spoonfed chinese anki deck I've liked so far and have heard good things
Blake Anderson
>first day of work in chinese restaurant >talk to coworkers that are fluent in dutch and some chinese dialects >am the only one from canto >ask me to say a few swear words because bantering around >i say "diew leeke moke chauw hai" something something stinking vagina (bad at pin yin lmao) >what they actually meant was something like pokkai >they get a bit angry
also thanks for listening to my blog
Nathaniel Cooper
nasty
Parker Gomez
lmao CHING CHONG BING BONG
Tyler Ortiz
I'm on the exec board of my school's Taiwanese student association and I'm 100% white(german) does this make it look like i have yellow fever?
Ian Brown
i want to learn what's the best way
Lincoln Myers
learn pinyin then learn tones then you're ready to start characters (grammar is about the same as English t.b.h)
my northern brother any tips on this journey you can give?
Aaron Gonzalez
hello
Gabriel Lee
你好嗎
Anthony Gray
I was thinking about buying a copy of the I ching the other day. Man,that book is huge and expensive. Maybe at christmas time.
Isaiah Jones
小日本? 日本鬼子?
Henry Rodriguez
Spoonfed chinese is the most fucking amazing thing ever I'm not even joking I seriously feel like I could get fluent with nothing else
Don't put hanzi on the front though fuck that. Pure listening.
I haven't tried pimsleur for chinese but in general I can't fucking stand language learning resources that are mostly English
Nicholas Lewis
I wanted to buy physical copies of the Hanyu da zidian but >$700
Charles Martin
gearbest + aliexpress/chinkshit general?
Jaxson Howard
It wasn't THAT expensive. It was around 5900 forints for the first part and then 5900 for the second part,I think that is around 21 dollars/part. I am too much of a jew to pay 42 dollars for something.
Caleb Baker
really? I feel like it's teaching me hanzi as well but i don't know if i'm just using it as a crunch.
how far are you with it?
Grayson Cooper
i love my zircons so fucking much
Jason Scott
Nej, This is more about language and culture. Check over at They have a thread up and they are a nice bunch
Evan Rivera
你好支那畜共 我々日本人憎悪中国犬共 行地獄 ^ - ^
Kayden Gray
I learned mandarin at an American university for 3 years, then dropped out in after the recession caused my family to go damn near homeless.
I've forgotten everything since then since there's really no one around me to practice speaking. Every time a Euro circlejerks about how many languages they know, I just remember how cursed I am to be a.) speaking the lingua franca of the century and b.) living in an area with a 200 mile radius of people who pretty much only know English.
Except for those cunts in Cicero. Hopefully Trump will deport them back to Mexico.
Ryder Parker
>tfw you love Chinese history and culture, and would love to read the 13 classics in original but you can't tolerate the language
Ching chong ling long ting tong, how can such a refined society have such a hideous language? This isn't fair!
Carter Gray
I'm about 1000 in, so not too far, but I definitely feel good progress. I know japanese so I have no problem with hanzi, but I think the advice I'm trying to give is not to have both on the front at the same time. If you have both the listening and the hanzi on the front, I think you'll end up not training either as well as you could otherwise. So, even if you want to have sentence cards in hanzi, I think you should have 2 cards for each note, one pure listening and one pure reading. But I also just don't feel like reading sentence cards is nearly as useful as just reading material that is approximately your level. The problem with sentences is that often parts of the sentence work as hints for other parts of the sentence due to memorization. Like, you hear "feet" and you're like "oh, that's the sentence about putting socks on". With listening I think this isn't a big deal as long as you make sure you can catch all the words, but for reading I think it hurts a bit more.
I think hanzi are best learnt outside of the spoonfed chinese deck. My rec would be to have a separate vocab deck (possibly with example sentences) and through some sort of magic such as peaking ahead at the spoonfed chinese deck, just make sure every word has already been added to your vocab deck a day or two before you end up seeing it in your vocab deck.
Aaron Foster
You can still try the hungarian translations. Or the english ones
Ethan Torres
Went to a bookstore and found some Cultural Revolution era Chinese readers targeted at Chinese learners. The stories are actually pretty advanced level stuff and seem interesting. I feel like there weren't too many Chinese learners back in that time.
Noah White
chinks are scum
Ayden Sanders
Back before the internet anyone serious about language learning had to actually go to the country and spend significant time there
Landon Turner
True. And that still remains the best way to improve your language abilities.
Oliver Wright
Beautiful user. Are the Hungarian translations any good? I was gonna go for the English ones (you know how Hungarian translators tend to mistranslate things).
Logan Barnes
It's not a method of language learning. It's a method of immersion. Talking to a chinese person in china or watching a chinese movie in china isn't any better than doing the same thing in any other country. Going to the country just gives you easier access to those things.
Gabriel Scott
The Translation of Tao te King by Weöres is rather good. I would recommend getting the pocketbook edition you see on the shelf. A vörös szoba álma is a shit translation,it contains only 50 chapters and it's based on the german version. Si King is great,our greatest poets worked on it. You can't go wrong with the art of war that much,there are a few translations out there.(A hadakozás regulái vs. A háború művészete)
Nicholas Watson
Also,good luck finding any of this shit. The last edition of the Annalects of confucius in hungarian was printed in the 80s.
Gabriel Gutierrez
> Find a chinese m/f qt, to help you learn. I have a girl who I call with each day, reading texts and helping me pronounce.