Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
If you're watching the Olympics in China (as I am) here are some words that come up all the time on the TV that you might as well know (if you don't already).
It's so hard to use the TV as listening practice, I thought I'd try to help stack the ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
There are various reasons why listening comprehension in Chinese is difficult. In addition to those máfan tones, a homonym minefield, and countless regional accent variations, it's also important to know Chinese has reductions. Much in the same way English has words that get crunched together and some sounds ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Brought to you by the National Foreign Language Center of the University of Maryland, a new 35 lesson packet designed to supplement Chinese reading classes has just been released for free online. Even if your not into learning hanzi characters, some of these lessons (not the "Playful Song" one) ...
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