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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Learning Mandarin

Mazlyn Mustapha

Yesterday near Petaling Jaya

I've decided to take Mandarin classes and I've been shopping around. One center in PJ charges RM1200 for at RM30/hour for 40hours total +RM50 registration fees. Paying full amount upfront = waive registration fees. Classes are 3hours/week, maximum 8 student/teacher ratio.

Is this a fair deal?

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Mohd Khairuddin Bin Aziz, Jessica Chee, Yeo Yen Li and 29 others like this.
Nurman Yaman Try asking uitm.

Yesterday at 11:58am via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping One to one？

Yesterday at 12:03pm via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping For adults, i charge $40~45/hr.

1-1 .

Yesterday at 12:05pm via mobile · Unlike · 2
Sun Yih Ping My advice is, only u really wnt to learn and use it.
Otherwise, u wil just throw ur $into the sea.

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Nurainun Baniyamin uitm fakulti bahasa....near to 2ndgate & seksyen 7

Yesterday at 12:08pm · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Last time, my wife take a 3 month Korean language class, but now, all return back to the teacher....

Yesterday at 12:08pm via mobile · Unlike · 1
Ravin Zhong The best deal get lessons from your bros n sis at MPCAM. Its more slice of life and real-time plus watch
Farewell to my Concubine- you learn fast.

Yesterday at 12:08pm via mobile · Unlike · 2
Mazlyn Mustapha UiTM is too far Nurman, prefer PJ

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Uthaya Sankar SB Perhaps Emmanuel Joseph could share his view on this.

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Mohd Bell Why not Rosetta stone apps/ Internet course then practice ngan kengkawan cina bila dah pandai sikit.. At your own time whenever u want.. Pastu tengok citer cina banyak2 giler ngan subs.

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Mazlyn Mustapha Ravin Zhong are you saying MPCAM are inviting me back to join them? Last I heard I was not welcome there

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Mazlyn Mustapha Mohd Bell I already bought books & CDs...I need a teacher

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Emmanuel Joseph KL,YMCA,RM 12 per hour roughly.Ask for Mr Ooi's class.He's good.

Yesterday at 12:12pm via mobile · Unlike · 4
Emmanuel Joseph And make sure you keep watching,listening,reading to Mandarin.If not easy to forget

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Mazlyn Mustapha Hew Li Huang here

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Ahpooki Tai live in china for 1 month, guarantee can speak, some more got accent one ah...dont play2 ok?.. lol

Yesterday at 12:20pm · Unlike · 1
Hew Li Huang Emmanuel Joseph, not possible for Dr Mazlyn to watch movie/drama from China, too many communist elements.

Yesterday at 12:20pm · Unlike · 3
Ravin Zhong What i meant was you have a lot of friends there who can help. Making a speech in Mandarin requires formal training. If you are learning just to communicate with constituents informal training will do. May i also add Cantonese & Hokkien and Tamil on the list - these will be useful semasa turun padang.

Yesterday at 12:37pm via mobile · Unlike · 4
Felicia Ng Depends how fast you catch up with the lessons.

Yesterday at 12:39pm · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping I teach a foreigners b4, he finished the std 1~6 syllabus within 2yrs.

His gf is a Chinese...

~^O^~

Yesterday at 12:44pm via mobile · Unlike · 1
Mazlyn Mustapha Sun: you mean I need to find a Chinese bf? Let me ask my hubby first

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Koh Kek Hoe You know what they say about the Chinese language: If you can sing, you can speak, if you can draw, you can write! Good move on your part!

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Justine Liong Sun Yih Ping : where do you teach?

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Peggy Tan Dear ....i was educated in BM stream school since primary & secondary & only learn to speak Mandarin in Form 2 onwards by conversing with schoolmates who came from Primary Chinese stream.Now i can only speak moderate level Mandarin but cant read Chinese.Is the class worth it? If u can afford the time & $$ why not? For me 1.2k to pick up a usefull skill is worth it but only if u ensure u continue to utilise it or else as our frens mentioned here -will return back to teacher.

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Mazlyn Mustapha Justine & Sun: let me guess, Empire Shopping Ctr

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Mazlyn Mustapha Peggy: my C friends only speak English/Malay with me...cos I wouldn't understand a word of anything else

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Sun Yih Ping Haha。。。
Ur hubby wil killing me...

What i means is if u wnt to learn a new language, ur intention /motive Very important.
Or else, it just waste ur time n $.

Yesterday at 12:51pm via mobile · Unlike · 1
Mazlyn Mustapha I'm very motivated once I make up my mind...Sun's deal might be better for me since I need flexibility to fit things into my schedule, plus I prefer dealing with friends

Yesterday at 12:52pm · Like · 2
Sun Yih Ping Justine Liong, @ kota kemuning , usj, puchong.
Mainly in k.kemuning.
The other 2 places hav to depending on the timing.

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Peggy Tan Sometimes they still laugh & make fun of me as I use the wrong vocabulary in my conversation....being unable to read chinese I have limited chinese vocabulary .

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Mazlyn Mustapha Sun: how about PJ?

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Sun Yih Ping Mazlyn , maybe u can start from self learning 1st....
Then when u taking any other Chinese lesson, wil be more easy catch up.

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Mazlyn Mustapha What is self learning???

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Umar Ridzuan Hawari Bring hubby to learn Chinese together.. it will be fun and both of u can learn faster + the family support system always work well.

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Mazlyn Mustapha Umar Ridzuan: he ONLY learns plastic surgery related stuff...

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Sun Yih Ping Mazlyn, PJ need to depend urs n my timing, cos certain timing, from my place to PJ,traffic very jam.

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Justine Liong Sun Yih Ping : too far from me. I m more pj...

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Mazlyn Mustapha I thought my kids would want to learn but they have adamantly refused...never mind, let me start first

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Sun Yih Ping I though u said u oredi bought the learning material?

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Mazlyn Mustapha I tried it...dunno what they are talking about

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Sun Yih Ping teaching Kids n adults wil be different....
Hard to learn together...

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Adam Mokhtar someone told me to get a chinese girlfriend. I said ' you crazy what?' then i ate my burger and ponder...hmm

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Mazlyn Mustapha Tell me about it, I am used to teaching med-students. Ask me to teach my 7year old math and I have no idea how to do that...

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Sun Yih Ping Later i send u an apps , i think wil be helpful to u...

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Sun Yih Ping U using apple or android?

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Mazlyn Mustapha Adam: if you are single why not? I broke off before got a chance to learn language...

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Justine Liong Sun Yih Ping: if you do pj , let me know. Email me at justineliong@gmail.com

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Adam Mokhtar thanks for sharing the apps..will study with MY SON hehe

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Mazlyn Mustapha Sun: apple

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Adam Mokhtar http://www.appolicious.com/...

Best Mandarin Chinese Learning Apps
www.appolicious.com

I lived in Taiwan for a year, and ever since then have been interested in mainta...ining and improving my Mandarin. Studying Chinese on my iPhone while waiting in line makes me feel superproductive. Serious language learning students, please add your...See More

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Adam Mokhtar Owh wow. Learning to talk AND write in Chinese. Now where's that chinese tea?

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Sun Yih Ping Justine Liong, u wnt to learn or for ur kids?

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Adam Mokhtar For learning on android..is this good? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details...

Easy Chinese Language Learning - Android Apps on Google Play
play.google.com

This basic Chinese language learning tool uses flash cards and phonetic alphabet... reference to teach basic Chinese words and phrases. Flashcards include English pronunc...See More

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Justine Liong Sun Yih Ping : me.... I want to learn.... Started but stopped after a little....

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Adrian Orlando expensive....i learn my hokkien and mandarin with friends....however the disavantage is its only spoken.....i dont read...try listening and dare to speak out....you ll manage...

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Priya Sharda Expensive...

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Hanif Ismail FYI, check out UiTM's Akademi Pengajian Bahasa as well.

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Ravin Zhong Mazlyn Mustapha One of the fastest way is sing karaoke & watching movies. You also learn chinese characters from there. It took me a few months before i can msg in chinese.

Yesterday at 1:16pm via mobile · Unlike · 2
Ravin Zhong As for Chinese bf, maybe adjust a bit. Get a female chinese boyfriend?

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Siew Fun Leong Sun Yih Ping.... do u teach in traditional chinese or simplified chinese ?

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Sathish Ch ....lesbian ah???? ravin

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Sun Yih Ping Siew Fun Leong, for the word writing, i teach only simplified word.
For reading and understanding, both can.

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Ravin Zhong Sathish Ch at least it's better option than male.

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Sun Yih Ping Siew Fun Leong, i also teach classical Chinese.

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Siew Fun Leong Sun Yih Ping, do you teach chinese calligraphy ?

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Ravin Zhong Sun Yih Ping, may i ask what do you mean by classical chinese? Poetry?

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Sun Yih Ping Siew Fun Leong, calligraphy, nope.
That is different oredi.

23 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Ravin Zhong, poetry is part of the classical chinese.

Classical Chinese including 四书五经 and etc...

23 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1
Sun Yih Ping All the book from 诸子百家 consider classical Chinese.

Now we call it 文言文。

23 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1
Ravin Zhong Sun Yih Ping, thanks for the clarification.

23 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1
Kuan Poh Foo Download mandarin apps, watch mandarin drama and listen to mandarin songs, you will progress faster than attending classes.

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Eva Yong Yeah i learn my spoke Cantonese from all those years of watching tvb dramas reading the Malay subtitles on rtm and tv3

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Eva Yong Use Waygo Translate app, it will translate written chinese for u.

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Mazlyn Mustapha Great, which songs? I don't think I can handle drama - the one's in languages I understand make me sleepy.

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Felicia Lee i learn a little bit of korean language from drama reading from eng and chinese sub.. cantonese learnt from cantonese speaking friends.

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Jauharatud Dinie AR Mazlyn Mustapha the cheapest mandarin class I found and went is in Puchong. Same ratio of student:teacher. I can't remember how many classes.

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Ann Wong Mazlyn, go and get some of these university students from china, there do part time one to one, my friend did that

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Ghazari Baharom What competency level you planning after class? Conversant?

21 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Mazlyn Mustapha Learning outcomes: to be able to understand and be understood, able to read, ability to write would be an added advantage

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Affendi Ali 愿上帝保佑你们！

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Peter Chen Fung Woo

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Nurfarhana Khairul Zaman I learn from chinese drama, can understand some it, but I would love to know how to write n read...

19 hours ago via mobile · Like · 1
Sun Yih Ping If wan to really understand Chinese, wan to handle it well, still hav to attend class.

19 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Chinese not like other language.

One word, can be a lot of meaning, even some word got more than one pronunciation...

19 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Eg
亲

亲人 close relative
亲自 personally
亲家 relative （by marriage）
亲嘴 kiss
亲切 friendly
亲王 prince
父亲 father
母亲 mother
亲子 parent n child
亲近 get close to
可亲 kindly
成亲 get married
。。。。

19 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Mazlyn，i think got one book quite suitable to u.
Tonite when i back home, try to find it.
If i forget, pls remind me.

18 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping That book can help u understand the basic meaning of the chinese character .

18 hours ago via mobile · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping Mazlyn, this is the book...

15 hours ago · Unlike · 1
Sun Yih Ping The content:

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Sun Yih Ping ISBN number

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Wen-Li Chow For reading it is better to have classes to have a strong foundation; speaking would be best practiced with Mandarin speaking friends

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Jessica Chee Chempaka Buddhist Lodge in Tmn Sea Pj..they giv out chinese class on sat ..But dony know whether it's still on.

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Wan W Looi Dr. Mazlyn, for online help, www.nciku.com could be a great reference tool. Selamat belajar and meninjau frontier baru!

nciku - Online English Chinese Dictionary, Learn Chinese Mandarin Online
www.nciku.com

Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary with Chinese handwriting recognit...ion, pinyin translation, audio pronunciation, personalized vocab lists, picture theme words and useful Chinese conversations.See More

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Chin-Huat Wong Mazlyn Mustapha, welcome to the world of Chinese, which is linked to Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Ryukyuan.

When I taught Chinese one-to-one about 15 years ago, my rate is RM 50. If you get a good teacher, then RM 40-60 is not expensive....See More

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