Hi, any help for learning chinese?
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Dragonpuppy
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Hi, any help for learning chinese?
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Snowplus
Re: Hi, any help for learning chinese?
HIHI,
happy to see this message, I'm a Hong Kong's Girl but i don't know whether u would like to learn to say in Cantonese or Putonghua?
If you want to learn Cantonese, i think i can help u, but actually i am finding someone who can teach me english, if we can share to learn, that will be a wonder things, do you agree?
wait for your reply
snowplus
happy to see this message, I'm a Hong Kong's Girl but i don't know whether u would like to learn to say in Cantonese or Putonghua?
If you want to learn Cantonese, i think i can help u, but actually i am finding someone who can teach me english, if we can share to learn, that will be a wonder things, do you agree?
wait for your reply
snowplus
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mikecalifornia
Re: Hi, any help for learning chinese?
Hi,
I was born here and my parents are from Hong Kong, but didn't really teach me too much Cantonese as they thought that I should learn the dominant language to fit in (my mom can speak English fluently). I can understand perhaps 40-80% of conversational Cantonese depending on the complexity, and know a few characters, but that is it. It is rather frustrating to think that my parents could actually have taught me both languages (multiple languages are easy to learn as children, but MUCH harder as adults). Oh well. So, I am (very) slowly doing this as an adult. I would like to take Cantonese language classes, but in the United States, mostly Mandarin is taught, except in cities with large Cantonese populations (e.g., UCLA). I am currently using a language course that I would recommend to you. It's Pimsleur Chinese (Cantonese) I, and has 30 half-hr lessons on 15 CDs. However, it is used only for speaking it, not for reading and writing Chinese-it's something like a listen-and-repeat format. I am working through them and found them to be quite useful, and the best self-teaching Cantonese course (I have tried quite a few). You can check it out at www.pimsleur.com (where it costs $350 US), but can get it cheaper at www.eBay.com and www.amazon.com for around $100-200 US. You can also read reviews of it on www.amazon.com. I only hope that Pimsleur will make Cantonese II, III, etc. I am also learning Spanish in a similar manner with Pimsleur. Good luck.
Mike
I was born here and my parents are from Hong Kong, but didn't really teach me too much Cantonese as they thought that I should learn the dominant language to fit in (my mom can speak English fluently). I can understand perhaps 40-80% of conversational Cantonese depending on the complexity, and know a few characters, but that is it. It is rather frustrating to think that my parents could actually have taught me both languages (multiple languages are easy to learn as children, but MUCH harder as adults). Oh well. So, I am (very) slowly doing this as an adult. I would like to take Cantonese language classes, but in the United States, mostly Mandarin is taught, except in cities with large Cantonese populations (e.g., UCLA). I am currently using a language course that I would recommend to you. It's Pimsleur Chinese (Cantonese) I, and has 30 half-hr lessons on 15 CDs. However, it is used only for speaking it, not for reading and writing Chinese-it's something like a listen-and-repeat format. I am working through them and found them to be quite useful, and the best self-teaching Cantonese course (I have tried quite a few). You can check it out at www.pimsleur.com (where it costs $350 US), but can get it cheaper at www.eBay.com and www.amazon.com for around $100-200 US. You can also read reviews of it on www.amazon.com. I only hope that Pimsleur will make Cantonese II, III, etc. I am also learning Spanish in a similar manner with Pimsleur. Good luck.
Mike