Chinese
Tuesday 20th June
Do you know how to learn 64 Chinese characters in a week?
Practice…
I just counted my week’s worth of papers, and there are over 60 sheets of A6 filled with characters and pinyin transliteration.
Ah well… it seems to be working. And they’re not wasted sheets because they’re the backs of sheets which would have gone into the recycling bucket.
10 points to anyone who spots an error!
Haven’t you missed out the apostrophe on the fourth line of the twenty-third sheet?
*runs and hides, giggling*
JG
20 Jun 06 at 5:39 pm
Did you misspell 視?
Nick
20 Jun 06 at 8:53 pm
simplified chinese. do u plan to learn traditional chinese characters as well? i squinted abit but can’t spot any errors as yet
boo
21 Jun 06 at 9:50 am
I’m really torn between simplified and traditional characters. Maybe you can add some advice…? I was told that it was best to learn simplified characters because they’re using in mainland China - however, I noticed that the free newspaper I picked up from the Oriental Food Store was written with traditional characters.
Argh! Too difficult!
My dictionary only lists simplified characters, too. I guess I will learn simplified characters first and traditional as needed. I’ve already started learning some of the common differences with radicals etc, so it shouldn’t be too hard (ha ha!)
stu
21 Jun 06 at 12:32 pm
I’m impressed - but how many of the 64 stayed learned??? I was annoyed to find out that the Chinese had simplified some characters so that they were no longer the same as the Japanese ones I theoretically knew, thereby removing the possibility of recognising the few characters I learned/remember! I’ll have to try your technique to re-learn them.
qaminante
21 Jun 06 at 1:46 pm
Hello,
I would like to share some useful resources to learn Chinese :
- Chinese-English dictionary : An easy-to-use dictionary with over 34,000 entries. It can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Audio pronunciation is available.
- Learn Chinese : Free Mandarin Chinese lessons. Each of the 15 units contain easy to understand dialogues, usage notes and a practice page.
Good luck.
Chinese learner
16 Jul 06 at 9:37 pm
And here’s also a Chinese phrase-finder you might find useful for finding alternative ways of expressing yourself.
Hope it helps!
adina
4 Sep 06 at 9:47 am