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FieryIce

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Posted on 05-21-11 08:09:25 PM Link | Quote
On Mandarin: Week two has ended and I think progress has slowed down a tiny bit but overall it went great.


  • I think I'm at around 150 hanzi.
  • I can recognize a bunch of radicals which has made learning the hanzi a lot easier. I can read and write far better than I can manage a simple spoken conversation, though.
  • I understand small phrases (sometimes whole sentences) in songs I listen to and TV shows.
  • I know the most common classifiers and I improved my pronunciation dramatically (according to a Chinese friend).
  • Sometimes I forget the tones for words that are otherwise the same.
  • Sometimes I hear the "r" in "rén" as a "zh" and I have trouble pronouncing "rì".
  • Right-to-left horizontal lines throw me off sometimes.
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Posted on 05-21-11 08:17:22 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
On Mandarin: Week two has ended and I think progress has slowed down a tiny bit but overall it went great.


  • I think I'm at around 150 hanzi.
  • I can recognize a bunch of radicals which has made learning the hanzi a lot easier. I can read and write far better than I can manage a simple spoken conversation, though.
  • I understand small phrases (sometimes whole sentences) in songs I listen to and TV shows.
  • I know the most common classifiers and I improved my pronunciation dramatically (according to a Chinese friend).
  • Sometimes I forget the tones for words that are otherwise the same.
  • Sometimes I hear the "r" in "rén" as a "zh" and I have trouble pronouncing "rì".
  • Right-to-left horizontal lines throw me off sometimes.





Nice! That's amazing considering you are learning one of the hardest-to-learn languages!
I'm self learning a language over the summer, trying to complete my goal of being perfectly fluent in three languages by the end of highschool.
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Posted on 05-21-11 08:59:17 PM (last edited by Arp1033 at 05-21-11 05:59 PM) Link | Quote
..I can speak some Spanish!
FieryIce

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Posted on 05-21-11 09:01:56 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Arp1033
..I can speak some Spanish!


¡Genial! ¡Deberíamos tener un foro en español aquí en Jul!

Spanish is my first language; I didn't learn English until I was about 14 years old.
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Posted on 05-21-11 09:03:42 PM Link | Quote


Originally posted by FieryIce
Originally posted by Arp1033
..I can speak some Spanish!


¡Genial! ¡Deberíamos tener un foro en español aquí en Jul!

Spanish is my first language; I didn't learn English until I was about 14 years old.


Nice. Spanish is my third language. I could understand all that you said, but I'm still quite far from fluent, I still have yet to learn most of the subjunctive tense and a lot of vocabulary.

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Posted on 05-21-11 09:06:36 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by ParaLax
Originally posted by FieryIce
Originally posted by Arp1033
..I can speak some Spanish!


¡Genial! ¡Deberíamos tener un foro en español aquí en Jul!

Spanish is my first language; I didn't learn English until I was about 14 years old.


Nice. Spanish is my third language. I could understand all that you said, but I'm still quite far from fluent, I still have yet to learn most of the subjunctive tense and a lot of vocabulary.


Ah, what is the other language? I can also speak French and Italian very well, and some German (which is my college major). I'm not fluent in either though, I have never had the chance to use them extensively enough.
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Posted on 05-21-11 10:47:47 PM (last edited by Metal_Man88 at 05-21-11 07:48 PM) Link | Quote
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I know a little German and Spanish too.

Das ist alle ich mache.

Pero, yo no estoy perezoso a otre cosas.
(Probably mangled and mispelled, meh.)

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Posted on 05-21-11 11:30:44 PM Link | Quote
I took Spanish classes for years, but basically remember none of it.

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Posted on 05-21-11 11:32:35 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Imajin
I took Spanish classes for years, but basically remember none of it.


Same with German for me. I had it for 5-6 years, but I can't remember much of it at all.
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Posted on 05-22-11 12:17:35 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by ParaLax
Same with German for me. I had it for 5-6 years, but I can't remember much of it at all.

Well it seems to be sufficient to converse with me, so it can't be this little...

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Posted on 05-22-11 12:25:00 AM Link | Quote
I studied German for about 2 years, even going to Germany for a while for study abroad. I don't remember very much anymore, though.

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Posted on 05-22-11 12:38:59 AM Link | Quote
If you don't use it, you lose it.

That's why I try to speak French as much as possible around here; if I'm at a store and the clerk/cashier's speaking French, I'll play along. Of course, if it's English then I'm not going to complain at all.

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Posted on 05-22-11 12:39:37 AM Link | Quote
Yeah. I lost my French skills by not using that language at all. It is rather sad.

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Posted on 05-22-11 12:52:36 AM Link | Quote

Sorry to change the subject but...

What happened to ParaLax?

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Posted on 05-22-11 12:56:36 AM Link | Quote
He overposted.

Originally posted by the JCS so far
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Posted on 05-22-11 01:37:14 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Colin
If you don't use it, you lose it.

That's why I try to speak French as much as possible around here; if I'm at a store and the clerk/cashier's speaking French, I'll play along. Of course, if it's English then I'm not going to complain at all.


Nous pouvons parler en français si tu veux, j'aimerais pouvoir l'utiliser de nouveau ! C'est vraiment difficile de trouver quelqu'un avec qui parler par ici.
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Bienvenue. Parle vous Francais... ...not really. I just know a bunch of random words.

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FieryIce

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Posted on 05-22-11 02:27:40 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Metal_Man88
Bienvenue. Parle vous Francais... ...not really. I just know a bunch of random words.


Omelette du fromage ?

I also know a bunch of random words in several languages.
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Posted on 05-22-11 08:04:11 AM Link | Quote
Ok, I THOUGHT I spoke Spanish, but I apparently speak less that I thought...
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Posted on 05-22-11 05:46:44 PM (last edited by ImMaybeMarc at 05-22-11 02:48 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
Originally posted by Colin
If you don't use it, you lose it.

That's why I try to speak French as much as possible around here; if I'm at a store and the clerk/cashier's speaking French, I'll play along. Of course, if it's English then I'm not going to complain at all.


Nous pouvons parler en français si tu veux, j'aimerais pouvoir l'utiliser de nouveau ! C'est vraiment difficile de trouver quelqu'un avec qui parler par ici.


On a toujours l'impression qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup de personne qui parlent français sur internet pusique l'anglais est la langue majoritaire xD



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