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| aerozeplyn Senior Member United States Joined 5090 days ago 141 posts - 202 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 25 of 27 25 January 2014 at 12:37pm | IP Logged |
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I wonder if you made your goal to finish FSI? That would be so awesome...such a feat!
Frankly, I believe you are wasting a ton of time and energy with Skritter. Skritter is nice, but writing Chinese characters is merely a long-term memory game for the order that radicals are written. Basically, you're attacking a long-term problem with short-term methods. Since I started using the Golf List method for my ability to produce Chinese characters, I have never gone back to writing characters everyday. I have saved soooo much time and I have so many characters foreva in my long-term memory :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yele Newbie United States Joined 4112 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 26 of 27 17 February 2014 at 9:19pm | IP Logged |
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@ aerozeplyn~ I got halfway through module 8 before giving it up. Sometimes I keep listening to it but only when I need to do something mundane like walking to the post office. The lessons start to get crazy fast and it became difficult for me to keep up, or keep interest. Some words feel really outdated.
I'll check out the golf list method, its the first time ive heard of it. **Update** I'm back on track with my studies! Every day I listen to & read 1 entry of slow-chinese. I started to shadow these dialogues to see if it'll help with my pronunciation and oral skills, I noticed that by doing this it also helps my comprehension but can be annoying to have one sentence on loop so many times. I add any unfamiliar words to skritter and review them as well. On a different note, I finally tackled my massive queue so now the reviews are easy to go through. I woke up today with a pleasant 100 reviews that took me less than 10 minutes to go through. Then after I finished my shadowing I added the unfamiliar vocab and added about 20 new words and did those reviews. I ended up over-skrittering today and spent about an hour BUT this was by choice since I was waiting for my computer to update :D I'm finally going to China in a month so I'm really excited and nervous all at the same time. For a while I was starting to feel home-sick just at the thought of leaving for 6 months but now its past me.. for now. I'm still trying to get myself to make a concrete study plan. Its kind of hard but so far I like the slow-chinese approach. I love reading little bits about chinese culture. This week I read about the other ways to use 死, the different 语言spoken in China, and also (yes I cheated I read ahead) about two famous alcoholic drinks in China 白酒 and 黄酒. I don't drink but I saw these two beverages mentioned in the past so it was interesting to get a little info about them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5807 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 27 of 27 17 February 2014 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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I think aerozeplyn meant to write "gold" list method (http://huliganov.tv/goldlist-eu/). I haven't heard of a golf list method, either.
What are you going to China for? Six months? Have fun! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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