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Welcome back!
Finally we are back to business! My blog had some technical problems these days and unfortunately at the same time my webhosting staff was at the Easter holiday. But now we are back and lets first review what have happened during this week. I posted my Mandarin Monday video to Youtube: You can also watch the same video on Youku! I have painfully realized that my pronunciation and tones need a lot of work. I’ve got great help from more experiences language Chinese learners and already started experimenting with different methods to improve my spoken Chinese. I will write more about this in the future. Las month I got a…
Fluent Mandarin in three months? I’m not convinced
It’s been three months since Benny Lewis at Fluent in 3 Months started learning Mandarin in Taiwan. He still haven’t uploaded his three month video, but the time is up and lets take a look if it’s possible to get fluent in Mandarin in just three short months. (I really tried to make this post a bit shorter!) First lets review and go to the beginning of his mission. What was his goal? “this is day one of my mission to speak fluent Mandarin in 3 months! “ “That’s fluency as in being able to do most of what I can do in English, in social situations in Mandarin.” “I…
Becoming fluent in Chinese: March Goal Check-In
It’s time for my monthly Mandarin goals check-in! Listening 13 episodes of Chinese TV and 24 episodes of American TV. A big fail! I finished with 幸福三颗星 and found a new series I enjoy called 夫妻那些事, but I still haven’t managed to get hooked on it as well as to my American TV favourites. I think that the best part of watching those English language series is to get a small break to my other so full of Chinese life. I will continue to let myself to have those breaks, but I also want to get the numbers more even. Besides watching TV I’ve also started to occasionally listen to…