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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Go to www.chinesepod.com (or look for Chineses in itunes podcasts) you can download tons of lessons for free and get tons of other stuff on the website for $$$....all I can say about chinesepod is...na ge dongxi hen how (yes I know its crude but whatever)...just throw the lessons onto a CD or your ipod and practice/practice/practice
I have taken classes and wouldn't recommend the ones I took since they focused heavily on character recongition...I just wanted to learn how to speak Mandarin for survival |
Fantastic...this is just what I've been looking for
My fiance and her parents are all Mandarin-speaking immigrants (6 years in Canada now) and I would like to strengthen our relationship by learning to speak Mandarin.
Having learned to speak 4 other languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, French, and German) so far in my life, taking on an Asiatic language appears to be the biggest challenge I could take. But, if she could speak astonishingly fluent English after only this amount of time with only a year or two of foraml instruction, I'm confident I could learn at least rudimentary Mandarin in about a year ;D