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Who among us is studying spoken Chinese AS WELL AS Chinese characters? For those who are studying characters, what method works best for you when you are learning the characters? Anxious to hear from you all!
Jordan
I just come back to Tokyo after a long flight from Sweden where I have been listening to Chinesepod most of the time. After reading some of the posts about the new changes for non subscribes where some people seems to think that there is not enough stuff in the premium package for them to be willing to pay I asked my self, how does other people use Chinesepod? Please add your experiences and thoughts. I can’t be the only one that feel that there is actually very good stuff in the premium content.
This is what I do with it.
- I download the whole package to my IPod touch. In that I can not only listen to the dialogues, I can also se the dialogue in Chinese (for beginner also with pinyin). I usually listen to the dialogues when I ride the bike to and from work. I usually listen to the dialogue twice on the way to work and then the repetition and words on the way back.
- When I come home in the evening I log in to the net and reads though all the dialogues. Useful patterns and sentences I save in my own software for future use.
- I do take a couple of tests with the flash cards. Interesting new words I save to my vocabulary collection for repetitions.
- I am lucky to have a Chinese wife since over a decade so I let her play one part in the dialogue and hence we can practice the spoken Chinese. She is also taking the new words and let me construct new sentences wit them.
- I am often revisiting old lessons to refresh my memory.
- From time to time I download lessons from the advanced section just to challenge my listening skills.
- When flying or sitting in booring meetings (I have a lot of those) I log in to the Iphone version of the site and takes some flashcards tests.
By looking at the elements in an character i learn faster and remember the characters longer. This is what i do:
. Take the new character e.g.
The character is ān, peace, calm etc. the two left pictures are the pictograph of the character. This I look up in an Character dictionary. The bottom part is a woman and she is under a roof =A woman under the roof of a house is something that will bring the man peace. It was the woman who cared for the household
Now, by looking at the radical here, the roof part (mián) we can find many other characters with this as a radical such as:
字 letter, character, word (zì) If we break down this we get a Child (子 zǐ) under the roof = word. A child in the family leads to communication. In this character the roof part is the radical and the child part is the pronunciation part.
Like this we can go on and look for other words with the same pronunciation part such as 仔 (zī) responsibility. Person and child = it is a persons/parents responsibility to take care of the child.
We can also go the other way and find words with this character such as:
安排 ānpái to arrange; to plan
安全 ānquán safe; secure; safety; security
平安 píng'ān safe and sound; well
I usualy concentrates on words that are on the top 2000 list when breaking down the characters. The words i get from on line dictionaries.
After a whort while we will notice that most characters can be traced down to a few elements. There is only 214 radicals in simplified Chinese. All characters has an radical so it might be a good idea to learn the radical in the character. Since the radical tells us something about the meaning of the character it is an vital part to know. My brain needs the sort of structure. Just learning to paint the character does not work for me. I need to know the structure. This is my structure:-)
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Still can not speak Chinese as locals? Come to us~ We have more than 20 years experience of Chinese language training for overseas friends.....
Beijing Institute of Economic Management
2010 Spring Course: Mar.4-Jul.9 2010
1. HSK intensive class: 8:30-14:55
2. Morning systematic class: 8:30-11:55
3. Afternoon systematic class: 13:00-14:55
Welcome to us: +86-10-64721897, Stacey
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