Question from Quora and my response: In a bit of a similar situation myself. I am learning Chinese while living in California in an area without a lot of Chinese people. There are a few Chinese …
12 Videos Across Two Years of Learning Mandarin Chinese
Started in March 2014. For nine months I listened quite a bit and repeated what I heard on the Pimsleur program. I got it from the library. At that point I began to explore other options. I knew a …
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Video for CHN 101, Shi Laoshi 石老师, University of Oregon
(Chinese/Pinyin/English Translation) 1. 大家好 我叫Neal 我住在加州 我学了中文一年半了 2. Dàjiā hǎo wǒ jiào Neal wǒ zhù zài jiāzhōu wǒ xuéle zhōngwén yī nián bànle 3. Hello everyone My name is Neal I live in …
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Learning from Mistakes in Chinese, Mistake #1
You can feel bad about mistakes or you can learn from them. Chinese isn't the easiest language in the world, so I make mistakes all the time. But I don't feel bad about them. I also do not ignore …
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Accents and Emphasis in Spanish
I have been talking with another person in the #add1challenge about Spanish and listened pretty carefully to her day zero video, in which I could hear what she sounded like in Spanish right now. One …
Six Words in 1.2 Seconds! Hearing the Wrong Thing, Examples in English and Chinese
The other day I was playing the Listen Speak Game and a couple rounds made me laugh. I got only one word right out of six! And with a different person in a different round, the other person got two …