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Dec 01, 2010 - 10:22 AM
I'm sure that your experiences watching the movies will improve as you continue to practice. As beginners only just mastering the basics for the time being hearing Mandarin spoken fluently can be quite intimidating and it does seem as if they are speaking at a thousand miles an hour. I'm sure you'll continue to improve.
Keep at it and I'm sure you'll be both understanding and speaking Mandarin in no time! You're right in saying that the sessions do get progressively more challenging, every session you have so much more to remember but with plenty of practice you'll be able to make the language more and more automatically without having to pause to think/translate/remember that word you know you've seen before. Its all part of the progress but well worth it in the end.
Keep at it and I'm sure you'll be both understanding and speaking Mandarin in no time! You're right in saying that the sessions do get progressively more challenging, every session you have so much more to remember but with plenty of practice you'll be able to make the language more and more automatically without having to pause to think/translate/remember that word you know you've seen before. Its all part of the progress but well worth it in the end.