The new semester has started, and it's like last semester except slightly better with the computer class being replaced by a film/tv class (this is not as hard as it sounds, it's just watching films with a vocabulary list in front of you).
The worst is the Spoken Chinese class, as it's more of a Reciting Textbook class in actuality. This seems to be a method which is held in great esteem by my university, evidenced by the scores of students reciting their textbooks every morning in the campus gardens.
Fortunately we have some good classes, the Intensive Reading and Newspaper ones, where we talk about current events, and actually spend more time conversing than we do in the Spoken class.
The HSK is coming up next month, and as usual I'm refusing to do any specific preparation for it.
Perhaps it's laziness, but I just find the materials too boring to engage with for any useful length of time. I'd much rather just read Chinese books, magazines and newspapers, and watch films and tv shows.
We'll see how it goes. It's all flying by very fast.
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3 comments:
Hey man its Dave from Brisbane, I saw your link off Sinosplice as i was reading up on the dudes experience of learning chinese (very interesting stuff). Good blog site by the way. I hope you are still having a blast, I watched Conan the Barbarian as it was on tv a couple of nights ago. It made me think of the man I once was, and I am sure you would be able to identify with many of the themes in the film. I will finish this comment poignantly with a quote from the movie, a mantra of sorts to help guide you on your travels:
Other barbarian: "Conan, what is best in life?"
Conan: "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!"
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Cooper,
I couldn't agree more that the most enjoyable study method is constant assimilation - film, tv, print, net, and some music.
I found the HanyuQiao handbook with the 300 or so multi choice questions with answers supplied beneath to make a very bold statement about the state of education in China.
Take care.
Matt
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