I want to learn Chinese
3 days ago
Learning Chinese is cool
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How to learn chinese
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 "Very challenging but very rewarding and so useful for the future!"
How I did it: I took a year-long intensive at my school with a teacher from Beijing. The learning process is very slow and difficult, especially if you're only used to romantic languages like English, French, Italian, etc. but hang in there and you'll be so glad you did!!! Lessons & tips: - Having a good concept of grammar structure is helpful. The grammar of Chinese is completely different from that of Western languages, but I find that people who grasp grammatical structure have an easier time constructing sentences in Chinese. - A good ear is really helpful! The language is tonal, so the way you pronounce a word changes the meaning. People who speak other tonal languages and people who are musically inclined tend to have an easier time with tones. - The best way to learn characters is to practice, practice, practice. Flashcards help!!! Start with the basics since the complicated characters are almost always combinations of simpler ones. - Buying a Chinese-English Dictionary is helpful if you're really serious. Not absolutely necessary but it helped me a lot.
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My Chinese is good, just not good.
4 days ago
My chinese level is alright, especially for not even being asian. I spent a year studying there, and now that I’m back, my Chinese is fading and I need to be fluent by the end of the year. I’ll be buying and studying SEVERAL books. I even got Rosetta Stone.
I'm on it!
6 days ago
Grammar doesn’t look very hard for now, but writing DOES =S And the pronunciation’s tricky, too.
But I’ll do it =)
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Shame shame shame.
1 month ago
I’m actually Chinese myself. But I’m Canada born. So I’m been exposed to English only. I watch a heck Lotta dramas now. My Chinese has improved over the past year. I can recognize words now but not that much since English is still taking over. Even now I’m JUST typing English. Shame Shame.
Edit:
I can speak and listen to it. Just the modern one. I need to practice reading and writing.. that’s all<3
Thanks for the support :D.
Sinophonic World
1 month ago
So….. I learned some basic Chinese in high school but I never took it seriously. Now many years later, since February I restarted my studies with Chinese. This time I’m a bit more diligent with it. I can read a good amount of characters, my listening skills could improve drastically, my spoken skills are just ok. My tones are more or less correct, but could use some polishing. In addition to the ultra-pompous standard northern accent, I’d like to pick up a relaxed Taiwanese accent. I cannot for the life of me write more than some 100 characters, although character recognition is around at least 1000 or so characters. Maybe in three years I could read a newspaper with ease. Meanwhile, I’d like to just improve my colloquial daily language to participate in all aspects of the sinophonic world. Anyone want to help ?
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Started when I was born....
1 month ago
Ok. I had it easy. My parents both are Chinese, and most of my family is still in China. However, it still took quite a long time.
I cannot remember my early years of studying, for I was young. However, starting at about age 9, my parents stopped teaching me at home, and enrolled me into a Chinese school, at an Omaha, NE, library.
This continued, until I moved to Chicago, IL. However, as soon as I moved to the suburbs, I went back to a Chinese school.
Then I moved again.
Currently, I am still enrolled in a Chinese school, and my Chinese has improved, far from the lad of 10 I once was.
I expect to be out of the class come May 2010.
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There are so many things I want, even though I feel this one doesn’t really need effort since I’m quite comfortable speaking it, it does (stressing hanzi). If time allows, I should work on it more often.
