Talk:Chinese (Mandarin)/Planning

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Since the Simplified Chinese is the domaint Chinese script in the world now, and not to make the learners confused, I think we should intial the Simplified Chinese lesson textbook first. Of course, a Traditional Chinese textbook is very necessary, but it's very easy to convert simpilified Chinese into traditional Chinese by softwares like Nanjixing or Miscosoft Office. I don't how many sentense patterns need to be taught. maybe we can find some other textbook as reference. --Yacht 12:38, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

hi...some questions
wow...this seems like an awesome undertaking...so all my comments are not designed to offend but rather to knowledgeify myself and hopefully raise some valid points:P


 * what is the end goal of this project...i.e. how far do you guys (and me hopefully) plan to expand the lessons until? fluency? or just enough that one could get around in china w/out too much trouble? or are you guys going for 言文言.


 * the formating of the lessons...as most of them are incomplete atm. i just looked at lesson 1. it's quite good i might add :)... but from my experience teaching non-native speakers, it's VERY helpful to have the pin ying above the corresponding characters. now...for the tests i made for my students i had to do some funky spacing in ms word...is there a way to do that on wiki? or through a program? because most of the standard textbooks (whether for non-native speakers or for young children) have the pin ying above the characters to aid in pronounciation. for example, if a student sees 老师 enough times with lǎo shī above it, when the time comes for them to read w/out pin ying, they see 老师 and associate it with lǎo shī and thus are able to pronounce it. whereas if there is not the constant association, they have trouble recalling the pronounciation.


 * the lessons (at least the ones i looked at 1, 2, and 7) seem a little fast paced. students like it when they can work through a lesson and they are left with a sense of accomplishment. from a non-native speaker's point of view, lesson 1 is a bit on the long and hard side...is it possible to restructure the lessons so we have more lessons but less content in each?

thanks for taking the time to read my points...i know i sound like an insufferable twit talking about "my experiences" and stuff...but i just want to help :) the answers to my queries may already be somewhere on the talks pages of the project...but i have trouble keeping track of 1 talk page...let alone dozens...so if the answers are already somewhere...could someone redirect me or fill me in? please and thank you...so for now...i await your replies...:)

ZeChinaman 17:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Edit: by hard lessons i meant the vocabulary...the conversations are fine...but the vocabulary is hard to take in one go...repetition in the lessons wouldn't hurt either. is it possible/practical to make the text bigger? i find that non-native speakers/readers have a hard time reading Unicode typed chinese. i can record/upload some sound files too...reading the sound upload guide atm....cheers :) ZeChinaman 17:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Roadmap?
The roadmap on the main page is somewhat behind considering the lessons have already reached 8. Is there an updated, more current plan to the direction this book is going? MiltonT 13:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)