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How to use a memory system to memorise Chinese characters with the 'System Method'. An explanation of what you need to learn when studying Mandarin Chinese, 'the four essentials' of each character. How to learn to write more attractive and cool looking Chinese characters that look more like the ones Chinese write themselves.
A funny book with amusing illustrations.
Experiences seeking enlightenment in Sichuan near Tibet and Taiwan's Fo Guang Shan temple. Learning, failing to learn or professionally using Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and Japanese. Getting bitten by a werewolf dog in Sichuan.
Working as Mandarin Chinese legal adviser in London when you don't yet speak fluent Chinese and have to answer complicated legal questions in Mandarin, but you can't understand a word of what the other person is saying.
Experiences studying a distance learning law degree.
How to use a memory system in that setting to gain a law degree (LLB) in three years while working for under 4000 British pounds or 6000 USD TOTAL costs (including some online lessons, sample essay marking and legal books for three years).
What it's like taking a training contract as a trainee lawyer/solicitor in the immigration and criminal law fields in London, England.
It includes a period returning to the UK when I had no home, no job and no qualifications and how I went about changing that. A fruitless but amusing search for the meaning of life at a buddhist temple in Si Chuan Province in China and how this relates to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's lack of central heating and English chocolate digestive biscuits habit. How to find work as an international English teacher. Food is a theme throughout.
How to do language exchanges to learn for free, achieve better fluency or even study any language from scratch. The pitfalls to watch out for such as avoiding people in very different time zones.
There are ten or more fun illustrations included some of which you can see on my author page. Below are some quotes from the book.
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I was running a drop in service. Chinese people, who could not speak English, would come to me with their everyday problems. These could be anything ranging from everyday advice, help making arrangements, telephoning people, asking how to set up a business and the like, but the big one was reading their mail for them.
I wish I was able to meet each one again now. Shake them by the hand and say thank you!
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They are from provinces like Fu Jian and aware that there is a standard way to pronounce the 'shi' and the 'si' characters, but they don't know which is which.
They normally just pronounce all of them as 'si'. But, then they hear me trying to speak very clearly all the time, with my goal being that they can hopefully understand everything I say.
Unfortunately, it has an unintended effect.
They figure, ok, you're obviously trying to speak really clearly, so I will too.
I'm going to speak really Chinese Central news service standard now. They then start randomly turning some 'shi' sounds into 'si' sounds and some 'si' sounds into 'shi'. They have effectively made it four times as difficult to understand.
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This devil dog I did not care for, but then neither did I want to hit it with the metal rod as the only reason it was here was the Head Monk was feeding it. Thinking about it, I should hit him over the head with the metal pipe.
'Aaawwww!! OUUCH!! What did you do that for???!!!' The Head Monk would say.
'Cos you're a bloody idiot!'
Mandarin Mastery Learn Mandarin Get a Law Degree and Read the Tibetan Book of the Dead on the Way edition by Hastings Cavendish Elizabeth Zola Reference eBooks
I love reading about people who are thrust into seemingly impossible situations and are able to figure out a way to make it work. Whether it is through the pages of a fantasy novel or a real life memoir, it doesn't matter much to me yet I have found over the years that truth is often stranger than fiction. Author Hastings Cavendish has given us just that with his delightful recounting of his time in London, working as a Mandarin Chinese legal adviser when he didn't speak a word of the language.Cavendish is a talented writer and he could probably be writing about putting his slippers on in the morning and hold my interest. However, the subject matter here was incredibly interesting and highly entertaining. Cavendish gives a recount of his education in which he earned a distance learning law degree on very little income. He developed a pretty ingenious method of memorization that allowed him to do this in just three years while living on a shoestring budget. He also gives a highly entertaining account of working with Chinese people and the methods by which he learned their language. The things that they approached the service for ranged from the serious to the silly.
Cavendish can tell a story - no doubt. I laughed out loud multiple times and some of the illustrations in the book certainly aided in the mental image. Whether you know a foreign language or not, have been to London or ever dream of going there, care about the law or don't, this is a delightful read that is both engaging and inspiring. Well done.
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Mandarin Mastery Learn Mandarin Get a Law Degree and Read the Tibetan Book of the Dead on the Way edition by Hastings Cavendish Elizabeth Zola Reference eBooks Reviews
I guess I'm the lone reader who was not "in" on the joke? This book made no sense to me, it was sort of like being in a manic ADHD brain - lots of creative descriptions, lots of talking about food and lots of jumping around from this to that to something else entirely from paragraph to paragraph.
It seems like the author has a steady group of fans, but I'm obviously not his target audience because I still don't know what the book was about. It was like one long introduction and I kept waiting for the book to start, for the point I guess.
First off, don't download this book if you actually want to achieve Mandarin Mastery, and for god's sakes don't actually buy this book if that's your goal. You will learn NO CHINESE from this disingenuously named book.
That out of the way, this is the wierdest book I have read in a long time. The book has nothing to do with teaching Mandarin as suggested in the title, and everything to do with swindling those with mandarin mastery in mind into reading... something else. It is a strange stream of unconciousness babble-fest from the throes of untreated ADHD. A memoir of sorts, describing various adventures trying to learn Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) as well as that other Chinese language (or so the Chinese say)... Tibetan.
How a guy with such an apparently disordered mind is a lawyer is beyond me, though he claims to be, and he can't lie, right,? This is non-fiction, after all. Harumph. And how or why he bothered to write this I have no idea. It might be he is just trying to learn how to write so that someday when he has some actual content, he will be ready.
On the other hand there are some funny stories here, if such à froth of stuff that pops into a typist's head can actually be called stories. And hey, Kerouac got paid for a drunken first draft of Dharma Bums and that thing about Cody... so why shouldn't Cavendish. This actually beats some of the stuff by the Beats. There is no wanking at a desolate bus station... or even on a pristine Shanghai bullet train. You might well get a laugh from portions of this book despite yourself... and that's something Kerouac never achieved, even in his good book. So maybe that's a good a reason to take a crack at this read. Just lower your standards, like you did for Jack, ok?
In the meantime, if you want a memoir that really doesn't inform you who you are reading about or why in the name of god, why... this is the book for you.
I love reading about people who are thrust into seemingly impossible situations and are able to figure out a way to make it work. Whether it is through the pages of a fantasy novel or a real life memoir, it doesn't matter much to me yet I have found over the years that truth is often stranger than fiction. Author Hastings Cavendish has given us just that with his delightful recounting of his time in London, working as a Mandarin Chinese legal adviser when he didn't speak a word of the language.
Cavendish is a talented writer and he could probably be writing about putting his slippers on in the morning and hold my interest. However, the subject matter here was incredibly interesting and highly entertaining. Cavendish gives a recount of his education in which he earned a distance learning law degree on very little income. He developed a pretty ingenious method of memorization that allowed him to do this in just three years while living on a shoestring budget. He also gives a highly entertaining account of working with Chinese people and the methods by which he learned their language. The things that they approached the service for ranged from the serious to the silly.
Cavendish can tell a story - no doubt. I laughed out loud multiple times and some of the illustrations in the book certainly aided in the mental image. Whether you know a foreign language or not, have been to London or ever dream of going there, care about the law or don't, this is a delightful read that is both engaging and inspiring. Well done.
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