Speak DECENT CHINESE in 4 months - 8 easy tips
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1. Have someone to guide you to get good pronunciation habits. It is almost impossible to re-learn bad habits later so make sure you get your pronunciation right from the beginning. I mean the pronunciation of the sounds, not the tones. Tones take more time to get used to and you can't rush it - but try the best you can. Some tutors don't bother too much about the pronunciation so make sure you find someone who is strict about that, you will be grateful later. Also get confident in pinyin, you will need it.
2. Understand the composition of the sentences. The word order is super easy and it stays the same all the time (the question and informative sentences have the same word order). I have a formula for the word order but I won't reveal it here, it is one of the secrets I keep for my students and people who use my materials.
3. Understand that there are no tenses in the sense we think about them in English and other languages. Learn to express future, potential future, finished action, change of state, experience in the past and circumstances of the event. See the difference between action verbs and verbs of state.
4. Learn to use modal verbs and conjuctions.
5. Build usable vocabulary based on the fact that everything in Chinese is interconnected.
6. Understand 就, 才,的 and 得
7. Don't learn grammar rules and words separately. Learn functional practical sentences that will serve you as examples of the grammar structures (then you just need to change the words in these sentences).
8. Develop your listening skills - that is very important. For that there are Youtube channels and podcasts on Spotify (and in my materials the audio part also plays an important role). You can listen to Chinese radio stations just to get the feeling of the language.
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After 3-4 months you should feel pretty confident in normal conversations if you study regularly under competent guidance.
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|| 07.22.23 || It brings me so much joy that I’m finally able to write full-on daily and unit lesson plans. To make it fun, I’ve been adding mathematical comics such as this one (first image) to my cover pages. Here’s an example of an angle relationship problem I formed, too (second image). Very excited to start my student teaching in August! 💁🏼♀️👩🏼🏫
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山很高,海很深 /shān hěn gāo, hǎi hěn shēn/
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1.5.23
productivity & self care:
mixing & production studies
duolingo: italian, chinese
audiobook: finished Douglas Adams Life The Universe And Everything, started Angela Davis Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
walked dog
face mask after bath
caught up on new youtube videos
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