutor, but I intend to return to it. It's quite well formatted and very clear and provides a lot of hints and ample yet sufficient explanations for characters. I can't wait for the next volume. I would advise to avoid the Teach Yourself Chinese characters book. I got about 6/10 chapters through and then it asked me to translate whole sentences from Chinese and I was quite unsure how I was supposed to surmount that challenge considering the first couple of chapters are teaching the most basic elements of characters. I'll return to it and hopefully finish it after I'm done the Tuttle book, but it was disappointing to be shut off from essentially half the book because the difficulty inclines so sharply. Reviewing your message, I see you said you were able to finish it. How? I want to so bad! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ogedi Triglot Newbie United States I don't have &#Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4036 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 3 of 3 23 July 2013 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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THANK YOU
I will look into that book when I have time. Did you finish the Teach Yourself Mandarin? I had gone through that first before using the character book. It is a steep climb when you get to that chapter but I think finishing the first book helped me get passed that. I also had a online Chinese dictionary as well that helped. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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