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Level 1, Lesson 1-11: MASSIVE Audio Review

Published August 13th, 2008 in Lesson 8, Lesson 7, Lesson 9, Lesson 10, Lesson 11, Lesson 6, Lesson 5, Review, Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4 and Level 1, Part 1. 1 Comment

Here at the ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog we’re still working on getting caught up, but the wait is finally over for you fans of the ChinesePod audio review “Fix.” We’ve got some long ones to review the lessons we’ve covered through Lesson 11.
First, we have the Fix for lessons 9-11, in both long and short […]

Level 1, Intro + Lesson 1-2: Audio Review

Published September 28th, 2007 in Lesson 2, Review, Lesson 1 and Level 1, Part 1. 3 Comments

So you’re learning Chinese through Integrated Chinese. You liked the Fix audio review for Lesson 1, and you liked it for Lesson 2. If only there were some way to combine the contents of the two into one single, beautiful audio Fix file. Ah, but there is!
Enough talk. Let’s get down to it. Here’s your […]

Level 1, Intro + Lesson 1-2: Related Lesson Review

Published September 26th, 2007 in Lesson 2, Related Lessons, Review, Lesson 1 and Level 1, Part 1. 0 Comments

Normally we would give you some new lessons here to complement your Integrated Chinese lessons. The idea is that after you’ve finished another three lessons or so, there’s a broader range of lessons you can tackle.
Unfortunately, when the lessons you’ve covered are only Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, the range isn’t quite as broad. So […]

Level 1, Intro + Lesson 1-2: Vocabulary Review

Published September 24th, 2007 in Review, Lesson 2, Vocabulary, Lesson 1, Introduction and Level 1, Part 1. 1 Comment

If you’ve been diligently studying Integrated Chinese all this time, you’ve built up quite a repertoire of vocabulary already. Time for a little break to review and consolidate what you’ve learned. This week will be just for review.
I recommend you try out Dmitry Chirkin’s Integrated Chinese Vocabulary Trainer. It works for every IC lesson, and […]

Level 1, Lesson 1: Review

Published September 14th, 2007 in Review, Lesson 1 and Level 1, Part 1. 3 Comments

Lesson 1 of Integrated Chinese starts off with a big vocabulary bang, so you’ll be wanting a tool for audio review. That’s where ChinesePod’s “the Fix” comes in.
Two words you’ll find missing in the Fix for Lesson 1 are the sentence-final particles 吗 (ma) and 呢 (ne). This is because these words are rarely if […]

Level 1, Lesson 1: Related Lessons

Published September 12th, 2007 in Related Lessons, Lesson 1 and Level 1, Part 1. 1 Comment

Integrated Chinese Level 1, Lesson 1 is about greetings, and the content takes the form of two dialogues. We’ll break down our related ChinesePod lessons that way.
Dialogue 1: Exchanging Greetings
This is the basic dialogue about asking someone’s name and stating one’s own name. See these ChinesePod lessons for reinforcement:

Newbie - Intro 2: What’s your name? […]

Level 1, Lesson 1: Vocabulary

Published September 10th, 2007 in Vocabulary, Lesson 1 and Level 1, Part 1. 5 Comments

Lesson 1 of Integrated Chinese starts with… (surprise, surprise!) …greetings. To get a better feel for how some of the words are used, click on the ChinesePod Dictionary links below. With each dictionary entry you’ll find sample sentences with rollover annotation (try mousing over the words in the sentences!) as well as audio recordings. The […]

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