20 Years too late
There are some items that i recently bought that would greatly further help me in my self development. With these, I should be able to communicate better, expand my network and increase my capabilities beyond my current boundaries.
I’ll show them to you people,
But please…
don’t laugh.
As much as I know… I don’t know my own mother tongue. The shame has not hit me until only as of recent. I can’t read, I can’t write and I can’t speak mandarin to save my own life. I can’t even write my own name in Chinese. o_O
It’s that bad…
Since I have no time to even dedicate myself to an Adult Mandarin course, off to popular I go. Elaine helped me pick these couple of titles out (I can’t believe you actually tried to linguistically prescribe me FLASH CARDS woman) Books for radicals, writing, pairing, phrases, coloring (yes coloring) and a story book of some chocolate bear biscuits o_O
I’m now diligently practicing, scripts out of books for ages 3 to 4.
I’ll also need a couple of interesting Taiwanese drama series (With subs) and a few Chinese Songs to get hooked onto my MP3 player. Any recommendations?
I figure its going to be quite a while before I can pick up a Chinese Newspaper for reading.
All the best April. Thumbs up from me! And I promise you no laughing. Kambate!
i understand u. my shoes are roughly the same as urs too…
April Jia you!!!
u need help come n find me ^^. Ingrid also can, she’s fully chinese educated. ehehe.
Hey April, judos for starting somewhere… I was doing the same thing 14 years ago… but it was more convenient for me as my mum had lots of stock… I would recommend not watching Taiwanese shows just yet as Taiwanese Mandarin is different from Malaysian Mandarin… we use the new version while they are still using the traditional version so you might get yourself all confused… I do recommend watching music videos of local children’s songs though… that helps heaps…
加油！
：）
Mandarin isn’t all that hard to learn. I memorise characters by imagining them as hieroglyphs.
I also read Chinese-translated manga (my cousin had plenty of those); Chinese songs from Emil Chau, Jacky Cheung, et al. But not useful without lyrics.
Reading and speaking is relatively easy. Writing, however… .
All the best with it!