Fill in your conversational Chinese gaps a bit
Written By: 孙智谦 on February 8, 2010
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| It seems like the longer you study a language, the harder it becomes to improve in your ability to speak it. You get into a rut where you’re comfortable talking about certain subjects, and that’s what you talk about, so you hit a plateau. It’s really easy to get stuck on these plateaus and stop progressing. And then you find that, while you can express some pretty complex thoughts on certain subjects, you’re essentially lost as to what to say in some of the most basic situations. “Nciku Conversations” helps fill in some of the gaps. It’s a section of nciku.com that features short, basic Mandarin conversations. Each conversation is given in Pinyin and Chinese characters and has an idiomatic English translation underneath. You can also click on the “Listen” button to hear the conversation read aloud by a not-quite-natural-but-pretty-close computerized person. Using the site in conjunction with the excellent Firefox extension Perakun, you can analyze the meaning of each word and phrase within each sentence to get a better grasp on the grammatical structure of the conversation. Check it out here. |
Hello,
I have seen you have listed some links about learning
Chinese at http://www.due-east.org/
Just wondering if you could also add http://www.chinese-course.com/ to
the list, which is a fairly new site to learn Chinese.
It has some nice features like your own word lists, mouseover
explanations, a loop flashcard feature, a text analyzer and
we publish a new text (dialog, jokes, news) every week.
I would love to hear your feedback about my site.
Regards,
Oliver