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Based on my situation, what’s your advice

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peterandheather
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United States
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03 July 2015 at 7:47pm | IP Logged 
My wife and I want to become conversationally fluent in Mandarin as efficiently as possible. Here is our
scenario:

I speak English and Spanish fluently (picked up Spanish while living in Chile for 20 months, out talking to
people every day) and my wife speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently.

We are looking to come up with the best structure possible to aid us in our learning. We are not interested at
this point in focusing on reading and writing, we just want to achieve what I would call conversational fluency,
being understood and able to understand with relative ease.

Some of our advantages is that we’ve learned languages before, I work from home, and that my wife and I
have each other. We can dedicate a good amount of time each day to this. I would love to be all in and just
stop doing English completely, but we have 2 small children so we’ll be speaking English a little bit!
I love languages and have looked into Mandarin before, so I have a general concept of how tones and pin yin
work, but we’re basically starting from scratch.

How would you recommend we structure our learning? Any and all advice is very much appreciated.
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rdearman
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin

 
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03 July 2015 at 7:52pm | IP Logged 
I have a lot of links to resources and threads about this very topic on my logbooks first page. I too took a lot of advice before proceeding.

Good luck!
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Serpent
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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04 July 2015 at 6:56pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi's http://learnyu.com project looks great.

Do you have any specific reasons/goals related to Mandarin? Do they require only speaking/listening or are you simply intimidated by the writing system?

Also, you and your wife won't necessarily learn best in the same way. Arguably it would be even beneficial if you chose different resources and told each other about what you learned.

Edited by Serpent on 04 July 2015 at 10:31pm



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