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| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5446 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 105 of 314 11 January 2015 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Korean Resources
Dictionaries Naver - http://bit.ly/1xJiGVi Daum - http://bit.ly/1xSl9xR Grammar Korean Grammatical Forms - http://bit.ly/1xdDJf5 Webtoons Naver - http://bit.ly/14L17tK Daum - http://bit.ly/1B6cppm Nate - http://bit.ly/1xSlvVa Podcasts http://bit.ly/14lCWle iTunes (via the South Korean store) Korean TV (legal streaming) On Demand Korea (raw, no subs)- http://bit.ly/1DNkgYb Viki - http://bit.ly/1nIPR8B DramaFever - http://bit.ly/LgZyuf Soompi - http://bit.ly/1ICYVBG 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4963 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 106 of 314 12 January 2015 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Rem , I personally have no experience with HSK, but you may try posting at Sprachprofi's log. She's reached the equivalent to C1 in Mandarin. Her 2015 log:
Sprachprofi (she's not taking part at any other teams). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4594 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 107 of 314 13 January 2015 at 3:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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rdearman is also learning Mandarin and here is his log. I'm thinking of contacting the
Mandarin learners who are not on the team and asking them to make a few posts here on the thread on their learning tools and strategies, for the Mandarin learners out here. I know I definitely want to learn Mandarin, so it would be very beneficial for me too. What do you guys think? EDIT: Fixed the link. Edited by Woodsei on 13 January 2015 at 10:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5662 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 108 of 314 13 January 2015 at 6:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've spoken a little bit about my Mandarin studies in my logs the past couple years, unfortunately the period of most intense active study (FSI) was while i didn't have internet so that didn't get logged here. But that's probably also why it was when i got the most studying done.
Here's what i did with Mandarin: -I started off with Pimsleur, but after the first level or so gave up on it. -After Pimsleur i switched over to Michel Thomas. Michel Thomas tends to put a lot of focus on verbs, but i don't really think that's a huge issue in Chinese. I did the foundation and advanced levels. I don't really remember being too impressed, but it wasn't an awful course either. -Then i switched to the main active study phase, which was FSI. FSI was often times painful. The structure of the course itself was ok and splitting it up into 20-30 minute sections helped be able to fit in smaller study sessions, but a lot of the vocab was reallly dated and the government terminology was just boring and hard for me to get through. Overall it taught me a lot, helped me a ton with pronunciation, and helped to get me speaking in Chinese, but there were a lot of rough moments. -After FSI, i put my focus into NPCR (New Practical Chinese Reader). I liked the series, (i did 1-4, i've heard its value in the 5th and 6th books drops substantially as it switches over to more literary Chinese), but i'm not sure if i would've liked it as my main course, especially as a self-study tool. The dialogs are ok and there's lots of useful vocab, though. -At some point in FSI i started using Skritter and Memrise to learn to read/write characters. Honestly, i'd put more effort into reading characters first as it's clearly more important than writing (typing is much easier than writing). However, when i couldn't get online i stopped both of those and switched over to Anki. -Just recently in the past year i was looking for a Chinese dictionary and ended up buying a cheap Android phone to put Pleco on it. I just use it as a small tablet for studying Chinese. Pleco is great and i wish i'd started it earlier. I'm currently going through the HSK6 list (i've got 1,500 words left out of 2,500, and 4,000+ total cards in my Pleco deck) and will hopefully have that finished in about 5 or 6 months. Lately i've also been using Subs2SRS to make decks out of movies and TV shows, which is helping me pick up more colloquial speech. If you've got any questions i'd be happy to answer. I'm still a far ways away from calling myself fluent, but i use Chinese to talk with my friends here in China and generally can get around just fine in Chinese. My comprehension is much better than my output, though. It's been a long journey (over three years now, i believe) and a lot more work than any other language i've ever studied. There were several times where i got frustrated at my lack of progress and stopped actively studying for months at a time, forgetting tons of characters and how to write basically everything, but now that i'm getting closer and closer to where i want to be in the language it's finally starting to feel worth it. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4594 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 109 of 314 13 January 2015 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Than you very much for your contribution to Mandarin learners, Crush!
Here's Crush's log for all you East Asian TACers out there. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4594 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 110 of 314 13 January 2015 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's the equivalent of the Korean webtoons CZ posted above, for Japanese.
Manga Got A Chance (マンガごっちゃ). It's by independent artists, and it's freely and legally available. I think it's a great concept. Hope you guys find it useful. Here's a walkthrough of the site to make things easier. Edited by Woodsei on 13 January 2015 at 10:53pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4399 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 111 of 314 14 January 2015 at 12:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everybody,
Sorry for the belated reply! I’m having some technical issues at the moment so I haven’t been able to be online much. I have already joined this team via the Wiki, but since I don’t see myself listed on the main page I leave a link to my log. The language I’ll be studying is Japanese.
If it requires the URL I think the only solution is to resize the images yourself, upload them to a free server and provide the URL of the resized version.
I’m a complete beginner in Japanese, but I’ll do my best to come up with something by the end of the month. I actually did study Japanese for a year, but that was a very long time ago so I’m pretty much starting from scratch. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while now so I ended up collecting quite a few different books over the years, now it’s time to put them to good use. Edited by suzukaze on 14 January 2015 at 1:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5332 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 112 of 314 14 January 2015 at 2:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Suzukaze: I'm an early beginner in Japanese as well, so I'm sure my intro will be equally
weak. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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