How I’m Studying Chinese: My 16 Key Methods for Effective Language Learning
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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. [...]
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 [...]
If you have an iPhone (or an Android phone) and are looking for a way to memorize Chinese words you can use the free Google Translate app to create your own custom-made flashcards. Google Translate doesn’t come with the bells and whistles that paid apps might have, but it perfectly serves the purpose if your [...]
For the past month or so I’ve been learning Mandarin Chinese from three sources: a Mandarin Chinese course for beginners on YouTube (taught in Japanese), another set of excellent Mandarin lessons on YouTube, and by watching a Taiwanese drama called 海派甜心 (Hǎipài tiánxīn), which is viewable on YouTube as well. I’m going to Taiwan in [...]
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