My Mandarin viewing is back in full throttle. In fact, upon returning from my Peru trip, I believe I set an all-time record for total viewing hours in a seven-day period. I watched nearly 12 hours—an average of 1:40 per day! By contrast, my average daily viewing time for the entire 11 months of the […]
There’s a lot going on this week at Mandarin Language Acquisition Experiment Central! I have created my first non-English pages. Este blog agora conta com páginas em português! Stay tuned in coming weeks for Spanish and French pages. Regular posts will continue to be in English, but there will always be some multilingual content on […]
I have a added a brand-new Qiao Hu Study Guide (Number 4), which anyone can use to easily learn numbers, shapes, and everyday objects. Please take my polls and thus provide me with feedback on my experiment and blog. It doesn’t matter if you have read many posts or just one or two. Please elaborate […]
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve posted my third ever Qiao Hu study guide. This episode also has a vocabulary review at the end, so start at minute 21:00, then watch the whole thing. Read through the study guide ahead of time, and keep it open for reference, so that you know what to keep […]
I’m Camila Daya Hart. This is my second blog post. I think that thank you is “she shie.” My dad was doing the experiment by himself. And then I said, “Dad, can I do the experiment?” And my dad answered, “Sure my sweetheart.” My dad thinks that thank you is “shie shie“. I’ve been visiting […]
Skip to Qiao Hu Study Guides Introduction Qiao Hu is the most didactic authentic video listening resource I have found for beginners. I highly recommend it for all beginning and intermediate-level students of Mandarin. It is a sure-fire way to get your toddlers understanding the language, but is also very useful for adults in limited doses. Warning: […]
Somebody gave me a great idea: to post commented links to Qiao Hu episodes on the for the benefit of other beginners. He suggested includes a plot synopsis and mentioning what I was able to understand. (The person is a friendly administrator of the website http://www.chinese-forums.com). Thus, Qiao Hu Study Guides are born. I will […]
I have completed 400 hours of viewing, which is 1/3 of the total planned time for my experiment! Today I updated some tables, statistics, and graphs to provide a summary of my experiment thus far. I will not assess or comment in much detail on my progress or results obtained. I am doing that each time I […]
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——————————————— AUGUST 4 BREAKING NEWS UPDATE I just published an update to my French Fluency Recovery Project ——————————————— BREAKING NEWS UPDATE I just went to a Walgreens here in New Haven, Connecticut. There were several young Chinese people in the drug store buying food and beverages, among other things. They were chitchatting among themselves, and—lo and behold—I could […]