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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
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I did a tutor for a while and then used Pimsleur's tapes and a book called 301 Chinese Conversations which had audio. It's a lot of listening and repeating at the outset. It's really hard to do while in another country though cuz you never get to hear everyday natural speech  |
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Hightop
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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I spent half my holiday in China learning how to say 'Hello'. I was saying it, but the Chinese weren't understanding me properly.
I'm not a big fan of tonal languages, particularly if you want to learn them by yourself. |
I think the biggest problem waygooks have when they start to learn Chinese is just the pronunication of the sounds. This seems to be a big hurdle before tones come into the equation. I have hear a lot of people say the tones make it hard but really if you can listen and repeat they should not be that much of a problem. After being in a class for months there were still Americans who would pronunce the pinyin 'kan' as the English 'can', Koreans who could not differentiate between the ch and q and of course the 'c' in pinyin always came out as a 'ch' and English speakers who could not say the 'nu' as in nupengyou. |
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beercanman
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