What Level Would You Describe Yourself?

[atitarev]

I chose intermediate.

I only learn part-time when I have time.

Heaps of beginner books:

Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese + audio

Teach Yourself Chinese + audio

Colloquial Chinese + audio

Zadoyenko, Huang Shuyin - Учебник китайского языка. (Russian) 1st volume, 15 lessons of the 2nd volume. Texts are a bit outdated, no audio and sometimes boring. Excellent grammar, character coverage.

Practical Chinese Reader - 1 volume + audio

New Practical Chinese Reader - volumes 1, 2 and 3. + audio

+ reference materials, grammar books.

+ some language exchange partners I have - very occasional.

Haven't managed to read a whole book in Chinese but a few chapters of Gulliver stories.

Selected chapters from Everyday Chinese series.

Song lyrics - Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun), Renee Liu (Liu Ruoying), etc.

Chinese e-mails from my penpals.

Private conversational class in Melbourne - 3 10-week terms.

A semester at RMIT (I could skip 3 preceding semesters)- recently got Certificate III in Applied Languages (not that I need another education). High Distinction.

I think, my grammar is not bad, pronunciation - OK, including tones, speaking rather slowly, listening skill - depends who I speak too but I am easily lost, characters - perhaps 1,500 passivley, can only write about 500.

I can boast a similar knowledge in Japanese and I am a beginner in Arabic. Fluent in Russian, English, German. Functional in French and Polish.

I regret to say, after all this, I am still pretty far from fluency, especially in speaking. I hope to boost my Chinese when I start travelling to China and hopefully attend an extensive immersion course in China.

[wrbt]

I can't write characters with a pen at all, but on a computer am probably about same as reading well over 2000 probably more with contextual clues.

That's one thing I hate about character quiz thingies they do individual characters and sometimes I might not catch what it is but if it's part of a word I'll know every time because my brain is used to seeing the word as a whole. A simple example is 陪 and 部, if you showed me just the characer I'd have to flip a coin to guess which one it was, but if I was reading and came across 部分 or 陪同 be understood no problem. Even alone the context does it "小李陪孩子去" easily read without thinking which one it is.

[IndhuRen]

Don't know what to call myself...

1) Completed the 3 levels of Pimsleur mandarin

2) Memorized the 750 Hanzi in Rapid Literacy in Chinese for beginners (Zhang Pengpeng)

3) Vol 1 of NPCR

Maybe could call myself Advanced Beginner:oops:

[Rhubarb]

I'll make an effort for friendly Snoopy and tell you that I'm a very lazy beginner :-)

kiss him at midnight, just one peck on either one of his Snoopy cheeks for me please!

[Rrina]

Easy question for me. Beginner!

I also love FSI but I'm only on the second unit yet.

Unable to say anything but the most basic rehearsed phrases to a Chinese speaker and not really able to understand the answer. But I've certainly advanced a lot since last year! AND a lot of that was due to the links and information on this forum.

I also love muyongshi's Snoopy btw.

[muyongshi]

kiss him at midnight, just one peck on either one of his Snoopy cheeks for me please!

Should I be disturbed by this?????? Am I being hit on on the forums???? Wow!

(ps any check on the whole snoopy dating chinese girl recently )

[Rhubarb]

Should I be disturbed by this?

no please, I didn't mean to embarrass you, 请你别 take it too seriously.

[muyongshi]

No, I actually got a good kick out of it!