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Mnemonics for tones - turvy - 2012-07-14
Well, I am using mnemonics for radicals, initials and finals, all that with the intent to learn the 3000 simplified hanzi along with their most common reading. The problem is finding a hole in the stories for the tones. Anyone has any ideas?
Mnemonics for tones - rcloud - 2012-07-18
Try using a different color for each tone and then for each story imagine that the main element of the story is that color.
Mnemonics for tones - aphasiac - 2012-07-19
I have found colourizing the hanzi / pinyin using anki's Chinese plugin, when learning vocab and sentences, helps me remember them. I now remember certain words are certain colour combinations through sheer repetition.
Of course practicing speaking and listening is the best way to learn them, but as a beginner this is not practical (as i still find it hard differentiating tones aurally).
Mnemonics for tones - turvy - 2012-07-27
Color?, that sounds cool, alright.
Mnemonics for tones - Dunki - 2012-07-30
Hi turvy,
There was an article about tones tricks on sinosplice.
Pasden used to associate tones with emotions.
It is described here : http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2006/12/13/mandarin-tone-tricks
Then it should be straightforward to associate a color with an emotion and hence a tone as aphasiac suggested earlier.
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Dunki
Mnemonics for tones - turvy - 2012-07-30
What colors are you using and how do you use them exactly? Do you make up stories or just hope the color will help a bit with the memorization itself. I am kind of hoping for the latter. After so much mnemonic effort I think I am ready for some brute force sheer repetition let's write them until we bleed systematic approach.
I settled for red, orange, pink and blue. Green and blue are too similar for me so I didn't want to mix them and pink I just like it. I have something like red is war, rage; blue is wisdom, science; orange is earth, nature and pink is dreams, magic and/or fantasy.
I don't know how useful this will be but it will surely make it more fun to review and plow through the interminable stack of hanzi.
Mnemonics for tones - russunicorn88 - 2012-11-19
Rather than using colors you other things you can try are countries ( see KBurchfiel shared stories) or different characters (See "Learning Chinese Characters" by Matthews). Experiment a bit if needed to find something which will keep the stories distinct from each other.