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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 1 of 3 23 April 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
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I bought this book today because it sounded like a good book for beginners. I'm not sure if I'll be wild about the mnemonics, but if it works, it works. It's supposed to teach 800 hanzi and some compound hanzi. I'm also using Assimil and Michel Thomas for Mandarin.
I want to know what would be a reasonable goal for working through the book. I was thinking 100 hanzi a month would be reasonable, which would be about 3 a day. Has anyone else used this book? What are your thoughts? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Groatse Newbie United States Joined 4615 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes | Message 2 of 3 26 April 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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I have no experience with the aforementioned book, but I do have some experience in
learning hanzi via mnemonics. You probably will be able to start with a lot faster pace, but when you get to know enough, you need to start reviewing more and more, which takes down the number of new hanzi you can learn per day. Sometimes even bringing learning new ones to a halt. In my experience with hanzi it is a lot smarter not to put up goals that are too fixed, because you will not know how much time you need for review and how much time you have to use for new characters until you've studied for a while. So setting up unrealistic or too easy goals before you start studying might not be good for your learning motivation. No one can say for sure how much is enough or too much for you in the time you allot for hanzi, but you yourself after a few weeks of studying and reviewing. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 3 of 3 26 April 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks.
So far I'm in the very early beginner stage and I'm still having a lot of fun with it. I learned 6 the first day, 3 the second, and 5 today. They've been pretty easy so far and I haven't had much of a problem remembering any. I review the ones I've learned previously everyday, too. Thanks for mentioning that I'll need to review and that the pace will get slower. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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