Four Days Fluent - Learning Chinese!
Funny article from Forbes on a 4 Day Immersion for Learning Chinese, self taught plus language lessons at Berlitz. Since he is an adult the material he uses I am not carrying.
The subliminal method for learning Chinese is something I have not heard of before. I understand the frustration when he goes to Chinatown and everyone is speaking Cantonese around him. My challenge is people speaking Taiwanese around me :-)
The reason that people speak Cantonese is because overseas Chinese often speak Cantonese (from Vietnam for example). The other is immigrants to the US who came over during the Gold Rush spoke Cantonese. New immigrants from China speak Cantonese, and if from outside of Northern China (Beijing) their local dialect. Post I had about Why Learn Mandarin Chinese, not Cantonese
Items that were not used for studying, that I have heard good things about are (I doubt they would have helped much to be fluent in 4 days):
The subliminal method for learning Chinese is something I have not heard of before. I understand the frustration when he goes to Chinatown and everyone is speaking Cantonese around him. My challenge is people speaking Taiwanese around me :-)
The reason that people speak Cantonese is because overseas Chinese often speak Cantonese (from Vietnam for example). The other is immigrants to the US who came over during the Gold Rush spoke Cantonese. New immigrants from China speak Cantonese, and if from outside of Northern China (Beijing) their local dialect. Post I had about Why Learn Mandarin Chinese, not Cantonese
Items that were not used for studying, that I have heard good things about are (I doubt they would have helped much to be fluent in 4 days):
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| Pimsleur Quick and Simple Mandarin Chinese: Mandarin | |||||||
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| Pimsleur Quick and Simple Mandarin Chinese: Mandarin (Spoken Word Compact Disc)  | |||||||
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| Pimsleur Conversational Mandarin Chinese | |||||||
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| Pimsleur Conversational Mandarin Chinese in 8 CDs. | |||||||
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| Chinese For Dummies. Mandarin. | |||||||
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| Chinese For Dummies. Mandarin. 3 hours of instruction on 3 CDs. | |||||||
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posted by Ray at
9:08 PM
2 Comments:
As China increasingly is seen as a growing business power, interest in learning the Chinese language had rocketed, and dominance of Chinese over English will be a long time coming. More and more people begin to learn Chinese, because here is clear career potential for the future. Chinese language education market will be prosperous. http://www.learnchinese.bj.cn/
Thank you for the enlightening post. Appreciate it a lot.
Subliminal messaging can indeed be very powerful. Interesting enough, a website http://www.chargedaudio.com (non-aff link) sells a bunch of subliminal programs. Might be interesting to check them out.
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