quick approach to learning current-day Mandarin

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I've posted a (REVISED, slightly more easily read) barebones Text file

of my 2000 word approach to Mandarin Vocabulary in the Files section.

It is not very reader-friendly, (NO Chinese, NO Formatting, confusing

tab stops), but can be searched for quick Hanyu Pinyin translation of

many English words.

 

http://f1.grp.fs.com/v1/cKOGR0LzPdT1Ou2rt5HOq-oqVpxWJ2FeWzhq6yxpw0AO1hcAQTa\

XmTbpsTo0af4EP-QMiGU9Tm3lrWG-9x4f5Yof8NlQXw/2008_Mandarin_words_TEXT_version.rtf

 

You can see Sample pages of the formatted Chinese character containing

version at my website: You are welcome to support the ongoing project!

 

" After one year of part-time self-study, my listening comprehension of

native Mandarin Chinese is still limited to relatively few short

sentences spoken s-l-o-w-l-y. But, I discovered that most of what I

say to Zhong1guo2ren2 client-patients and friends can be expressed

with the first 800 words that I chose to memorize (out of the total

2000 words in these lists carefully culled from dictionaries by

eliminating synonyms). Most importantly, they understand almost

everything I want to communicate! "

 

The idea of this approach is to construct sentences that YOU want to

say from organized word lists based on parts of speech, relevant

category and practical usage. I deliberately DID NOT include most

words / phrases from classical TCM lists so as to not be duplicative.

I should point out that since 25 years ago in Acupuncture school, my

focus was on medicine in general, and I resisted learning any Chinese

beyond herb names. Times change. Wo3 gan4le, ni3 ke3yi3 !

 

Joe

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