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| Message 1 of 1 11 December 2006 at 7:30am | IP Logged |
Stanislas Julien 1797-1873 (lived almost 76 years)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_Julien
Wikipedia wrote:
| ...on Chinese, and his progress was as rapid as it had been in other languages. From the first, as if by intuition, he mastered the genius of the language; |
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Wikipedia wrote:
| The facility with which he had learned Chinese, and the success which his proficiency commanded, naturally inclined less gifted scholars to resent the impatience with which he regarded their mistakes... |
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Wikipedia wrote:
| One great secret by which Julien acquired his grasp of Chinese, was, as we have said, his methodical collection of phrases and idiomatic expressions. Whenever in the course of his reading he met with a new phrase or expression, he entered it on a card which took its place in regular order in a long series of boxes. At his death he left, it is said, 250,000 of such cards, about the fate of which, however, little seems to be known. |
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I wonder what his review methods were.
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