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| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5310 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 17 of 89 12 January 2013 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello fellow Team 鶴 member!
I'm somewhat jealous of your ability to commit to just one language. I agree they talk fast, but sticking with watching is going to help a lot, something I could do well to learn from! Bakunin - 20 characters a week at 52 weeks a year is 1040, so just over that mark. It's so fun when you can start writing by hand, but I agree it seems to take ages to get the things to stick in active, productive memory. Best of luck for 2013! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 18 of 89 12 January 2013 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Littleboy. I am finding it tough to stick to mandarin I have to admit, I had a DVD on the other day in
Cantonese and I just love the sound of it so much that I am desperate to learn it! But I figure it's only going to confuse me if I try and dive into both mandarin and canto at this point. 12/1/13 - Assimil 59 done. First 20 characters are down, listed out the ones I am going to learn over week 2. NPCR lesson 7 done. I decided to start on Pimsleur as well, so I have done lesson 2 today of Pimsleur 2. Watched Jaws last night dubbed into mandarin. Terrible dubbing and the subtitles were traditional and totally different to what was being said! Don't felt I learnt a massive amount, but I was able to understand the odd word here and there, and at least I now know the word for shark! Still waiting on my hanzi poster to arrive! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 19 of 89 16 January 2013 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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16/1/13 - Assimil 62 done. Pimsleur lesson 5 done. I also got given Chinese Made Easier and so I dived into the
first book today, started at lesson 9 and went through it with the audio. Haven't had a chance to do any NPCR yet. Been listening to Star Wars and Gulliver's Travels audio books at night as I fall asleep and just letting it play until the morning. Also today my hanzi poster arrived so i've put that up and marked off what I know, I'm excited to try and fill it up! When I have finished my characters for this week I will start going through it in order 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 20 of 89 19 January 2013 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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19/1/13 - Pimsleur unit 7 done today, and Assimil 66. Into Chinese Made Easier book 2, lesson 11. Filled my anki
deck up today with the words I learnt this week, I am now up to 1000 words in there. Hanzi deck has reached the 250 mark aswell. I have put my hanzi poster just by the door to my bedroom, so every time I leave/enter I look at the hanzi I have circled to learn this week. Redid this months team challenge as an audio clip. I wrote out what I wanted to say in English and then translated it as I went through which in hindsight was perhaps not the best way of doing it. I didn't want to script it with pinyin, but if I tried to do it thinking on the spot I think it would have been terrible. Oh well, things can only get better with time! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maurelio1234 Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6080 days ago 61 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 21 of 89 19 January 2013 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
How much time are you spending with character learning every day? Are you only learning how to write them or how to use them in contex too? I personally think 1000 characters a year is too low... I learned 1000 characters in something like 2 or 3 months, 2h a day... But I was not trying to learn how to write them, only to recognize them. I was not trying to get 100% retention either... 80% retention on 1250 characters is much easer to achieve than 100% on 1000 ;). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 22 of 89 19 January 2013 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am spending maybe 20 minutes or so a day at the moment on characters. I am learning how to write them and
use them in context. I don't have two hours a day to spare so I can't spend that amount of time learning hanzi unfortunately. 1000 characters in 2-3 months is very good, but for me 1000 a year is not too low if I am able to write them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4678 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 23 of 89 19 January 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just saying, you cannot "use characters in context". You can "use words in context", but that's a different thing. Using characters in context would be like using morphemes in context, something I have no idea how to do ;)
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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 24 of 89 19 January 2013 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Just because you don't know how to do it, doesn't mean it can't be done :-D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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