Hi
leonard90
August 19, 2008, 06:33 PM posted in General DiscussionNorway here=) studying chinese because of Wu Shu (martial art)
leonard90
August 19, 2008, 06:47 PMHi there, I'm study taolu the type chang quan (长拳). I have been on Beijing Sport Unviersity but only 2 weeks, I will go back there for 3-5 years so need the language=) But it's very difficult to come on the international level. but I'm no involved in the shaolin system just the regular wushu practicing.
Have you been in China before?
marcelbdt
August 19, 2008, 07:08 PMOh, I'm in Denmark, and I have actually never been to China, But it is a very interesting country, and I'm sure that one day I'll go there. In the meantime, I'm just practising the language.
It's quite an oppurtunity for you to study for several years in Beijing, you must be good at what you are doing.
leonard90
August 19, 2008, 07:18 PMYeah I will learn a lot chinese and 武术 in China, I will practice 武术 in the morning and then chinese in the afternoon on the school.
What bring you to China the future? Maybe you could practice 武术=)
marcelbdt
August 19, 2008, 07:34 PMNah, I'd never learn to do that walking-on-the-air thing they do in the movies..:)
I have no concrete plans for visiting it, at the moment I'm just enjoying myself learning Chinese, mostly by reading it and listening to Chinesepod lessons.
leonard90
August 19, 2008, 07:50 PMHehe okey=)
Yeah the chinesepod is really good to learn chinese, I learn more faster and bether here then other websites!
marcelbdt
August 19, 2008, 08:05 PMI'm thinking that we could use this place to collect resources on China and Chinese language written in Scandinavian languages. There must be a few, certainly more than I know of. To start with, do you know any interesting links?
leonard90
August 20, 2008, 03:30 AMNo sorry, I only know this page www.eurotalk.com there you can learn chinese and maybe about the culture there. Its maybe like the english books we have on school. you learn english and something about england!
And by the way, later this days I did pay for 6 months but if I buy 6 months more will it be 12 months then?
mandarinboy
August 24, 2008, 05:50 AMYes it will. If you add more days they will add to your total number of days. If you upgrae or downgrade that will also change the number of days you have in total. So, if you have 6 month now with premium and downgrade to basic you will have a heck of a lot of basic days e.g. Smooth.
leonard90
August 28, 2008, 02:59 PM谢谢=)
marcelbdt
August 19, 2008, 06:38 PMHi Leonard90 from Norway! What kind of Wu Shu are you practising? I never tried that myself, but I understand that it involves a lot of culture and language.
There is a lecture about the Shaolin monastery somewhere on Chinesepod, but I think it deals more with culture and history than with actual martial arts.