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Thread: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japanese] Post: RE: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Ja... Using a specific universe sounds like a very interesting idea! Not sure if I know any fictional universe well enough to use for a even a hundred words, but I'll give it a try. |
zonius | Learning resources | 7 | 1,450 | 2015-11-20, 4:50 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japanese] Post: RE: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Ja... Thanks for the replies, it seems that mostly people don't feel the need to go to such length as create Heisig-style stories. Well, maybe still some ideas as to how I can keep word-stories separate fro... |
zonius | Learning resources | 7 | 1,450 | 2015-11-16, 3:40 am | ||
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Thread: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese Post: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese Just FYI, there are now some inexpensive Intel-based tablets that can dual boot android and windows. Don't have any personal experience with them though. |
zonius | Learning resources | 7 | 1,673 | 2015-11-07, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japanese] Post: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japane... Many words "just stick", especially when there's a clear logical connection to the component characters' meaning, so there's no need for special techniques. But for the others it'd be nice to use our ... |
zonius | Learning resources | 7 | 1,450 | 2015-11-07, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japanese] Post: Remembering the Words [Chinese and probably Japane... (These days there does not seem to be a Chinese subforum, so I'm not sure where to post this. In any case this probably is relevant for Japanese too to some degree) When memorizing the words that con... |
zonius | Learning resources | 7 | 1,450 | 2015-11-07, 12:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Try popup dictionary with RTH keywords Post: Try popup dictionary with RTH keywords Regarding the installation what worked for me was to turn on developer mode in the Extensions tab and then drag and drop the extension there. I could enter it in the Chrome Web store, I'm just not sur... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 3 | 2,147 | 2014-01-25, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: Try popup dictionary with RTH keywords Post: Try popup dictionary with RTH keywords This is something I've always wanted: a popup dictionary for the browser that will allow me to mouse over the words and see the corresponding RTH keywords. The problem was that existing browser extens... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 3 | 2,147 | 2014-01-21, 12:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Amazing source of sentences Post: Amazing source of sentences bflatnine Wrote:Anyone know of an app that will allow you to do this quickly, either in real time or close to it? There's a command line utility mp3splt (http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_p...nlo... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 30 | 14,733 | 2012-04-12, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: Any news when the second book will be published? Post: Any news when the second book will be published? aphasiac Wrote:Also the order in which you write the primitives is highly unusual. Check out the mnemonic in the Wikipedia entry, the ordering goes against everything previously learnt. I noticed a co... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,210 | 2012-02-17, 6:36 am | ||
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Thread: Any news when the second book will be published? Post: Any news when the second book will be published? Can anybody please explain, are they actually already shipping it? Or is it some sort of early preordering? I did pay anyway, I'm just wondering now if I should be holding my breath... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,210 | 2012-02-03, 4:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 characters and meanings Post: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 charac... leosmith Wrote:One of the main problems with heisig's is that he went to more complex keywords in order to distinguish characters with similar meanings. Yes, and I'm sure you remember why he does that... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 23 | 9,635 | 2010-08-04, 8:00 am | ||
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Thread: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 characters and meanings Post: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 charac... leosmith Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:Characters don't have "actual meanings", at least not ones that can represented by one word or phrase. Many do, or at least there's a word close enough for a good memory h... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 23 | 9,635 | 2010-08-03, 1:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 characters and meanings Post: Chinese Characters: Learn and Remember 2178 charac... deathtrap Wrote:I really like the fact that he uses the actual character meanings Really? How many characters does it list for "begin", "use" etc? deathtrap Wrote:instead of made up keywords. Very fe... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 23 | 9,635 | 2010-08-02, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Updating wiki with RTH/RSH info, what do you want to see included? Post: Updating wiki with RTH/RSH info, what do you want ... A small but nice thing would be if the title of the pages would stop saying "Learning Japanese" when in the Chinese forum :) . It's somewhat confusing to see it in bookmarks later - I always think tha... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 10 | 1,905 | 2010-07-23, 7:50 am | ||
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Thread: Harbaugh/zhongwen.com deck collaboration? Post: Harbaugh/zhongwen.com deck collaboration? I'm not sure I'd be able to sustain the effort but I'd like to try on something small. So, how can I participate? |
zonius | Group study | 87 | 36,138 | 2010-07-06, 5:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Any news when the second book will be published? Post: Any news when the second book will be published? ChristopherB Wrote:I've been informed that, unfortunately, Tim Richardson will meet up with James Heisig in JUNE 2010 to give the final push to book 2. Yep, about 6 months. And then presumably another... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,210 | 2010-07-06, 4:35 am | ||
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Thread: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional Post: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional Of course! There's also 平原 and other compounds, it's just that I've seen 原 used a lot in the newbies' postings as an example of "what the hell were they thinking, it does not mean that". |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 5 | 1,276 | 2010-06-15, 6:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional Post: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional Actually, the keywords are often a lot better than a casual reader may think! To be fair, it's not easy for a beginner to fully appreciate the real effort that went into the keyword selection (I know ... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 5 | 1,276 | 2010-06-13, 7:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional Post: Character Keywords in RTH simplified/traditional haveheart Wrote:this post is steaming with noob problems! Somewhat funny, but it seems that the only actual problem (as opposed to rumors you've heard and decisions you've made) mentioned in your post... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 5 | 1,276 | 2010-06-11, 7:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Sentence mining ZhongWen Red / Green / Blue Post: Sentence mining ZhongWen Red / Green / Blue haihao Wrote:Even better: There is third party tools for extracting exact those sentences. WLCP, We Love ChinesePod, WeePod and Seepod. http://www.seepod.net/ http://code.google.com/p/wlcp/ The pag... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 20 | 7,619 | 2010-04-02, 6:22 am | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread I had one pretty visual for 忄, although ended up not using it that much. So, the "standing heart"... you know the hospital IV stands? (Something like this or this) Imagine one of those, where instead... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,260 | 2010-02-23, 7:06 am | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread Wow, not much action in this thread... Remembering Hanzi must be easy :) Anyway, I'd like to ask for stories for 雜 (RTH, frame 1498), please! |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,260 | 2010-02-15, 8:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering Both Books Post: Remembering Both Books Oh, I see. That's probably a good approach - to learn only the irregular simplifications. But wouldn't there be a problem the set of primitives? I'd expect it to be slightly different from traditional... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 2 | 1,208 | 2010-02-10, 1:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering Both Books Post: Remembering Both Books Has anybody tried doing the other RTH/RSH book after finishing the first one? (Heisig and Richardson recommend to follow Traditional->Simplified order if you do) So, how did it go? What did you do ... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 2 | 1,208 | 2010-02-06, 7:52 am | ||
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Thread: Requesting all RTH stories Post: Requesting all RTH stories Don't know about the others, but I don't write down the stories. I try to jot down a note when I use some non-standard visualization (for example for 加 I imagine a "coffee machine"). But I don't write... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 4 | 1,454 | 2010-01-30, 7:04 am | ||
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Thread: One hanzi, one picture discussion Post: One hanzi, one picture discussion I'm curious: how do you find the pictures? I mean you can probably just google for some specific stuff, like "tomahawk" but how do you find pictures for more complex/abstract concepts? |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 13 | 7,882 | 2010-01-23, 7:23 am | ||
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Thread: Switching back to Mandarin. Post: Switching back to Mandarin. pm215 Wrote:If you're reading, you don't need to 'recall the character', it's right there on the page in front of you :-). Oh, but you do. Learning when reading works through repetition. You need to r... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 30 | 6,402 | 2010-01-04, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Switching back to Mandarin. Post: Switching back to Mandarin. Weird thread. mezbup Wrote:The thing with chinese is theres 6000 hanzi Gosh... When you pull a number out of thin air you should make it look more convincing. Say "5849 hanzi" does sound much more im... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 30 | 6,402 | 2010-01-03, 8:29 am | ||
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Thread: From a Plot to a Story? Post: From a Plot to a Story? OK, now that I've moved on to the "Elements" section it has started to make more sense. Having to invent the stories from scratch makes you much more aware of what is required of a story. (And now I a... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 4 | 1,063 | 2009-12-28, 5:08 pm | ||
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Thread: From a Plot to a Story? Post: From a Plot to a Story? Well... Let's take an example of descendants: Like most proverbs, "There is nothing new under the sun is not true all of the time. This character has us comparing family descendants under the sun. T... |
zonius | Chinese and Hanzi | 4 | 1,063 | 2009-12-24, 6:36 am | ||
