Christmas present

matthiask
December 14, 2007, 10:31 AM posted in General Discussion
Gosh, I guess I made a big mistake. Sadly, I promised to my girlfriend that
her christmas gift would be 100 chinese sentences, freely spoken by me on christmas eve. The worst thing: Sentences like
窝不蟹黄吃面包。
握蟹黄贩。
are counting as one.
Any ideas how to memorize 100 sentences within 10 days?
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AuntySue
December 14, 2007, 10:59 AM

Learn how to say: "I loved you the first time I saw you" really well. Then learn how to count to a hundred.

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matthiask
December 15, 2007, 07:58 PM

todays lesson fits perfectly to yesterdays lesson 10 more sentences :)

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goulnik
December 14, 2007, 01:36 PM

does that mean you have 100 set phrases to memorize or you can select your own? If the latter I'd suggest to play 20 Newbie lesson non-stop, that should cover your 100 sentences, not that hard (forget about 蟹黄 and 汉字 for now. Alternatively, download one of the public domain recordings of Tang poetry (唐诗) or the Three-character Classic (三字经) and just repeat. That's only 30 sentences / day.

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RJ
December 14, 2007, 01:50 PM

"who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?" "It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is over-rul'd by fate."

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matthiask
December 14, 2007, 02:50 PM

Luckily I can collect my own sentences :)

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goulnik
December 14, 2007, 03:25 PM

so then, pick up 10 Newbie lessons on topics of interest to you, if you combine the dialogue with the Fix, each lesson should give you about 10 sentences, one lesson a day.

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RonInDC
December 14, 2007, 03:55 PM

Yeah, you may want to stay away from Shakespeare for now "-) But Goulniky has a great plan.

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daizi
December 14, 2007, 04:07 PM

Simply memorize: 一百句汉语 Yībǎi jù Hànyǔ

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matthiask
December 14, 2007, 04:24 PM

hey xiaodai, :-) I wanna keep my girlfriend. But I will definitely become a fix addict over the next 10 days. Thank you all for your comments so far

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bazza
December 14, 2007, 06:42 PM

Why do we all post one sentence each? One of my recently learnt favourites: 我一点也不知道 wǒ yī diǎn yě bù zhī dao I haven't a clue

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bazza
December 14, 2007, 01:34 PM

Of course that would be a lie. It takes at least 2 hours for love to get it's claws into your heart. ;)

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henning
December 14, 2007, 07:59 PM

Actually you should get the complete book and memorize it. It is really incredibly hilarious.

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goulnik
December 15, 2007, 08:13 AM

Bazza, matthiask wants 'freely spoken' by him by which he means fluency I guess, so he needs a recording he can play over and over, text only won't work. How about song lyrics though?

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AuntySue
December 15, 2007, 08:22 AM

Learning sentences from songs will give you the wrong tones, so what you say will make no sense at all, or worse.

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goulnik
December 15, 2007, 08:40 AM

who says he shouldn't sing the song too?

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matthiask
December 15, 2007, 12:37 PM

hey bazza, I like your sentence. It's in my list.

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bazza
December 15, 2007, 01:26 PM

Here is one that may get a laugh: 我需要你的衣服,靴子还有摩托车。 wǒ xū yào nǐ de yī fu, xuē zi hái yǒu mó tuō chē. I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. ;)

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bazza
December 15, 2007, 01:34 PM

I do have an audio clip of that sentence as well. http://www.bazzanet.com/terminator.mp3

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Joachim
December 15, 2007, 01:35 PM

How about today's lesson with flowers?

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henning
December 14, 2007, 07:47 PM

You should definately learn the following title of a book we bought for my kids in Beijing: 不是我干的 bú shì wǒ gànde I didn't do it