I am learning Spanish and have come to know two language websites, namely, Italki and LiveMocha. I know a lot of friends through those sites. I help my friends in learning English and Chinese. I will use this blog as a forum for my friends and I to tell our experience in learning a new language and ways and means to improve the related language skills. Let's help each other. It is a win-win situation.
Soy Brandon Zin de Hong Kong que es un territorio autónomo de China, pero antes era una colonia de Gran Bretaña. Estoy seim-retirado. Trabajando para una compañía en los Estados Unidos como consultor experto en asuntos con China. La razón por la que estoy estudiando Español es porque me gusta escuchar las canciones latinas, y no comprendo las letras. Si aprendo el idioma Español me entenderé las letras.
我是洗百敦（假名），来自香港．自从回归后一国两制，社会稳定繁荣，生活不错．
A foreigner friend once told me that he could never be able to learn Chinese. According to him Chinese was such a difficult language and I would laugh at his mistakes. I tried to give him a boost by telling him that he could never make a mistake in speaking or writing Chinese because as [...]
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I chatted with a Mexican friend of “italki.com” (let’s call her Maria) on MSN yesterday. Maria was very nice and taught me quite a lot of Spanish. I tried to reciprocate and offered to teach her Chinese. Maria said she did not know a single Chinese word and did not think she could learn such [...]
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你认为以 部首 及 象形 方式去配合拼音会否有助外囯朋友学习中文?Do you think “Radicals” and “Pictographs” to be used in conjunction with Pinyin would help foreigners learn Chinese (Brandon Zin asked on 3/18/08)
我个人认为，偏旁部首和象形字的记忆对外国朋友在理解中文上会很有帮助，尤其是对象形字的记忆，中国现在很多的汉字应该是形声字,也就是由形旁和声旁组成的汉字,形旁即你说的部首,声旁即整个汉字的发音.基本上,如果记住这些声旁的发音,对外国朋友学习中文会有很大帮助.中国有句俗语叫”认字不认字,先认半个字”,这句话里”半个字”,其实就是指对声旁的记忆.
I personally think that Radicals and Pictographs would help foreigners understand Chinese a lot, especially Pictographs. Many of the current Chinese characters are picto-phonetic compounds, which comprise two parts: [...]
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