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Sep 28, 2008 19:35
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I was considering trying to learn chinese if i decide to go there or live there for like a year. I was thinking about using one of those audio programs such as Pimsleur. I was wondering if anyone has tried something like that and how much sucess they had. I was also wondering how hard people found it to learn chinese.
Sep 29, 2008 13:47
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Pimsleur is good. If you have time to sit at a computer, Rosetta Stone and others like it are okay. However, even if you study hard it will be 3 years before you can really begin to communicate. Chinese is more complicated to learn than most other languages because: the characters have no phonetic value; written pinyin is not understood by older Chinese people; using a Chinese dictionary brings an entire new meaning to the child's complaint, "How do I look up a word if I do not know how to spell it?"; and tonal qualities in speaking are different words not merely inflection.
Sep 29, 2008 18:40
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I need to translate emails written in pinyin to English. Can't find anything on net. Babelfish,google translate don't work. Advice? gmail.com|ekimnnud
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