Since primary school till now, i have been struggling with chinese.
now at the jc level, i can frankly tell you that my chinese is beyond redemption, ask me to retake the PSLE chinese and i can probably do it with a C grade.
when i read the h1 chinese comprehensions, etc , i can barely understand a thing !
my chinese alevels are still some time away, so i have some time to rush for h1 chinese, and my target isnt very high either, S will do, but obviously a B if possible at best.
I cant focus wholeheartedly on chinese since i have to consider other subjects as well, so do you guys have any methods whereby i can juggle the' improve chinese plan' into my daily time?
language is not something u can study and do well in a short span of time.
and u definitely cant rush thru it
u have to read, speak, write regularly
there is no crash course, somemore we are toking abt As
and since oredi in JC, the language ability is quite fixed oredi so it is really not easy
since your first utterances as a year old baby, u are learning language(s)
wat u came in contact with the past 18 yrs of ur life would have shaped the lang system in ur brain
u can think of 1001 excuses like.... me parents is ang moh pai..... i think chinese is difficult.... chinese is boring..... i dun like my pri sch chinese teacher.....chinese is oni 1 subject out of 9........who needs chinese? english ftw. i can spend the time to learn german even.
learning and improving the lang shd come from the heart
if u have no interest and trying to study it bcos too bad it's one of the subjects i gotta sit for, the mentality itself would be the biggest hindrance
read a lot. a lot a lot.
take the initiative to carry a concise dict with u
whenever u come across a character or term u do not know, check it out and put a mark beside the word
next time if u found yourself checking up this word again, slap urself for forgetting
watch the news every nite, if possible
now they come with subs so it's easy to relate wat they are saying to the words (by sec 2 standard, u shd be able to understand 90% of the terms used in local media)
when u are out, try to take note of signboards, menus, brochures the auntie stuff in ur face at the mrt station, displays or anything with chinese words on it..... to let u feel tt it is in ur everyday life, not only as a subject.....
hey thanks alot !
haha.. but even so.. my sentence structure will be bad.
indeed i damm sian that cos of chinese, my result slips are always screwed ! ):
i couldnt go to raffles cos of no HMT ...
just get pass would do. uni only require a d7, and it is not counted for admission.
get tuition lar for ur chinese. or get a PRC gf lar
precisely, setting the 门槛 so low oso lets student feel that...... oni D7 required, no need put in so much hard work!
with tuition at this stage, u can oni improve a max of 2 grades if u relli rell relli work hard
Ruins the cert.,.chinese..
a,a,a,a,a, S?>!?!?$%^&*
hia.,s nontheless i will start with reading more cl newspaper bah
i cannot cope with jc life siah cos of bad time managament. didnt know suddenly so stress
Originally posted by chinesesux:Since primary school till now, i have been struggling with chinese.
now at the jc level, i can frankly tell you that my chinese is beyond redemption, ask me to retake the PSLE chinese and i can probably do it with a C grade.
when i read the h1 chinese comprehensions, etc , i can barely understand a thing !
my chinese alevels are still some time away, so i have some time to rush for h1 chinese, and my target isnt very high either, S will do, but obviously a B if possible at best.I cant focus wholeheartedly on chinese since i have to consider other subjects as well, so do you guys have any methods whereby i can juggle the' improve chinese plan' into my daily time?
Here you go:
thanks. i guess what is facing chinese students is in the same context as what is facing me right now.
once this year is over, i will kiss chinese goodbye. for good.
Originally posted by chinesesux:
once this year is over, i will kiss chinese goodbye. for good.
Are you chinese or non chinese?
将����悔就好咯
Originally posted by chinesesux:Since primary school till now, i have been struggling with chinese.
now at the jc level, i can frankly tell you that my chinese is beyond redemption, ask me to retake the PSLE chinese and i can probably do it with a C grade.
You should go Taiwan or China to study chinese. Then everything will be reversed, your chinese will be no.1 and english like shit.
So Chinese students have to make an effort to master English. But it's really frustrating. I read English text daily, but I still forget English words everyday! The amount of common daily words of English is FAR more than Chinese language. I memorize and forget English words everyday. Sometimes I even forget the most frequently-used English words which I have learned in high school.
Listening is another difficulty for most Chinese students. English teachers recommand us to listen to BBC or VOA radio. In fact it's quite easy to get English listening-training tapes, CDs, VCDs and MP3 files in China, Hollywood movie DVDs are everywhere. But most of us can't catch the words in the conversations of them(tapes). We(most Chinese students) think that those native speakers speak too fast, so their English sounds like a kind of alien language(one guy says"it's Mars language, not Earth one"). Although it's a simple conversation, we can't understand most part of it(There is no unknown/new word in the conversation, but I'm still unable to understand what they say). So I'm extremely nervous when I encounter an American now.
Why is English so difficult to learn? Dear American friends, I need your help.
refer to my guide over here : http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2297/topics/332998
i hope it helps someway.
i am.. a half chinese.
i only learnt chinese formally in primary 2 actually. by then... it created a vicious cycle which caused me not to learn it well.
Originally posted by chinesesux:Since primary school till now, i have been struggling with chinese.
now at the jc level, i can frankly tell you that my chinese is beyond redemption, ask me to retake the PSLE chinese and i can probably do it with a C grade.
when i read the h1 chinese comprehensions, etc , i can barely understand a thing !
my chinese alevels are still some time away, so i have some time to rush for h1 chinese, and my target isnt very high either, S will do, but obviously a B if possible at best.I cant focus wholeheartedly on chinese since i have to consider other subjects as well, so do you guys have any methods whereby i can juggle the' improve chinese plan' into my daily time?
Same! But I can suggest to you that you could try doing some exercise on Chinese, which I did. And whenever I find words that are hard to understand, I would always try to translate it to English. That way helped me a lot and now, my Chinese is a little improved. :)
Originally posted by chinesesux:i am.. a half chinese.
i only learnt chinese formally in primary 2 actually. by then... it created a vicious cycle which caused me not to learn it well.
icic. time to break your vicious cycle.
vicious cycle = �性循环
ya read it just now..
there/s this problem of productivity..the hours i spend on chinese is not worthwhile cos.. the output is incredibly low..
my cl in olevel got a b3 thru pure luck...and memory??!of suyus..
Like what FireIce said, if you take an antagonistic/defeatist mentality with regards to Chinese, that in itself is the biggest hindrance to learning Chinese. If you want to do well, you should, however hard it is, rid that mentality first. Then you will be able to have the genuine motivation to study the language conscientiously, which is required to do well in it.
Cliche as it sounds, read, read and read. Since there's an oral component in H1 Chinese, you ought to make an conscientious attempt to speak (however horrible/incoherent it sounds) and improve. Don't be lazy and check all the words you don't understand on the dictionary or online dictionary. Here's an online Chinese dictionary which I found helpful - http://www.nciku.com/
Yes, your productivity is bound to be extremely low because your abhorrence for Chinese is deeply ingrained in you. The better you get with time, the more productive you'll become.
You must have confidence in yourself - that's of paramount importance too. All the best.
Just let it kill you already
LOL thanks to all the people /supporters minus TTFU.
TTFU u seem to be a troll in the forum. i read how u answered the part on the jc dreams of a sec 3 girl. what a nice(sarcastic) impression you have left on me.
if u are unwilling to, give any support, fine we are all fine with that. but to make useless comments, or discouraging in nature, shows that you are nothing but ..a wastrel.
sorry for my hard lashing words, but its true to the very last drop
people like you dont deserve any help, nor sympathy should the time arise.
u may check out this book to read as leisure
A Concise Chinese-English
Dictionary for Lovers
by
Guo Xiaolu
Originally posted by chinesesux:ya read it just now..
there/s this problem of productivity..the hours i spend on chinese is not worthwhile cos.. the output is incredibly low..
my cl in olevel got a b3 thru pure luck...and memory??!of suyus..
now is still april, i guess u still have sometime to practise your chinese.
if your CL in O level got a B3....well my guess is you are just there, but you need more hardwork (rmb you are taking H1 chinese already, not O level)
Its nt whether about the productivity, English, Chinese, or whatever language u you are studying, it shld be part of your everyday "routine", or i shld say, part of you everyday.
Even if you come from English speaking language, even if you devote like half an hour of your everyday to chinese, i would say it helps
mangas in chinese translations can also be interesting and helpful in building your foundation. I started reading Dragonball in ç¹�ä½“å— from p2 and One Piece from p5, and along with the help of primary school's chinese work (txtbooks, model essays, good phrases and some æˆ�è¯), i got A* for PSLE chinese.
Originally posted by chinesesux:LOL thanks to all the people /supporters minus TTFU.
TTFU u seem to be a troll in the forum. i read how u answered the part on the jc dreams of a sec 3 girl. what a nice(sarcastic) impression you have left on me.
if u are unwilling to, give any support, fine we are all fine with that. but to make useless comments, or discouraging in nature, shows that you are nothing but ..a wastrel.
sorry for my hard lashing words, but its true to the very last droppeople like you dont deserve any help, nor sympathy should the time arise.
aparently you dint read my other posts. But that wall of crap is interesting nerver de less.