Remembering the Hanzi: Take it to the Next Level
I wish that I had started Remembering the Hanzi when I first started this challenge. I was going to learn 30 characters per day, but I’m getting through 30 in just 10 minutes.
Remembering the Hanzi: Update
I mentioned that I’m also doing memory training. The concepts in the memory training program and in Remembering the Hanzi are very similar because they encourage the use of vivid imagery to engage the mind. Our minds tend to think in pictures. I can really appreciate Heisig’s techniques. Onward!
Blogging 31 Days Straight: Day 31
This is the 31st post in my January challenge. I posted to this blog everyday for the month of January. I wanted to do at least one thing everyday for a month every month of 2010. The month of February ends my 90 day Chinese challenge, but my Chinese study will continue throughout the year.
Memory Training:Day 4
The mind cannot tell the difference between a real event and an imaginary one. Guess that explains why horror movies, as fiction and harmless as they are, can scare the crap out of us.
Memory Training: Day 3
Today I continued completed the 3rd lesson in the audio-book Memory in a Month by Ron White?. Last time, White challenged the listener to memorize a list of 20 items by using number associations. In today’s lesson, he challenges the reader to remember 19 items by visualizing a story involving a German Shepherd riding down the mountain on a bicycle.
