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Snowflake
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 Message 33 of 40
29 September 2011 at 3:25am | IP Logged 
Congradulations on the new arrival! Hope she's sleeping through the night.
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hkboy
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 Message 34 of 40
29 September 2011 at 9:03am | IP Logged 
Thanks Snowflake!
So far so good. She is doing pretty well so far.

Good luck with your Mandarin studies!
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hkboy
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 Message 35 of 40
05 October 2011 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
I have neglected the characters. I just keep putting all my time in comprehension and speaking.

Skritter is the best. However, I think I was more interested in just cramming as many characters in as possible and seeing the statistics showing how many characters I "knew", regardless if I knew them or not.

I've recently deleted all my words at skritter and started again. The turtle wins the prize - slow and steady and just don't stop.

Also, my daughter now has a Chinese name and I'm sure that has inspired me more with the characters. We shall see.
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Snowflake
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 Message 36 of 40
06 October 2011 at 5:33am | IP Logged 
hkboy wrote:
Also, my daughter now has a Chinese name and I'm sure that has inspired me more with the characters. We shall see.


Who chose the name and what does it mean? My kids all have Chinese names but they haven't got a clue as to what those are....we've never used those in speech. And a funny thing is that my husbands' Chinese name and mine means basically the same thing.
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hkboy
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 Message 37 of 40
10 October 2011 at 7:33am | IP Logged 
Snowflake,
卡雅智. The first character is for my last name. My mother-in-law came up with the name. One of the characters sounds like the village we live in but mostly they just liked the sound of it.

Characters: I'm really pacing myself. Last night I only let myself go through one chapter of Heisig. I'll review it again today and practice writing it on Skritter.

Edited by hkboy on 11 October 2011 at 8:50am

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hkboy
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 Message 38 of 40
04 June 2012 at 8:59am | IP Logged 
It's hard to believe I have not updated this log. I've been studying and learning the whole time. I'm still here. I have not reached the advanced level. I can't understand movies or the news but I can converse on most topics. I'm still working at it. I bought the new "Remembering The Hanzi 2"
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zhanglong
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 Message 39 of 40
04 June 2012 at 5:47pm | IP Logged 
Congratulations on all of your life progress and your progress learning Cantonese. Even if you only learn one character a day, make it count and keep the progress up.

One day we'll be able to chat like the native speakers, huh? Heh..
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hkboy
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 Message 40 of 40
05 June 2012 at 2:47am | IP Logged 
Thanks zhanglong. I'm really going to start more with the characters now. I have the added competition with my young daughter. She is only 9 months old but I don't want her 1 day knowing more than I do - haha.


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