What sources & materials do you use when learning Chinese?
sources & materials: books, tapes, texts, websites, etc.

What materials have helped you most ?
What methodology has helped you most ?
This is supposed to be a general post for people to list what methods and materials work best for them. i suppose i didn't make that so clear when i posed the question.

for example, i use a combination of books, websites, dictionaries, and ipad applications.

Reading Comprehension, Grammar, & listening (audio tapes)
汉语教程第二册
Assimil: Chinese with Ease

Pronunciation:
Assimil Chinese with Ease audio tapes

Character Recognition:
Flashonary (free ipad flashcard / dictionary app) - study new vocabulary words
Flashcard Deluxe (paid for ipad flashcard app) - study new vocabulary phrases

Dictionary:
Pleco (ipad chinese dictionary app *with GREAT character writing recognition)
Flashonary Websites:
translate.google.com (great dictionary, character to pinyin (with tones), & translation tool for phrases)
nciku.com (dictionary, character recognition)
italki.com (posing questions about chinese and grammar understanding)

Question

What sources & materials do you use when learning Chinese?
sources & materials:  books, tapes, texts, websites, etc.

What materials have helped you most ? 
What methodology has helped you most ?
This is supposed to be a general post for people to list what methods and materials work best for them.  i suppose i didn't make that so clear when i posed the question.

for example, i use a combination of books, websites, dictionaries, and ipad applications.

Reading Comprehension, Grammar, & listening (audio tapes)
汉语教程第二册
Assimil:  Chinese with Ease

Pronunciation:
Assimil Chinese with Ease audio tapes

Character Recognition:
Flashonary (free ipad flashcard / dictionary app) - study new vocabulary words
Flashcard Deluxe (paid for ipad flashcard app) - study new vocabulary phrases

Dictionary:
Pleco (ipad chinese dictionary app *with GREAT character writing recognition)
Flashonary Websites:
translate.google.com (great dictionary, character to pinyin (with tones), & translation tool for phrases)
nciku.com (dictionary, character recognition)
italki.com (posing questions about chinese and grammar understanding)

Answer

To learn 漢字 I use:
- Remember Traditional Hanzi Book 1 by James W. Heisig (you can also find a simplified version).
- Chinese Characters - A Genealogy and Dictionary (web version at http://www.zhongwen.com/).
- ANKI flashcards to do repetitions on the characters I'm learning.

To learn chinese in general:
- I put sentences I like in my ANKI, complete with the audio (if available) and do repetitions in the following way: I read aloud the chinese sentence, listen to the audio, repeat it and then write down the whole sentence.

To reinforce my listening skills:
- I watch A LOT of movies/dramas/shows in chinese, you can easily get access to a whole universe of fresh material by downloading and installing PPS, a software that allows for online streaming.
- I listen to songs I like and learn them by heart.

To reinforce my reading skills:
- I read a lot of mangas translated in chinese and generally books which I already know in english that have been translated (you can check ouy yesasia.com for this kind of stuff).

Hope it's been helpful to you and everybody else :)

Answer

I use Chinese peotry，it will be easy to find out new words，：D

Answer

I think you need some simple Chinese books.

Answer

chinese book

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