as d topic ab, i need help to improve mandarin i mean d way i speak..

btw, i already learn mandarin since 4years ago.... i can speak mandarain but , not so nice... i mean d intonation gua... people say i speak mandarin vry funny...


shud i add 'ba' , 'leh',... etc to my mandarin lie d hong kong artist... they really not so keng mandarin but it feels that their intoanation is perfect... plzz help...

p/s: i dunno this is d correct thread ab this or not.. if not plz move me to d correct place...thanks..

watch more s'pore drama...
the way they speak is quite accurate....
or mix more chinese speaking ppl.....
u can learn from them.... cheers

It's advisable to converse more frequently with your friends and ask them to correct the wrongly pronounced words for you.

Watching Mandarin dramas (local or foreign) which not be so helpful if you can't catch up with their pace of conservation.

Worst come to the worst, you may need to go to language centre.

Just becareful when learning how to pronounce 'x'. The majority of Chinese speaking Malaysians don't know how to pronounce it

x? dun get wat u mean..

btw... yar... i speak mandarin everyday in 2 years coz my roomate dunno how to speak cantonese...but, yet my fren still sas that my mandarin is so funny....

does they means that my mandarin is sucky? mayb i need to speak more mandarin.... i was thinkin to add 'ba', 'ma' etc... is there any website teaches this stuff? i mean i dunno when to put those thing in sentence...

go and learn back "han yu ping yin", those bo po mo fo, de te ne le those. i will start teaching a ABC in this saturday. he wanna learn mandarin conversation also. he's about 30++ yrs old, so it's not too late for u to go tuition

well dont always listen to hongkong artist punya mandarin,search for singapore and taiwan punya....listen to songs,watch drama,read more chinese books and speak more
confirm ur mandarin will b very nice
else u start from below again,han yu ping yin then slowly progress on wif reading,speaking and writing

yeah agree. watch more taiwanese drama... or u can watch those korean or japanese translated drama. the mandarin is very very accurate. i come from an english speaking family but i can speak mandarin fluently, thanks to those tv shows. lol. but too bad, i cant read or write. i just know a couple of words from my friends. but i know chinese poems too. lol. u can learnt idioms from those chinese kung fu drama where they speak the perfect intonation and where there are loads of idiomatic words in the lines.

oh - no point learning mandarin through songs IMO. strangely, words like 心 which in school we are taught to pronounce as 'xin' and in dictionary also 'xin' is frequently pronounced as 'shin'.

watch show not so bad la, like watching Singaporean shows - their mandarin really close to ours. watch Channel 19 on Astro (AEC) and you'll get a lot of mandarin shows.

actually depends on waat kind of songs u listen
if u listen to those hongkong singer of cos lar not tat good......try pure taiwanese singer n not those hip hop or rock n roll but those a bit oldies songs,those really help out

wwaaa... like that need to start see tv everyday... but exam is jus around d corner...huhuhuhu... mayb i start by listen to radio 1st...

as what goldfries said, "oh - no point learning mandarin through songs IMO. strangely, words like 心 which in school we are taught to pronounce as 'xin' and in dictionary also 'xin' is frequently pronounced as 'shin'."

are you a cantonese?

no choice, u want to learn mandarin, u must speak every day.

i still remember 4 yrs back, i totally noob in mandarin coz im from english ed, still remember all my coursemates laugh at me when i start to speak...

then when i know my gf, she only speaks mandarin while i only speak cantonese normally, so i learn to speak mandarin since she seems like dun want pick up in cantonese, but lucky me, becoz of that i master it now...lol

i master it only in not more than 6 months coz i speak everyday. dun feel embarassed if u converse wrongly. then now i can converse very well even though not expert. even my fren now also think im from chinese ed background..lol

yup...

waa.... so nice....

now i hard to learn coz my housemate now, 5 people, onli one speak mandarin.. i think mayb i need to pratice more... coz sometimes when i wanna speak, i need to speak slowly coz speak fast, then my mandarin will dunno b wat language...

do any one know, which website related that can help me out??

same case like mine, being a banana in TAR college really not nice. i speak mandarin with my friends, well actually with one la coz he is trying to learn cantonese from me, so vice versa. and another thing is, others would juz speak canto with me, comfortable for me but wotn get to learn much. anyways, when i have doubts i jzu ask my friends to explain.

listen to radio now i think might not help much, coz u duno what they are speaking? or u can catch all the time wat ppl say but only can't speak? tv got human beings show u their intonation, with their movement of mouth, gesture, emotions, u will learn more from there