Chinesepod Blogroll

This is really just a "你好" to everyone over at Chinesepod. Today they've launched the Community part of the site which means that Chinese learners like me will be able to keep track on what other learners are saying on their blogs. I look forward to learning more with everyone, and hope that some of you may be able to use some of the materials I've created to aid my own learning - all available here on Virtual Mandarin.

Hopefully this will automatically appear on the blogroll!

Comments

[a chan]

There are different ways of learning a language depending on the purpose of your current choice.

The Chinese language is a non-phonetic based and was originally founded on pictographic form like those ancient languages in Egypt and Mesepotamia except the Chinese still retains the pictoideograms elements.

What you have presented is more like the daily conversation exchanges and incidental characters here and there.

I suppose you are an academic and might be interested to communicate with the Chinese writers of the present and past centuries via the written language. If this is one of your major objective then moving in another direction may benefit your learning. I will write more when I am clear about what you want to do with the language acquisition. At present I am relearning my own language after putting it aside for years. I am extremely happy with what I have found so far.

[Teeya Door]

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