<p>Is there anyone out there who took the Chinese SAT II who didn't learn Chinese from their parents, in a Chinese school, or in China and if you do exist (...I'm starting to think you don't...XP) could you answer some questions? </p>
<p>If you took it and are a native speaker, feel free to answer the questions, but <em>please</em> don't write "oh, it was ridiculously easy" or "any kindergartener could get an 800" because I've been taking Chinese for three years, so therefore I am technically around the same speaking ability as a preschooler. :P</p>
<p>Anyways, my questions (I don't care if you only answer one or answer all...I just really need answers...)</p>
<p>About the test:
- how fast do the people talk?
- what type of accent do they have?
- were there any words that popped up constantly? (Outside things like 是 and 个 and 有 etc...)
- how much of the test asked questions about word order/grammar?
- how many characters would you say someone should know?
- would it be possible to score decently (as in, about a 600, which I know is like the 3rd percentile, but it's good enough for me) if you, say, completely bombed the speaking part?</p>
<p>About studying and stuff:
- how long did you study Chinese?
- what was your score?
- how the **** should I study? </p>
<p>thank you, thank you, thank you. 谢谢. :P</p>
<p>PS: I know there is the SAT II book, but there is only one practice test in it. I plan on buying the book, but I'd really like to use the practice test after I've studied a bit. Does anyone know where I could find others?</p>
<p>I didnt take the test, but you can PM languagefreak…he is planning to take the Chinese SAT soon, but he is a master of all possible languages pretty much :P</p>
<p>what type of accent do they have?
I am guessing that they speak the same as people in Beijing…I think that is the ‘standard’.</p>
<p>thanks…yeah, I probably shouldn’t take it, but my Chinese teacher thinks I can do well. </p>
<p>The problem with Chinese is that (at least to me) every other speaker seems to have their own little dialect and speaking quirks. I know people who (for example) pronounce “ts” (c in pinyin) like a tzadik (ts), ch, c, s…yeah.</p>
<p>ya well the problem with Chinese is that there are so many different dialects…I have my grandma visiting right now, and she speaks a dialect I can hardly understand. Of course I can hardly understand the ‘regular’ Chinese…</p>
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<li>From what I remember, the people didn’t talk really fast. However, I am best at understanding chinese (as opposed to reading and writing it).</li>
<li>They speak in the pu tong accent</li>
<li>I think that there were a couple of questions in with you had to distinguish the three different de’s. I don’t really remember becuase I took it about year ago.</li>
<li>well, a third of the test is listening comp. (no grammar) a third is fill in the blank (so i suppose that’s where the grammer comes in) and a third is reading comprehension (no grammar)</li>
<li>Speaking part? do you mean listening part? becuase I didn’t have to speak in my test. </li>
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<p>I am Chinese, but I wasn’t born in China. As I was growing up, I learned how to speak Shanghainese, and then around 11 or so, my mom sent me to Chinese school to learn how to read and write (I wasn’t very good). In total, I’ve learned the pu tong dialet for about 5 years.
What mainly allowed me to pass the test was that it gives you alot of options. the questions come in various forms (simplified, traditional, pinyin, and one other). Since I was really good at pinyin, I used that to answer most of the questions. (However, these options are only available in the fill-in-the-blank section)</p>
<p>I got a 750 (everything I got wrong was in reading comprehension)</p>
<p>You should get a book or something. Books have disks where you can practice listening, and they have sample tests.</p>
<p>Hope my answers helped in some way!
Good luck</p>