tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post4604452961244263344..comments2023-09-12T10:30:18.485+00:00Comments on Mandarin Student (普通话学生): Declaring war on ChineseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-10401563452447714982012-05-27T19:39:35.244+00:002012-05-27T19:39:35.244+00:00Finally a student I can relate to. I feel so negat...Finally a student I can relate to. I feel so negative when someone talks smug about their mandarin that they studied at Yale, or shut off from students entirely because they're married to the real deal and prefer just to walk tall about it.<br /><br />It's much nicer when you can just have a joke with some old folks or go bilingual with an ESL student.Rolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898789286920248694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-13669301717279798152012-01-09T19:56:53.060+00:002012-01-09T19:56:53.060+00:00Interesting post, Chris...
I agree that we can...Interesting post, Chris...<br /><br />I agree that we can't make it to another level without making a firm resolution.<br /><br />Hope my blog <b>www.justlearnchinese.com</b> could help you improve your Chinese in a way or two. You'll find free Chinese lessons and practice that I created for Chinese learners just like you.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />GraceGracehttp://www.justlearnchinese.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-59978325413230254762011-12-29T22:59:18.283+00:002011-12-29T22:59:18.283+00:00Great post!Great post!Rocket Chinesehttp://www.rocketchinesepage.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-71106482627681926492011-11-06T15:19:03.057+00:002011-11-06T15:19:03.057+00:00@Greg Baie dankie, dis baie gaaf van you!@Greg Baie dankie, dis baie gaaf van you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-33970212279197599102011-11-06T14:17:04.588+00:002011-11-06T14:17:04.588+00:00That's a lot of emotion - all the best in harn...That's a lot of emotion - all the best in harnessing it effectively to take you to fluency.<br /><br />> ek het net twee maande Afrikanns<br />> geleer. Marr ek probeer elke dag 'n <br />> bietjie Afrikaans te leer.<br /><br />As jy alreeds so goed is, sal jy dit seker maklik vind!<br /><br />GregGreghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11197148648944758867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-19576433680883007702011-11-06T13:16:03.036+00:002011-11-06T13:16:03.036+00:00@Steve
I will answer your question full with a pos...@Steve<br />I will answer your question full with a post in the next week or so. However in brutal summary from my experience.<br /><br />You can pretty much nail listening on your own. <br /><br />You can get so far with talking but at some point you have to practice the hell out it. <br /><br />Material will not make me fluent talking to people will, learning material is stilted and formulaic (read some aimed a teaching people English). You can function of it but you don't talk English like that with friends and colleagues and they don't talk Chinese like that.<br /><br />Videos are good etc. but often stylised you won't impress sounding like a gangster, or 17th century Chinese warlord etc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-11901252069753043912011-11-05T19:11:46.224+00:002011-11-05T19:11:46.224+00:00Came over to this blog in order to read the archiv...Came over to this blog in order to read the archive as I've decided to have a crack at Mandarin this month and am blogging it; delighted to see another post after all this time!<br /><br />I'm an extremely anti-social language learner who wants to do it all from books and CDs and the Internet before talking to real native speakers (whom I of course want to dazzle with my self-acquired brilliance, etc, etc). This may be conceited of me, but although I can tolerate reading and listening to the entry-level chit-chat in the first chapters of textbooks ("Hello, my name is X, how do you do? Pleased to meet you!"), I wouldn't get any pleasure out of doing it in real life. I want to wait until I'm capable of saying something interesting and able to understand interesting stuff from the other chap.<br /><br />How far off fluency do you think you are? Would it be possible to get over that last hump on your own, just immersing in video and audio and talking to yourself?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08957786130791291356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-45185230546800484052011-11-05T14:38:02.324+00:002011-11-05T14:38:02.324+00:00@Confused Laowai, awesome, actually almost all my ...@Confused Laowai, awesome, actually almost all my family on my Dads side live in South Africa and somewhere in the Murky past it is in my bloodline (Grandfather was born there). It is still unclear whether there is any descendency from the Dutch or French settlers though. I have no direct family exposure to the language.<br /><br />My Afrikaans is poor, omdat ek het net twee maande Afrikanns geleer. Marr ek probeer elke dag 'n bietjie Afrikaans te leer. <br /><br />Loving it. BTW I am a Drupal programmer (amongst other things) would be happy to trade some Afrikanns help for answering any Drupal questions you may have.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-14831040417579595412011-11-05T14:26:49.668+00:002011-11-05T14:26:49.668+00:00@Keith, yes this long neglected blog will have occ...@Keith, yes this long neglected blog will have occasional posts entirely focused on my Chinese journey, got another blog lined up purely for language learning. <br /><br />I have some audio somewhere where I tried to record a conversation or two will see if I can dig it up. <br /><br />Busy for the remainders of this year but don't expect to be significantly improved in a month or two, particularly as I am focusing a lot on Afrikaans right now so will get some conversation demonstrations and all sorts eventually.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-62858417231587167592011-11-05T07:15:04.896+00:002011-11-05T07:15:04.896+00:00That's the way Chris! You're the only one ...That's the way Chris! You're the only one that will get you there. I sometimes feel like you and just want to RAGE.<br /><br />P.S. - Good luck on learning Afrikaans, it's an awesome language. Contact me if you want some help with it. I'm a native speaker. Proudly South African :)Confused Laowaihttp://confusedlaowai.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-73151067199224469732011-11-05T02:15:04.838+00:002011-11-05T02:15:04.838+00:00I liked the post.
It would be nice to see a video...I liked the post.<br /><br />It would be nice to see a video of your ability now before you move up to fluency. It would be nice to know what you consider to be not-yet-fluent.<br /><br />Though, I realize not many people do make videos. <br /><br />So, I guess in a forthcoming post your going to tell us what you need to do to bring your Chinese up?Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02533265523359409077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-85526579595838847102011-11-04T23:13:40.475+00:002011-11-04T23:13:40.475+00:00Thank Shuo appreciate the support from a Chinese (...Thank Shuo appreciate the support from a Chinese (Mexican ;))Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553675424803911693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22408198.post-74201627379281416312011-11-04T16:00:37.522+00:002011-11-04T16:00:37.522+00:00Love your post! 加油,Chris!Love your post! 加油,Chris!Shuohttp://shuoesque.comnoreply@blogger.com