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Dedicated to my little brother Phil, who died on Sunday 17th June 2007
aged just 50 & 2 days.

 

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Last Updated: 2nd Sep. 2008

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Avro Vulcan XH558 Flies Again

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You can now learn Mandarin Chinese on this very page!

I've posted videos on YouTube.  I hope you enjoy them.  Click on the My YouTube link in the margin.

Further on down this page, you'll see that I'd like to find a Chinese person interested in exchanging our mutual languages and culture.  Scroll down for more information.

You'll find my digital photographs of Historic Aircraft at Air Displays, the 2004 Sidmouth International Folk Festival featuring Steeleye Span, Kate Rusby and John McCusker.  There are also pictures taken while visiting Denver Colorado and a tour of Scotland including Glasgow, Ben Nevis, Inverness, Aviemore, Linlithgow and Edinburggh.

My photographs of historic aircraft include Edwardian flying machines, a number of Supermarine Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes. Hunters and the sole flying Sea Vixen, triplanes & biplanes.  There is also a regular news item featuring Avro Vulcan XH558, which it is hoped will be flying for the first time in many years soon.
 

What, you may be asking, are the Chinese characters above all about?

Well, I am learning Mandarin Chinese.  That is a greeting to any native Chinese speaker currently living in Plymouth who would like to help me with my studies, perhaps in return for a bit of help with their English studies.  If so, please let me know via the contact link at the bottom of the page.

In order to chase my dream of being able to at least understand Chinese conversation, I am using the Pimsleur Mandarin lessons and the free podcasts to be found at Chinesepod.com.  They have a great community there, and it includes not just lessons, but news and "Saturday" shows, as well as a forum.

I still class myself very much at Newbie level, but I noticed that they didn't have an off-site reporting mechanism for the very few occasions when they go off-line.  I can't do anything about that, of course, but I have started an off-site support group.

Use this widget to hear the latest podcasts, then visit their website

Here, you'll find everything you need to know, and how to get free Mandarin Chinese Podcast lessons - not just one or two, but hundreds of individual podcasts, direct from Shanghai, China.  But those are just the freebie tasters, of course.

Chinesepod.com also have a lot of premium supplementary material for a modest monthly subscription.  As well as a lively forum and regular community shows and activities.

Pimsleur's Mandarin Chinese Lesson Transcriptions

However, my primary learning tool is still Pimsleur's Mandarin Chinese which comes in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.  They are quite expensive, but definitely worth the expenditure if you are serious about learning a language that can help you in business and conversationally.  And you might be able to get them from your local library (you'll need the ISBN numbers).

Pimsleur's Mandarin Chinese lesson transcriptions can be found here on this website.  They don't come with the audio lessons but I've found them very helpful. Click one of the three buttons, below, to go to the various levels.

Lessons

Lessons 1.1 - 1.30 Lessons 2.1 - 2.30 Lessons 3.1 - 3.30

 


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