General Discussion

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Hi I am very very much a newbie - my boyfriend and I are moving to China next year (Shanghai or Beijing) to teach english. I am excited but we are both living in the... Read more

December 13, 2007 at 01:42 AM
I've decided to switch to a single character per day so that I can keep this going, because doing five per day was just a bit too much work to sustain. Since the rat... Read more

cool new book for learning characters

December 12, 2007 at 06:19 PM
I cam across a cool new book for learning characters."Learning CHinese Characters"- Tuttle are the publishers.  It takes techniques used by memory-cha... Read more

This is Rajnish Title

December 12, 2007 at 01:17 PM
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Books

December 12, 2007 at 04:12 AM
大家好 The thread on movies got me hoping more of you out there would be willing to suggest and briefly describe a favorite(s) books dealing with the mainland.  I&... Read more

Typical Progress?

December 12, 2007 at 02:51 AM
I have been studying for 2-1/2 years beginning with mostly podcasts, and see a long road ahead to feel conversational in Mandarin.  For the last 6 mon... Read more

CEDict for Apple Dictionary (10.5)

December 11, 2007 at 08:53 PM
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The purpose of radicals in characters

December 11, 2007 at 08:47 PM
I wonder if anyone has any good resources on learning about the structure of characters specifically about the purpose of radicals, what they are and what they mean.... Read more
This is actually a reaction to furyougaijin's post in the "CPod users can't read" thread. I think it needs a place of its own. On the subject of pr... Read more

Question for ChinesePod

December 11, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Newbie Lessons: 238 Elementary: 147  Intermediate: 125 U-Intermediate: 70 Advanced: 101 Media: 44  So that's the spread of lessons you have archived. T... Read more