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    Thread: [Chinese] Remembering Simplified & Traditional Hanzi
Post: [Chinese] Remembering Simplified & Traditional Han...

Hi Fabrice! Wouldn’t it make sense to migrate *all* Hanzi stories, as suggested above, in particular for non-RtK characters? Georg
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 5 3,744 2015-02-20, 12:34 pm
    Thread: After RTH1/2
Post: After RTH1/2

My point is that pinyin also requires some learning first, so your time would be more wisely spent learning how to pronounce 牛 rather than “niu”, given that you already know what the character means. ...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 24 3,818 2012-04-02, 2:41 pm
    Thread: After RTH1/2
Post: After RTH1/2

bflatnine Wrote:What I'm doing is working very well for me. It’s obviously not what you did, because you’re written chinese is actually pretty good, according to your own words. I have heard from oth...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 24 3,818 2012-04-02, 12:03 pm
    Thread: After RTH1/2
Post: After RTH1/2

Bryos, as I said, it’s a trade-off, so go for it and let us know how long you can hold out without looking at the characters in the PAVC. I do like bflatnine’s idea for listening drills a lot, and I ...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 24 3,818 2012-04-02, 4:22 am
    Thread: After RTH1/2
Post: After RTH1/2

Your advice is based on the assumption that much more can be learned through listening than through reading and therefore it’s not worth bothering at an early stage. While you might have a point about...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 24 3,818 2012-04-01, 2:08 pm
    Thread: After RTH1/2
Post: After RTH1/2

Congratulations from my side as well! bflatnine Wrote:Only once you're fairly conversational should you go back and learn how to write everything you've been saying. Had you followed this method from...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 24 3,818 2012-03-31, 7:30 pm
    Thread: Anyone know a good dictionary for mac osx?
Post: Anyone know a good dictionary for mac osx?

http://www.alex-betty.com/pingguo-dictionary/ A free CEDICT plugin with both traditional and simplified.
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 16 7,211 2012-02-28, 9:54 am
    Thread: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?
Post: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?

nadiatims Wrote:how hard do you think it is to think up a consistent mnemonic for each reading? Your idea is nice, but I’m not convinced. I wouldn’t recommend learning the readings explicitly, you’d b...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 18 2,987 2010-03-08, 8:59 am
    Thread: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?
Post: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?

zer0range Wrote:You've got these tones wrong, 众 is zhong4 and 游 is you2. (ie. 观众, 旅游. Corrected, thanks. When I added the accents at 2 am I wasn’t all too attentive anymore. Nevertheless, tone mnemoni...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 18 2,987 2010-03-08, 7:55 am
    Thread: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?
Post: Is it a good idea to add readings for RSH?

Montrealer Wrote:It's amazing how much you can retain from passive exposure, and I'm sure a second pass through will show that it's easy to pick up the readings after having seen and heard them severa...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 18 2,987 2010-03-07, 7:55 pm
    Thread: Remembering Both Books
Post: Remembering Both Books

SRSing the entire RSH after RTH would clearly be a waste of time. I converted the list of traditionals from Book 1, then took only the irregular simplifications plus some regular examples and made the...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 2 1,208 2010-02-07, 9:50 am
    Thread: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List
Post: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List

bflatnine Wrote:The last word I heard (through Fu Dawei here) was that they had recently made a visit to the publishers to set the second book for printing. Hmm... Jarvik7 Wrote:Perhaps he meant secon...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 18 7,662 2009-10-20, 5:29 pm
    Thread: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List
Post: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List

mafried Wrote: gyuujuic Wrote:When is RTH2 coming out anyways? Later this year/early next year according to Heisig. Rather sometime next year then. Prof. Richardson told me in an email, that it was hi...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 18 7,662 2009-10-19, 3:38 pm
    Thread: How well does KanjiStrokeOrders font handle Trads?
Post: How well does KanjiStrokeOrders font handle Trads?

There are also differences between TC and SC, because Hanzi are traditionally written vertically and the PRC government adapted the stroke order for horizontal writing direction. The two standards ar...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 2 1,795 2009-06-22, 11:57 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

ファブリス Wrote:So what is the Kaisho equivalent in Chinese? Or did I miss something? Do you have links to example pictures? Kaisho/Kaishu 楷書 ("regular script") and Kaiti 楷體 ("regular style") are almost t...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2009-06-21, 1:57 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

Quote:Could you maybe give some examples? See above for the most severe examples I came across so far. Heisig deliberately chose some non-standard variants in order to be "compatible" with RtK and RSH...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2009-06-21, 11:01 am
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

ファブリス Wrote:Manually maintaining a collection of RTH-specific images is not a viable solution. That will be way too much trouble for little benefit. I agree. The few minor differences between the book...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2009-06-21, 9:06 am
    Thread: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK
Post: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK

oyatsuhakarldesu Wrote:Since I am ultimitely interested in the historical development of kanji, I need to study traditional hanzi as well as the simplified ones. The good thing about the Heisig method...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 53 43,436 2009-06-21, 7:28 am
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

Quote:The problem is that there is a significant amount of variations between Trad Chinese fonts. I've been using the Taiwan government's standardized character style, which is also used for Taiwanese...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2009-06-21, 2:59 am
    Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia
Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia

Would it be possible to repeat this exercise on the Chinese Wikipedia? The xml index, however, contains both traditional and simplified characters. You could analyse the html source for simplified (简...
transalpin General discussion 78 75,004 2009-06-05, 9:34 am
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

HerrPetersen Wrote:Does anyone know, when the second books are due? I asked Prof. Heisig and he says, book 2 “should be ready to give to the publishers by the end of the summer.“ Don’t hold your breat...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2009-02-28, 12:20 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

Quote:I'll have to figure out how to handle traditional and simplified (most likely a user setting). Fabrice, as argued previously, I recommend setting up two completely separate environments for Trad...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2008-10-31, 12:25 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

Character variants: The thing is, in Unicode, some characters are not encoded separately for TC, SC, J and K, even though more often than not their appearance is different in all four standards. Look ...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2008-10-31, 9:34 am
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

Quote:I am looking forward to make a chinese version of the site. […] But before that I want to finish the redesign I'm working on. This is great news. May I ask for when you estimate the revamp to go...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2008-10-31, 6:27 am
    Thread: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi
Post: Reviewing Traditional/Simplified Hanzi

J.W. Heisig’s new books are out and about (at last): * Remembering Traditional Hanzi, ISBN 978-0-8248-3324-4 * Remembering Simplified Hanzi, ISBN 978-0-8248-3323-7 There is a huge demand for a Hanzi ...
transalpin Chinese and Hanzi 57 35,611 2008-10-31, 3:58 am