How I’m Studying Chinese: My 16 Key Methods for Effective Language Learning
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Languages
I’ve been studying Mandarin Chinese on a day-to-day basis for about 8 months now, and I’ve made some discoveries on good study practices. So today I’d like to share with you some of the methods I use for learning Chinese…
So you’ve set up your Mac to let you input Chinese characters. But what if you wanted to write Chinese using the Latin alphabet, i.e. pinyin? Since writing pinyin correctly requires the appropriate tone marks for flat, rising, falling-rising, and falling sounds (¯ ´ ˇ `), we need to configure your Mac to support them. Let me show you how…
My Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese I Notes (with Pinyin & Simplified Characters)
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Click here to download my complete Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese I notes
The Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese I audiobook is an excellent tool to jumpstart your language studies, since it focuses on teaching you the essentials and most commonly used phrases and terminology for conversing in Mandarin. The Pimsleur language learning audiobooks are well known for their philosophy of anticipation and graduated interval recall. What this means is that they use intelligently placed pauses and intervals to hardwire the words and phrases into the learner’s brain.
This is a post I wrote a month ago while waiting for my flight to Taipei. I was inspired to put some thoughts down when I saw what people were emptying their wallets on in the duty-free arcade.
Oct 30, 4:42pm – Gate 121, Incheon Airport, South Korea
Question of the Day: How can you own fewer items and remain satisfied?
7 Random Health Tips (from Reader’s Digest) + Bonus: South Korea Travel Video
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I’ve just returned from a 31-day trip to Asia (South Korea and Taiwan) and thought I’d share some health tips I found in an article, Forty 5-Minute Health Fixes, in the Asian edition of Reader’s Digest (Nov 2011 issue) and thought were interesting and worth giving a shot.
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