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Old 01-24-2012, 12:16 PM   #1
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Self-learning Mandarin Chinese tools/programs/tips?

Yeah, so I'm an asian who can't speak mandarin. Or when I do, people laugh lol. Parents never sent me to chinese school, bla bla, I spoke chinese better when I was a kid but I forgot 90% of it.

Anyways, I want to be close to fluent by the end of college. I'm a high school senior now. I don't know how realistic learning a language is in college while pursuing majors in science/business, but I want to at least try and become semi-competent in chinese lol. And I want a head start so I don't have to start in Chinese 1 in college.

Any tips? Programs? Advice? Tools? Classes? I know lots of you on CC are asian and can speak mandarin. Bang zhi wo xue zhon wen (maybe that can testify to how bad my chinese isl lol ). I guess I'm also willing to pay for a summer course to learn.

Oh and I'd sign up for chinese school, but I don't feel like being in a class with 7 yr olds lol
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Old 01-24-2012, 12:22 PM   #2
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Hi,
I recently took up Chinese, too. I'm not a native speaker, but my school offered Mandarin Chinese so I jumped in in the second semester. A really useful site for vocab is Memrise (with pronunciation, too) , and nciku - Online English Chinese Dictionary, Learn Chinese Mandarin Online for dictionary. I've been using them, and last weekend I could catch up with more or less 100 words and used them to help on Chinese quizzes, which are held every week.
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