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im probably gonna switch to mandarin. But judging on my career path right now, I think i'd be ok learning russian or slavic. |
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he's white you racist |
I know he's white what's your point? |
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I had Rosetta Stone Mandarin and it was pretty solid, I slacked off though and I forgot stuff. The main thing is you need to practice with people, otherwise you're never going to learn. |
@ ppl who say cantonese is hard yes i would imagine how fucking gay it would be to learn this as a second language without any experience in chinese. It's really hard to "learn" cantonese. With the way they teach you it in books and professionally, you'd pretty much learn to speak sentences that are basically mandarin sentences spoken out in the cantonese form. For those who don't understand wtf i'm talking, it means like the letters of our alphabet being spoken in another way. there are still 26 letters in the alphabet, A is still in the beginning of the alphabet, but instead of sounding like "A", you pronounce it differently. Also if you were to learn cantonese straight from the book, when you speak canto to other cantonese people they'd think youre the biggest fob ever. that is because you don't speak the traditional canto (which is written in serious chinese newspapers), cantonese people speak SLANG cantonese. I doubt there are any professional courses or books which teach slang cantonese. The only real way to learn and master slang cantonese is to hang out with fucking hongers or watch TVB like a little honger you are. |
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There are many people out there who are probably interested in this topic. I'd appreciate keeping on topic to keep this thread helpful to others. In turn, I'll try to post infrequent updates of my experiences. This morning I've registered for a course with Key Language and will start in two weeks time. Thanks for all helpful comments! |
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Listening to French radio and French TV taught me the cadence of the language and more comfortable word use better than a text book ever could - though though early learning experiences really helped me digest what I was listening to to begin with. That's why the Pimsleur method works better too for most people, because it focuses on a more natural audio learning method (though how casual it is depends on the source, some are very conversational while others are more formal). |
@ the people who failed my post above, care to elaborate where you disagree with my post? Either 1) you dont agree with the difficulty i see in cantonese Or 2) youre butthurt cuz i called you a honger Come forward, bro |
Ive been taking it at Langara every saturday with instructor Betty Tu. She is an awesome instructor. A lot of students transfer to her as her personality is more suited for beginners. |
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The Key Language course is almost over, just one more class left. I am very happy with the results, it certainly provided me with a foundation to keep building up both the grammar and vocabulary. I would recommend it to people who are considering learning Mandarin. |
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And can you give some more details on your results? Also, do you have a forum where you can practice Mandarin? |
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Results... hard to be specific, but I can order a drink at the restaurant, tell my girl that I miss her, welcome people to my home, describe my family, nationality etc. I've learned pinyin enough to be able to learn new words. From just once a week over 2 mo classes, that feels like a decent achievement. |
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Congrats on the success. |
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