Comments on: Learn Chinese fast with Matadorian Justin White

By: Bbsilvers

Bbsilvers — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:33:00 +0000

Actually the Wade-Giles is t’ai-chi-ch’uan (those apostrophes, diacritical marks, and superscripts for tones make WG more accurate than any other romanization system).

By: pedantic

pedantic — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Taijiquan in pinyin romanization and Taichichuan in Wade-Giles.

By: What NOT to Do in China

What NOT to Do in China — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:33:02 +0000

[...] are you?”, and “What is your name?“ constantly, it makes sense to learn these phrases in Mandarin and throw them back at your verbal [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:04:39 +0000

The Rocket Chinese language software may be a bit pricey at $99 but it is a whole lot cheaper than the Rosetta Stone Chinese language software. I also left China a couple of years ago and lost much of my conversational Chinese skills.

I have kept up my studies with a couple of different online software packages and Rocket Chinese is my favorite because they incorporate many different types of exercises in their programs.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:42:27 +0000

Ok, the world really IS small. Let us know if you try the program.

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:30:00 +0000

Ah Julie – I get all misty and sentimental whenever you mention Fuzhou. That’s where I first met my youngest daughter, nearly 8 years ago, now

Before travelling to Fuzhou, I bought a mini-Mandarin language programme, mostly for fun; I mean, Chinese – way too difficult to learn, right? Amazingly, it wasn’t very hard at all! With only a total of 4 hours’ listening/repeating, I made myself easily understood – asking directions, ordering beers, food… Even more amazingly, 8 years later, the 100 or so words and sentences still sit.

This post was a cool reminder to extend the vocab a bit – might just try Justin’s programme. Thanks!