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    Thread: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese
Post: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese

bflatnine Wrote:Unfadeable, are you at a school in Taiwan? I am indeed! And an avid reader of your blog, btw. I think I've commented there a few times as "Matt," although now I get the direct inbox ...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 16 4,936 2012-03-03, 10:01 am
    Thread: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese
Post: Practical Audio-Visual Chinese

Would anyone be interested in working together to attach audio files to these sentences? I lack bflatnine's scruples and have no qualms about sharing the audio files, but perhaps it would be prudent ...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 16 4,936 2012-03-03, 9:23 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

Awesome work, thanks everyone. And thanks Aphasiac for setting up the deck. Now the hard part begins...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-02-26, 10:39 pm
    Thread: How to speak Mandarin
Post: How to speak Mandarin

There's a lot of good articles on the process of learning chinese at http://www.hackingchinese.com If I was doing it all over again I would do it this way: 1. Burn through RTH 1&2 (traditional de...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 8 3,762 2012-02-26, 3:49 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

I input 200 characters or so and finished typing up the keywords. We should be there soon guys, 加油! Also I did the google-translate thing for pinyin and noticed a few errors but I think it's the bes...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-02-25, 5:37 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

aphasiac Wrote:As for the actual Anki deck; you can currently download the spreadsheet as a CSV, and import into Anki however you like. Once the spreadsheet is complete I will add it all to the RTH1 d...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-02-24, 5:39 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

Just got mine in Taiwan today too! Have a final tomorrow but ready to start working on this over the weekend. I pm'd you, Aphasiac. As for input of characters with unknown pinyin, wouldn't it be be...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-02-23, 3:50 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

Mine is on its way too, hopefully it won't take too much longer to ship to Taiwan. I also cross-posted the collaborative anki deck idea on Chinese Forums: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?...p...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-02-13, 10:16 pm
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

I'll be preordering mine tomorrow. Perhaps we could split the work of compiling an Anki deck among volunteers? I'd be up for it. Never coordinated something like that before, perhaps someone else h...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2012-01-31, 1:14 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

bflatnine Wrote:I saw a stack of them at the eslite flagship store on Songgao road in Xinyi district a few months ago. It's also available on books.com.tw. It's expensive though, right at US$40 (N...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2011-12-15, 8:38 pm
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

Does anyone know if the Heisig books are sold anywhere in Taipei? I was in Page One at 101 recently and didn't see any. Be great to buy in country instead of having to pay high shipping fees on amaz...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2011-12-15, 5:19 am
    Thread: Ankimobile. Now with BLING!
Post: Ankimobile. Now with BLING!

Hi all, I'm trying to install a nicer Chinese font on my jailbroken iphone 3g using these instructions, but haven't been successful. I'm at the end of my rope here and have no idea what I'm doing wr...
Unfadeable Learning resources 49 25,726 2011-10-19, 10:36 am
    Thread: Simplification Tables for Remembering the Hanzi
Post: Simplification Tables for Remembering the Hanzi

Epic post gdaxeman, thanks so much for corralling all this info. I've looked into all the links you posted; they make for a great start. The problem, as you noted, is the "exceptions," which can be ...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 6 3,708 2011-09-19, 3:55 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

So last night I emailed the publisher, thinking it would be in their hands now, and Heisig himself wrote back to me--what a guy. Here's the reply: "A few minutes ago I received an e-mail from Tim Ri...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2011-09-19, 3:32 am
    Thread: Any news when the second book will be published?
Post: Any news when the second book will be published?

vorpal Wrote:I couldn't wait any longer for an update and e-mailed him. Here's his reply. (He's such a nice guy. We're really very lucky to have someone like him authoring these books for us, IMO.) ...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 110 32,221 2011-09-18, 3:25 am
    Thread: Simplification Tables for Remembering the Hanzi
Post: Simplification Tables for Remembering the Hanzi

This is hugely helpful, thanks much. I had a look around but couldn't seem to find much on strategies from going from simplified to traditional (or viceversa) using Heisig's method. Anyone have any ...
Unfadeable Chinese and Hanzi 6 3,708 2011-09-06, 8:51 am