Comments for Owshawng...Cooks, Eats, Learns Mandarin http://owshawng.wordpress.com life as a suburban house husband/kept man, cook, and self taught chinese student Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:35:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Mandarin Immersion Day by Danny http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-6 Danny Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:35:40 +0000 http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-6 It is difficult for a beginner to learn Chinese, but when you will gain pleasure from Chinese history and culture. Check this website http://www.hellomandarin.net There, not only can you learn Chinese step by step starting from zero and going to Mastery level, but also you can test your Chinese level by yourself. In additional, there are rich resources. Of course, it is free. I hope you make progress everyday in learning Chinese. Good luck! It is difficult for a beginner to learn Chinese, but when you will gain pleasure from Chinese history and culture. Check this website http://www.hellomandarin.net There, not only can you learn Chinese step by step starting from zero and going to Mastery level, but also you can test your Chinese level by yourself. In additional, there are rich resources. Of course, it is free. I hope you make progress everyday in learning Chinese. Good luck!

]]> Comment on Mandarin Immersion Day by owshawng http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-5 owshawng Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:14:10 +0000 http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-5 John, Thanks for the good review. Feel free to link to this site and I'll put a link to yours if you don't mind. I haven't decided which Asian DVD site to subscribe to. I'm going to skip Netflix, not to impressed with there Asian selection and I would be so tempted to keep watching Hollywood movies. When I was living in Australia I got hooked on Korean TV series dubbed in Mandarin. In the US they're pretty expensive to buy, but online you can join a rental place for $20 or so a month and they ship you one entire series (about 15 to 20 hours worth) at a time. I also liked the Taiwanese TV series, but they were kind of silly compared to the Korean ones. John, Thanks for the good review. Feel free to link to this site and I’ll put a link to yours if you don’t mind. I haven’t decided which Asian DVD site to subscribe to. I’m going to skip Netflix, not to impressed with there Asian selection and I would be so tempted to keep watching Hollywood movies. When I was living in Australia I got hooked on Korean TV series dubbed in Mandarin. In the US they’re pretty expensive to buy, but online you can join a rental place for $20 or so a month and they ship you one entire series (about 15 to 20 hours worth) at a time. I also liked the Taiwanese TV series, but they were kind of silly compared to the Korean ones.

]]> Comment on Mandarin Immersion Day by john http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-4 john Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:32:40 +0000 http://owshawng.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/mandarin-immersion-day/#comment-4 Very cool blog. Along with Chinese and lifting weights, cooking is my other hobby. If it's cool with you I'm going to link to your blog from mine. I'm actually planning on doing a similar day of immersion tomorrow. It's been too long since I've done something like that. Which Asian DVD site are you going to use? I only have Netflix and their selection isn't so hot. It isn't bad either, but I'd like a specialty site. Very cool blog. Along with Chinese and lifting weights, cooking is my other hobby. If it’s cool with you I’m going to link to your blog from mine.

I’m actually planning on doing a similar day of immersion tomorrow. It’s been too long since I’ve done something like that.

Which Asian DVD site are you going to use? I only have Netflix and their selection isn’t so hot. It isn’t bad either, but I’d like a specialty site.

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