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| mthmchris Newbie United States Joined 5354 days ago 6 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 10 02 April 2010 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
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Lichtrausch, I think this might end up being the best method. After a little bit of
thinking, here's my plan - let me run it past you experienced polyglots to see if the method seems reasonable ;): 1. Take an article of a website that interests me. I'm a finance nerd, some I'm going to use Hu Shuli's Caing.com. 2. I'll find an article, and using Google Chrome (Chrome has a very integrated translation option), I'll translate the article and have a quick read so I know the general idea of what's going on. 3. I'll go through piece by piece, and look up anything I'm unfamiliar with (which is quite a bit) in dict.cn. Another awesome thing about Google Chrome is that if I double click on a character, I can tell if the author inputted it as one character or as two or more. For example, in the article I'm looking at currently (http://magazine.caing.com/2010-03-28/100129899.html), when I clicked on the character "陈" the entire phrase "五味杂陈" lit up. Now I know that I need to look up the whole phrase, which actually translates pretty well to "to crack a smile" (i.e. to smile when you don't feel like smiling). 4. If I don't know a component character (e.g. looking through an article I just found the character "均") I'll look it up and memorize it using Heisig's mnemonics. 5. I'll read one or two articles per day, and write down all of the characters/words that I don't know in a list. If there's any characters/words that I see at least twice over the course of three articles, I'll know its common and make a flashcard out of it (reviewing flashcards via SLS). Edited by mthmchris on 02 April 2010 at 7:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7181 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 10 of 10 02 April 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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Learning characters in isolation beyond the first few hundred is a really slow way to
learn to read Chinese. You could learn 5000 characters and still not understand a simple article! The Hesig book is good for getting mnemonics into your head so that you can remember how to write the character. Reading though you'll have to remember the tens of thousand ways the characters are combined together. Anyway for writing I think it's much more natural to be able to read fluently and then start on the writing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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