Originally posted by twsa:
I now doing sec 4 higher chinese. the textbk is of no use,seriously.our teachers only use the text book 4 or 5 times per mth.i think for me,reading newspaper does help.
hmm, i was under the old higher chinese syllabus so textbook to us is damn precious....
it all comes down the foundation, same goes for english or any other language. but if u are willing to spend sometime to brush it up, den shld be no problem.
sec sch i still recommend u to use textbook, because das where hints comes from
but of course, if u wan to expand and improve your language, then "reading" newspaper is the best
when i say "read" newspaper, not just read thru, flip it and forget abt it. at the end of the day, u will still forget. My suggestion is that, take a notepad and a pen with u, when u are reading newspaper and see a word that u nvr seen before or u dun understand, write it down in your notepad. do this for every article you read in your newspaper. when u finished reading the newspaper, take a chinese dictionary and check out all the words u do not know. rmb the hanyupinyin and zhao ju of the words (if ur dictionary has it), write down everything.
treat it as ur own little mini dictionary, revise it every now and then.....