ni hao, first time learner
narcoticrex
August 26, 2011, 03:16 AM posted in General DiscussionHello everyone, I am a noob to Chinese language, and came across this site via a search for best ways to learn Chinese. I took advantage of the free week, and have been listening to the podcasts at work, and picking it up! I am just listening to lessons over and over ad add in a couple new ones every day...the android app is AMAZING, what a great tool! I just load it up at work and can listen to either the podcast or the lesson review, both are great and I have learned quite a bit in just a few days. The Android app alone is worth the $60 a year.
Request for the Android app: A "playlist" feature, where I could go through the lessons, and select either the podcast, the dialogue or the review (perhaps by a long press) and add it to a playlist, so I could load up an hours worth of lessons at a time. I listen to Jenny and Ken for at least 3 hours a day, and thats a lot of hitting the Back button and touching the screen!
Glad to have found this site, it has me speaking Chinese phrases and understanding what Im hearing in a very short amount of time, due to the excellent breakdown of the sentences and literal translations.
And the community seems excellent, glad to be here!
narcoticrex
I have a quick question - how to I add the tone marks to the pinyin I am writing in the exercises area?
Also, would you recommend jumping in and trying to learn the chinese characters right off the bat, or learning as a child would, and learn a vocabulary first and then learn how to write?
delvi
that depends...do you plan on going to china? if so then i would study them at the same time..they have great resources on this site...and make sure to review the characters you've memorized from time to time or you'll forget
jennyzhu
August 26, 2011, 03:33 AMFirst, welcome and thank you very much for your feedback!
I'm very glad to hear your progress within a short time. Keep up the great work!