Learning 481 Chinese Characters in One Week

I’m finding my groove using Heisig’s book. I originally planned on learning 30 characters per day. I found that it’s more efficient for me to focus on 2 lessons per day.

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Slow Chinese Podcast Deconstruction

I’ve been going through each episode of the slow Chinese podcast sentence by sentence. The above image is taken from the first episode of the podcast. I highlighted the characters that I knew beforehand. Even without a concentrated effort to learn the characters, I understand 56% of them.

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The Chinese Diaries: Part II

I am a visual and hands-on type of learner, so the Chinese diary has been a very powerful learning tool for me.

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