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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4153 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 25 of 27 18 February 2014 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
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Wow,China! This sounds great!
You have no idea how much I love pandas. I have every single WWF panda! Will you keep a travel journal? I'd love to hear some of your adventures. Edited by renaissancemedi on 18 February 2014 at 8:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5627 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 26 of 27 18 February 2014 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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I also have a large panda collections, none real as yet. :) I always keep a diary when I
travel, don't know whether I will write it on the forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5627 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 27 of 27 01 March 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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On Wednesday I had my first Mandarin lesson on Italki with Ally from Xian. We just did
conversation practice for a whole hour, she seemed to understand everything I was saying and I felt happy but exhausted by the end of the session. She spoke quite slowly, I wonder how I will get on understanding Mandarin spoken at normal speed in China? The recordings in the NCPR series are very slow, although that suits me as I can shadow the recordings. But to improve my listening skills I have started using a book called 'Making Connections' by Madeline K Spring. There are 45 units. In each unit there is an unscripted dialogue, spoken at a natural speed. There are several exercises, prelistening, including vocab lists, listening for gist and listening for detail and then some general post listening written exercises. The first 20 or so dialogues are between the same two speakers, one male and one female and cover everyday topics such as family, job, shopping. In the remaining dialogues you hear a variety of speakers including some radio programmes and songs and the themes covered are quite varied, becoming a father, a Chinese soap opera, What's a 'typical' American, a revolutionary song to name just a few. The real disadvantage about the book (apart from the price) is that there are no transcripts. So far I have done the first 2 units, and have been able to complete all the exercise, I would say I understand about 80-90% of the dialogues after working through the entire unit. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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