Have dated asian girls in the past and picked up a few words, but i plan on moving to somewhere that speaks Mandarin in the future. How can I learn to speak the quickest?
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
you can do this with any language but: make laminated note cards of the word and it’s translation and stick them on things you see everyday. make sure you practice speaking every night for at last 20 minutes and play games in that language like word matches. Watch dramas or shows in the language as well.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
You should practice more and more just as well as your native language. Find a native teacher online who indicate you clear way is also helpful to improve your Chinese skill in short way.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Mandarin is a complicated language. The best way to learn is to be surrounded by it. If you have the opportunity to do a foreign exchange to China, then do it. That’s the best help to your language and the fastest way to improve. While you’re studying in the states, it’s very difficult to learn Mandarin quickly or well. You should focus a lot on correct pronunciation to begin with. Get as much help from your teacher, or a native Chinese speaker as you can. This will start with pinyin. Once you have the pinyin pronunciation down though, don’t just focus on learning new words in pinyin, but learn the characters to. Characters are very important for living in China. What I found helped me the most while studying Mandarin in the states, was to listen to a recorded dialogue and repeat after it. That helped me with pronunciation and to pick up the grammar patterns.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Chinese is as easy as English…
learn both listening-speaking _and_ reading-writing…
learn Simplified characters – hanzi…
don’t learn separate characters — learn words which consist of two ot three characters (or more)…
install qq and chat with Chinese people…
they are friendly and helpful…
and don’t forget about the textbooks, dictionaries and the tapes…
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Be very careful of the learning method you use. Linguists, and people with vast experience in learning languages will almost always agree on the fact that most language learning methods out there are 50-70 percent fluff! It’s pretty easy to get away with telling you that you’ll be able to speak a language when for example, someone says "hello", they’re speaking English, and it doesn’t mean they can actually communicate. Being semi-fluent means you have a functional comprehension of at least 65% in the conventional range of that language, while fluent would be anything greater than 80%. If you don’t have the time to learn Mandarin properly, and you’re after something quick and easy, then you’re probably headed towards disappointment. The best method to getting as far as you can get in the shortest period of time is called the “3 step”. The first step is to complete a FULL Pimsleur (MUST BE PIMSLEUR) course. Listen to each lesson at least 2 times, taking notes the first time with new vocabulary and studying before listening the second time. The 2nd step is to form a list of the 2,000 most common/frequently used words/vocabulary in English, to also include the most common/frequently used eight parts of speech in English (verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections), which you can search the web for. Once you’ve formed the list, you need to find accurate generic-translations, which you can apply to most common case scenarios of Mandarin (definatley the most challenging part of all this). Once that’s done, make flash cards or whichever method works best for you in memorizing vocabulary, but try to include each word in a sentence, on top of just the new word and it’s meaning (basically, know how to use it as correctly as possible). In your sentence forming exercises try to use each word in 10 or more ways, and you’ll actually notice yourself incrementally advancing every 500 words. An excellent learning aid would be to have your sentences in code switching, or loan-word format, meaning that you’re translating an English sentence that uses word-for-word phraseology as how you would express it in Mandarin. Kind of like “Spanglish”, if that makes any sense. Repetition is the key here, so this would also be a good time to solidify your pronunciation. After you’ve memorized all that, the 3rd step is to locate 4 movies that are preferably some kind of Disney movie, or anything of a slower pace. Childrens movies seem to work best for this. Watch ONLY these same 4 movies in Mandarin, with good, quality English subtitles, continuously, to the point where you know what’s going to be said next. If you need extra assistance with the movies or sentence forming exercises, this is where you can use whatever you want to help yourself out (dictionary, phrasebooks, Rosetta Stone, internet, etc). There’s a very good book called 1400+ Chinese Conversational Phrases: Learn Chinese with its most Common Everyday Expressions, by Ju Brown PhD. Try to plan completing each step in this order, exactly as described within a time-frame of about 10-12 months. Remember to always be vocal throughout all this, and SPEAK OUT LOUD in Mandarin as much as you can! When you’re done, you should be somewhere in the range of “semi-fluency”, at the point where learning after the “3 step” is quick and easy, and being close to fluent after 2 years of using it everyday, and learning at least an additional 100 new vocabulary words a month during that time. The downside to the 3-step method, is that when you’re finished, you still may not be grammatically up to par, but will know more than enough to get there easily, which is what makes this the best and most efficient “fast” method, but not necessarily a good substitute for formal education. Either way, it can’t hurt to try! Good luck!
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Learn Mandarin Chinese – Tip 1 – Focus on the Tones!
Chinese is a tonal language. This means that words with the same sound can have totally different meanings depending on their tone, or pitch.
Learn Mandarin Chinese – Tip 2 – Don’t Forget Reading and Writing!
A question I hear quite a bit from students of Chinese is, "Do we really need to learn to read and write the characters?" The answer is YES! And the sooner you start learning to read and write Chinese, the better.
Learn Mandarin Chinese – Tip 3 – Listen, Listen, Listen!
When learning a tonal and analytic language such as Mandarin Chinese, you need to expose yourself to the sound of the spoken language as much as possible. At first, native speakers’ speech will sound as if it is coming at you a mile a minute. However, the more you expose your ears and brain to the sound, it will start to slow down. You’ll be able to pick out words and phrases at first, then complete sentences and thoughts.
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
First, you should learn the basic Chinese pinyin system, which is the basis of Chinese pronunciation. Try to pronounce each one correctly. Then, you can begin practicing, progressing step by step from Chinese words to phrases, and eventually to sentences. Practice is crucial to speaking Chinese, so if you keep practicing, you can learn to speak quickly.
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am
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