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| LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4633 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: Czech* | Message 9 of 13 29 February 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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The only thing that seems to work for me is - take a Chinese phrase or sentence you can already understand spoken, find the necessary characters and write two pages of it.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6228 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 10 of 13 29 February 2012 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||
It will if you keep at it. Writing the characters out and reading more help a lot too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4635 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 11 of 13 29 February 2012 at 3:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I am come to the point where I swear by writing them out. I started by not writing them, but then found writing them to be far more effective in terms of learning.
Even here I have heard stories along the lines of you do not need to write the characters because everything is on computers etc. My own experience here in China is quite the opposite. Being able to write is still important and the printed receipts at shops are awfull, unreadable blobs of dot matrix goodness, so most places still hand write reciepts, this is much harder to read than printed writing. I still can not do it for the simple things though since I have started writing I understand how they are formed better and the handwiritng while still a mystery is much easier to fathom. I have also had e-mails that are simply scanned handwriting or they evidently used some sort of handwriting program, most street signs do not use printed form either and can be quite stylised again I have found hand writing practice to be usefull in their recognition. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JayR9 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4634 days ago 155 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 13 03 March 2012 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for all your rplies.
For the characters on Memrise, I write them down along with their meanings in a book so I can look at when not on the computer. I just try to learn some each day so that I don't over do it by trying to rush and learn. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4635 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 13 of 13 04 March 2012 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I never write Kanji by hand. It feels like a punishment for someone who slaughtered their mother and father - and the puppy.
It's also not necessary and costs time you could spend on learning more words and characters. Just trust the system. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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