Finished ChinesePod CD1
Ok I've finished the first CD I made from the ChinesePod podcasts.
This is working out well actually. There are a few words they have had in the podcasts that I wouldn't necessarily have thought of learning. But I think they will probably help a lot with my conversational skills. As opposed to my vocabulary.
I still intend to make another jMemorize flashcard file of my own list of words and have already started working on it, but I am now also going to put some of the new words from the podcasts into a file to help me memorize them as well.
I wont put this file online but here are the words/phrases I've included so far from the first six podcasts on CD1.
xue2 xiao4 = School
ma3 ma3 hu3 hu3 = So-so
zhen1 de ma = Really?
wei4 shen2 me = Why?
yin1 wei2 = because
kai1 xin1 = Feel happy
nan2 guo4 = Upset
wo3 bu4 neng2 shuo1 = I'm unable to say.
pu3 tong1 = normal, standard
This is working out well actually. There are a few words they have had in the podcasts that I wouldn't necessarily have thought of learning. But I think they will probably help a lot with my conversational skills. As opposed to my vocabulary.
I still intend to make another jMemorize flashcard file of my own list of words and have already started working on it, but I am now also going to put some of the new words from the podcasts into a file to help me memorize them as well.
I wont put this file online but here are the words/phrases I've included so far from the first six podcasts on CD1.
xue2 xiao4 = School
ma3 ma3 hu3 hu3 = So-so
zhen1 de ma = Really?
wei4 shen2 me = Why?
yin1 wei2 = because
kai1 xin1 = Feel happy
nan2 guo4 = Upset
wo3 bu4 neng2 shuo1 = I'm unable to say.
pu3 tong1 = normal, standard
posted by John at 7:44 PM
3 Comments:
Hi John,
I find Chinesepod kind of keeps growing on you, the more you use it the more useful it becomes. Interested to find your blog as I have a simliar mission. My blog is at http://friedelcraft.blogspot.com
You seem to have the energy to post more often and I like some of images , mine looks a little bland.
Keep up the good work perhaps we could get in touch at some point.
Hi Chris,
Actually I have been keeping an eye on your blog ever since you got a mention on the ChinesePod weblog. It is interesting to watch how another newbie is going.
Your blog seems to be a bit more focused than mine. I have a tendency to drift off the Learning Chinese track a lot of the time, but I find Chinese culture as a whole very interesting and putting a bit of variety into this blog helps to keep me motivated.
Good luck with your study. It would be good to compare notes with you sometimes.
Chinesepod is connecting the dots it seems :).
I spotted your blog when it got a mention there too. There is nothing wrong with the cultural aspect it is all part of the learning process (or the reason for it). I just haven't found a way to express that yet.
I am sure we will talk again at some point, maybe even entirely in Mandarin but I a long way off from that at the momenet.
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