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.
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.
How I Learned to Love Chinese Study
Before I began my journey to learn how to speak Chinese, I wondered what challenge awaited me. I wondered why people keep saying that Chinese is hard. Between 12 verb tenses, a myriad of inconsistent rules of spelling and pronunciation, and some seriously funky grammatical rules, English would seem to be the harder of the two to learn.
