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| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6403 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes  2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 17 of 41 16 November 2010 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Really? How do you explain this wordplay then: 隨你的大便 :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 18 of 41 17 November 2010 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
That's still pretty amazing. On an interesting note, I'm beginning to understand a few words here and there that I listen to on my iPod. Not enough to decipher sentences or meaning, but it's a nice reward to suddenly understand a word that you hear. Got my 25 characters done today as well; didn't get nearly as much listening time as I would have liked, but life happens. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5127 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 19 of 41 17 November 2010 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
LOL... maybe it isn't a wordplay and the speaker means it literally; they're just as interested in 大便 as we are ;p 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 20 of 41 19 November 2010 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hey kiddoes. Everything's still going well. I'm not getting as much Chinese listening
time as I would like, but school's been getting pretty busy. Still on track with my characters; taking a break on Friday to review all of the characters I've acquired so far (I'm at #200 in the book). Some of the characters are a lot easier for me to remember. I really like 痲, 林, 要 so far. They're just so much fun to right. I can't seem, for the life of me, to remember characters like 王 and 言. Some characters are just easier to remember than others. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 21 of 41 22 November 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Man,am I glad I took Friday off. My retention was brutal! I've pretty much got
things under control over the weekend, but I'm going to need to spend more time reviewing as it is. I went to the reference library today and looked at all of the language resources on the shelves with a sad face. So many great courses... but no good Mandarin books! I caught myself reading "Colloquial Vietnamese" with a bit of wanderlust... Back to the Hanzi! I'm at #250 in my book, which pretty great, but my book teaches some of the most obscure characters ever! I mean, I understand the reason for learning the character for plum tree, but it's not the most useful character to know. In order to sate my need for relevant characters, I've added five Hanzi from Yong Ho's "Chinese- English Frequency Dictionary" on top of my usual 25 per day. My mom also, bless her heart, bought me a 25$ gift certificate to iTunes to buy *legal* music. I think I'm going to just buy Anki mobile instead ;). That way I can listen to Mandarin podcasts and review Hanzi on my half hour commute from school every day. The first week has gone pretty well. My Hanzi schedule has been established, and I'm at 30 Hanzi a day. It doesn't sound like much, but flipping through my children's novel, I can make out one or two of the simpler phrases, which is very exciting! I am very satisfied with how things are going right now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5961 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 22 of 41 22 November 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||||||||
The reason it does this is, assuming it's laid out like my Japanese kanji book was, because later, more important characters are built from these simpler, but perhaps less useful characters. This way when you get to something complicated with lots of components, it's easier to recognize the components and put them together than to just learn it as a whole and have to memorize way more seemingly random lines and squiggles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6289 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 23 of 41 22 November 2010 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes, do that! I found Anki mobile INCREDIBLY useful to get me to do my Anki reviews regularly, especially the Chinese deck which is always 300-something reviews per day. I've never studied so much Anki as since I got the iPhone app. At home, it's more fun and less distracting than sitting at the computer. On the go, it allows me to turn a waste of time into the most productive time of the day! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5071 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 24 of 41 25 November 2010 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Mmm-hmm, I'm figuring this out pretty quickly now. I'm getting into some good, useful characters now, which is exciting.
Ugh, it's been a nightmare trying to install the damn thing! First I try and buy it, then it tells me I'm like 60 cents short because of tax and such. So I quickly popped out and bought a $15 gift card. Then I download the thing and I find out that I need a newer version of iPod software (I still have a first generation iPod), which made me angry, because I just got this maybe two years ago! So then I have to go and BUY the stupid software, which I spent AGES looking for, until finally found it. Ugh, not fun. It better be damn worth it! xD A quick update: I'm really proud of myself for keeping on track with my character projection. This week has been absolutely crazy in school, but I've never had a day yet where I didn't do my 25, even if it was a somewhat half-assed job. The characters are progressing by quickly and, strangely, I'm actually enjoying this step! It's so fun to see new characters in the Chinese books that I've borrowed from my library; not enough to make anything comprehensible, but just picking out the characters is fun. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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