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>>946

https://pirateproxy.sx/torrent/7272364/Assimil_Chinese_With_Ease_Vols_1_amp_2_Writing_Chinese_MP3

I don't know the first thing about Chinese but I've used Assimil before and it's quite solid.

This guy seems to know what he's talking about:

http://www.perapera.org/best-10-books-for-learning-chinese/

And this is the download link to the first book he recommends:

http://en.bookfi.org/book/1464835

Pleco is a godlike dictionary app. I wish there was a Japanese equivalent, just as good.

Pop-up dictionary, equivalent of rikaichan(there's also a Chrome version.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhong-wen/

You might look into anki.srs or other flashcard programs for learning the characters/vocabulary. If you use a popular book or study method the there is a great chance that someone already made a related anki deck but you can always make custom ones as well.

A friend of mine uses this website:

skritter.com

For interaction with native speakers:

There is always a relatively large presence of Chinese speakers (mind the time zones) on sharedtalk.com, especially the guys in the voice chat lobby starve for even mediocre English speakers.

On italki you can pay for professional tutors and teachers but there aren't a lot of people for language exchanges.

On lang8 you can let native speakers check out your texts and essays.

Or just join the Chinese equivalent of twitter/facebook right away.

>>946

Anki+pleco (the reading plugin is great)+Grammar book (I like Modern Mandarin Grammar)

there's "growing up with chinese", an intro course of 100 videos on the CCTV website

http://cctv.cntv.cn/lm/learningchinese/program/index.shtml

also, google "chinese language learning pack" a 9gb or so torrent filled with goods, it has about everything for all levels, grammar books, courses that encompass writing/speaking/listening/reading, etc.

also, start writing as soon as possible, I started with heisig's remembering simplified hanzi but ditched it before finishing because I started searching for real character etymology on

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php

https://en.wiktionary.org

http://www.chineseetymology.org

and http://chinese-characters.org

I'm not into websites to interact with natives nor into teaching software so I can't tell about that.

http://linguadrive.ru/chinese-grammar/

Good grammar books here

Grammar guide

http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page

I don't know how in-depth it is but it explains concepts very well (the beginner stuff is anyway).

Is there a recommended Anki deck? Chinese Sentences and audio, spoon fed seems like a good place to start.

What's a good way to get good at pronouncing the consonants? Retroflexes are stupid bullshit hard and I'm a native anglophone so training myself to not aspirate my stops, let alone distinguish the aspirated from non-aspirated ones, is like bashing my head against the wall. I've got a good amount of knowledge of linguistics, but I'm still shit at pronouncing anything not in English.

does anyone know what this means?

是他妈的

>>1429

I think it's "really motherly" but I'm wrong. Google Translate says "fuck" so maybe Chinese has an elevated adipose complex…

>>1429

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/他媽的

it's chinese version of a motherfucker

>>1429

"is fucking" where fucking is an adj

是=is/are/be

他妈的=swearing word, literally "his mother's", but can be used 2rd person too i.e. you swear at someone "你他妈的" / "你妈的", both work; can be roughly translated as "you fucker". but generally 他妈的 is an adj or adv.

but it is also possible for 是他妈的 to mean "it is his mother's", depending on context. ofc people often would avoid talking like that to avoid misunderstanding, but they could also do it intentionally for comical effects.