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Tolerating Ambiguity: How to Cope With Not Understanding When Learning Chinese

I'm Learning Mandarin

CHAPTER

The Experience of Listening to the Radio

Dei toty studied chinese for the first time between two thousand seven and two thousand nine. To stay in touch with the language, he listened to chinese radio for about five years. The experience of listen ingto the radio helped him at least to loosen and recognize the tones. When i moved to higher levelsd, when i went to china, i went to study the language leisurely. And i noticed that i could understand a lot after two weeks. I don't know if i'm ready to make that claim, but it definitely helped me to get used to the sounds of the language - which is the first step in tolerating ambiguity in spoken chinese.

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