Chinese Characters

[JohnP]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

[Guest Rob & Jin]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

 

 

 

http://zhongwen.com/

 

 

good luck

[shadeOgray]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

I did the Rosetta stone, if I were you I'd return it and get Fluenz. MUCH better, there is no comparison.

Also check out http://www.livemocha.com/

[Randy W]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

 

 

Any textbook (almost any) learning method would have both the Chinese characters and English text. Check with the Rosetta folks to se ifthey offer a textbook, or buy one at Amazon or anywhere else.

[izus]

if your just starting out i highly recommend at least trying out chinesepod for a week...

its free the first week.

i can not stress to you how good it is and how much ive learned from it

this is a great chart to use...

http://chinesepod.com/resources/pronunciation

 

ive used so many different software's and different ways to learn and this one is by far the best for me personally

[izus]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

 

 

Any textbook (almost any) learning method would have both the Chinese characters and English text. Check with the Rosetta folks to se ifthey offer a textbook, or buy one at Amazon or anywhere else.

i think rosetta comes with the pdf files like pimsluer

[credzba]

if your just starting out i highly recommend at least trying out chinesepod for a week...

its free the first week.

i can not stress to you how good it is and how much ive learned from it

this is a great chart to use...

http://chinesepod.com/resources/pronunciation

 

ive used so many different software's and different ways to learn and this one is by far the best for me personally

 

 

I want to reinforce izus comment here.

Chinesepod is free to try.

You can buy it a month at a time, and at varying levels. I bought the 36$ a year level (just cd quality audio, and the pdf files) then they let me upgrade to the lesons etc. on a month by month basis when I have time.

 

I used pinsler at first, and if you can spend 30 minutes a day, in your car, running, whatever .. it is a good starter, and will get you able to say common phrases.

 

To be honest though, my BEST teacher has been my wife. Since she arrived, I try very hard to say the right things when she teaches me new words/phrases. The learning is not as fast as a class, but more fun, and almost painless (unless she and our daughter laugh at me .. or when I mispronounced eye, and it meant another body part .. )

[lubmahgrl]

I am getting Rosetta Stone in the mail today to learn Chinese <Mandarin>. Was wondering if there is a place on web or any place that I can get the Chinese Characters to learn these as well.

 

 

Not the best but here are a few sites that can help out some.

 

nice page to help with pinyin:

http://www.activechinese.com/school/pinyin.jsp

 

some chinese words:

http://www.chinese-word.com/index.html

 

Rosseta I think can teach you the symbols too, Can't remember tho I only tried rosseta a few times.