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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread Anyone want to share their story for 幹 Always get stuck on this one. |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2010-06-08, 3:30 am | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread Thanks for the responses, guys! That's a huge help. One character I repeatedly get tripped up on is 察 "scrutinize" made up of house and offer sacrifice. Any one got a good story for that? diephysike... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2010-04-28, 3:08 am | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread Anyone got a decent story for "relatives" - 親 - made up of pepper plant and see. |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2010-04-27, 7:00 am | ||
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Thread: How would you recommend starting Chinese? Post: How would you recommend starting Chinese? deathtrap Wrote:Go buy Remember Simplified Hanzi or Remembering Traditional Hanzi. This will help you learn and memorize the characters immensely. Start doing 20 or however many you want per day, just... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 55 | 19,359 | 2010-04-01, 8:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Combining RTH with Sentences? Post: Combining RTH with Sentences? Montrealer Wrote:Does anyone know of better source material? The John DeFrancis readers. |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 8 | 2,387 | 2010-03-24, 11:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread Anyone got a story for 表 meaning surface and made up of grow up and scarf? And 標, mark made up of tree and ticket. |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2010-03-24, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread I personally used Richard Simmons for 人. Made for some interesting stories... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2010-03-06, 3:18 am | ||
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Thread: Requesting all RTH stories Post: Requesting all RTH stories Yeah I'm the same. I go through the book, make mental notes and then SRS them. If I forget the writing, it's usually no problem at all to retrace the story you've made. If not, then it was obviously a... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 4 | 1,454 | 2010-02-05, 9:29 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? I think really the best thing to do, instead of waiting, would be to use Rick Harbaugh's dictionary, also online as http://www.zhongwen.com. There are about 2750 characters that aren't covered in book... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,221 | 2010-01-31, 4:43 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? 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 month or so until ... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,221 | 2010-01-27, 12:35 am | ||
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Thread: Hanzi stories request thread Post: Hanzi stories request thread This is basically a thread where those working through James Heisig's Remembering Hanzi series can request stories for characters they get particularly stuck on. These can be requests either for other... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 39 | 10,266 | 2009-11-26, 4:31 am | ||
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Thread: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List Post: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List Thanks for pointing out 別. It's annoying, because Wenlin lists 别 and 没 as also being the simplified forms. I hope there aren't too many like that in RTH... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 18 | 7,662 | 2009-11-12, 9:51 pm | ||
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Thread: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List Post: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List Strangely, Heisig lists the traditional form of "not have" as 没, while the traditional form listed in a dictionary appears to be 沒. Is this just a typo? |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 18 | 7,662 | 2009-11-12, 2:13 am | ||
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Thread: Speaking Japanese in Japan Post: Speaking Japanese in Japan How good was his Vietnamese though? |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 56 | 9,997 | 2009-09-05, 1:04 am | ||
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Thread: Speaking Japanese in Japan Post: Speaking Japanese in Japan Yeah, that's a common tactic when encountering this problem. Just be all "dude I only speak Kalallisut". |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 56 | 9,997 | 2009-09-04, 10:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Speaking Japanese in Japan Post: Speaking Japanese in Japan Just stumbled across a video on YouTube, where a guy living in Japan says that a lot of Japanese have little interest in hearing you speak Japanese or speaking it with you, since many of them have stu... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 56 | 9,997 | 2009-09-04, 10:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Worth doing RSH after RTH? Post: Worth doing RSH after RTH? HerrPetersen Wrote:Also after learning traditional hanzi, you can not automatically write simplified. Exactly, so how do you learn to write them? I can imagine reading is fairly easy, using texts you'... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 11 | 2,403 | 2009-08-30, 12:31 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? From an e-mail I sent him the other day: "Tim Richardson was here in Japan for 3 hard weeks of work last month and we made considerable progress. But the selection of the characters and the arrangeme... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 110 | 32,221 | 2009-08-27, 4:42 am | ||
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Thread: Worth doing RSH after RTH? Post: Worth doing RSH after RTH? For someone such as myself working on traditional characters exclusively at the moment, do you think it would be wise to take up Remembering Simplified Hanzi after completing Remebering Traditional Ha... |
ChristopherB | Chinese and Hanzi | 11 | 2,403 | 2009-08-27, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters I don't know much yet, as my Chinese studies are basically exclusively focused on recognizing and writing the characters. This is convenient, because I'm also trying to maintain and improve a number o... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-10, 5:29 am | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters HerrPetersen Wrote:Just curious: You do not use Heisig right? What does the Cracking the Chinese Puzzles book recommend on reviewing stuff/what keywords are provided? I'm using the abridged version, w... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-07, 11:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Well that pretty much clears that up. Thanks for the answers. Guess I'll have to go through my cards and cut down the keywords to make it less confusing. |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-07, 7:37 am | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Another tricky one is 著 which has so many meanings, I have no clue which to use as the core keyword. I might try using the reading to differentiate between them, but if one thing's for certain, a sing... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-07, 2:57 am | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters 于 was the character expression interrogation, but you could also say the same for 嗎, couldn't you? |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-07, 2:34 am | ||
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Thread: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters Post: Keywords for obscure grammatical characters This relates more to Chinese than Japanese, I think: I have come across several characters for Chinese (I'm using a book called Cracking the Chinese Puzzles to get my hanzi) and some such as 于 have me... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 14 | 2,048 | 2009-03-07, 1:56 am | ||
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Thread: Longterm use of SRS Post: Longterm use of SRS I've posted this question in a couple of other forums, but haven't got any answers yet, so I thought I'd try my luck here. I'm basically just curious to know how many of you have over 20,000 cards. H... |
ChristopherB | General discussion | 30 | 5,242 | 2009-03-06, 8:28 am | ||