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I'm looking to improve my French which is currently at a lower intermediate level. My main focus is on speaking.
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Yadan
Chinese (Mandarin)
Mar 28, 2017
本来我们在聊骑自行车的故事，然后就聊到很多社会的问题，哈哈！但是每次聊天都很有趣！ We were talking about biking first, and then the conversation became social issues, Haha! but it's always fun chat every time!
Yadan
Chinese (Mandarin)
Mar 21, 2017
我们聊了聊我这次的旅行和Dickon的最近的生活，每次的话题都很有趣！ we talked about my trip and what Dickon had been doing, our conversation always end up on a very interesting topic~
Pauline Liu
Chinese (Mandarin)
Mar 17, 2017
Dickon is a great student, have knowledge in depth, it is my pleasure to help him on his journey :)!
Ju Yang in Berlin
Chinese (Mandarin)
Mar 12, 2017
Dickon has a very solid basis on Chinese language. He speaks very fluently on general topics, with almost no difficulty in making himself understood. For some words, people may still detect that he is a non-native speaker, but for general situation he can speak almost with the same fluency as natives. He can further improve his Chinese by expanding his vocabulary in other areas. To this end, reading Chinese newspaper is one way. Good luck and hope to see you again!
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  • Commented

    I knew no Chinese 8 months ago and now easily chat with friends on wechat, can read childrens books and get the gist of a newspaper. How?

     

    Download pleco dictionary, upgrade to premium (so you can used spaced repetition flash card shows) and work your way through the HSK character set. This is great for recognition but it doesn't help you understand grammar structures so once you can recognise the HSK 1,2,3, and 4 character sets (about 1200 characters)  or maybe a bit earlier, start reading childrens books but continue with the flashcards as well.

     

    The HSK card sets are very heavy on all of the common verbs, adverbs, adjectives etc but a bit light on nouns, especially proper nouns. For those I use an app called fun easy learn chinese, it has a few mistakes but its pretty good.

     

    The most important thing is not to try and write the characters, just recognise them as it will require a huge amount of your memory and its not that useful especially today with pinyin inputs.

     

    It is a hugely time consuming venture (I spent about 5 hours a day looking at flashcards for the first couple of months) but now I'm reading chinese translations of Tintin and other cool stuff its just enormously good fun.

     

    Recognising the characters also makes listening a lot easier because most chinese TV shows have subtitles. If the speech is too fast but you can catch some characters its a lot easier to get the gist of what is going on.

     

    Good Luck

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    November 25, 2015
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  • Answered
    Virtually all British people are against the death penalty. It is a knee jerk human reaction to want to kill somebody who has killed another person but also a very primitive one. There are all sorts of reasons as to why it shouldn't be done. The most obvious being that often innocent people are convicted. You can release an innocent person from jail but you can't bring them back from the dead. Furthermore, if we kill murderers does that make us any better than the murderer. The idea of revenge killing is very outdated in the UK. Of course the situation in America is very different, maybe an American would like to explain that.
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    November 19, 2015
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