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Learning Massive Amounts of Chinese vocab in a short time?
I’m a translator, my speciality is Japanese/English. I’d really love to get to the reading proficiency level in Chinese as well. Since I have a background in Japanese, most of the characters I can read or figure out. But the problem is simply remembering all that vocab.
I live in Japan right now, if I could spend a year or two in China to study I would.
I’m not a huge believer in quick-learning gadgets and gimmicks and whatnot, but I’m taking the HSK in Novemvber (Chinese proficiency test), and my vocabulary is pathetic. Any tricks, good methods, or books or CDs/iphone apps/anything?
thanks harry. Everyone told me Chinese grammar was easy, but the more I learn the less credible that statement seems.
As for living in China two years, I agree that’s probably the best, but not right now. Stuck in Japan for now.
In your unique situation, the best ways are :
1. Try to watch Chinese government TV, most of them have the Chinese caption on too.
2. Try to read Chinese web news ..
For item 1 above, try to avoid the really popular Chinese soap TVs and stick with government propaganda films [I once watched one that focused on farmers raising rabbits in Shanxi caves, etc. They are like the PBS in the USA .. much better than the commercial junk]. The vocabulary you pick up will be the respectable ones that might come up in an official examinations too.
Phoenix TV from Hong Kong have very good interview shows — similar quality to the ‘Charlie Rose’ interviews.
You should be able to go to your cable TV provider in Japan and order these channels — CCTV channel 4 is the Chinese government propaganda channel [similar to DWTV from Germany, NHK from Japan, Channel 5 from France, etc., all free channels donated by respective governments]. Phoenix TV is commercial, yet quite intellectual. We can buy them in USA, so you should be able to buy it in Japan.
As for Chinese grammar, the term itself is oxymoron. We Chinese are not built for discipline, why would we want to invent rules to tie ourselves up when we speak ? Only the Western mind could not live without rules .. which is why you have stop signs in each and every small intersection [I bet you can attest that even in Japan, the most disciplined chopstick country there is, you can find many intersections without stop signs ..]
The Western concept of grammar is the most disappointing part of their culture, inventing rules that has no practical effect — example — I am born in 1980. Poor grammar, yet perfectly understood. Why having those rules in the first place ?
Long time no see is 好久不见 literally translated by Chinese Coolies in America. Terrible grammar, yet so well understood we adopted it as our own. I have an American colleague hitting Chinese learning really hard for his once in a life time trip to Shanghai. At the end of the business meeting he said 再见明天 nobody understood him. After repeating the 5th time or something, totally humiliated, they burst out — oh, oh, 明天再见 .. If you cannot even switch these words front and back, there is no way to discern grammatical rules ..
My friend was making the translation directly — from ‘See you tomorrow’ ..
You should be thanking heaven above that we Chinese are wise enough not to put senseless rules in our language. What happens happens, and we pretty much stay with the flow, and violate that, you won’t be understood .. 
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