Studying, how to split/spend the time?
ouyangjun116
February 23, 2011, 12:27 PM posted in General DiscussionI'm curious as to how everyone goes about their studying efforts. I'm looking to see what has worked for everyone on here and maybe borrow some techiniques. My goal is to pass the old HSK level 7 by October or so of this year. I keep a daily record of all of my studying, it more or less pans out this way:
Per day:
30-40 minutes - New vocab, vocab review, character review
30 minutes - excercises in my Chinese book (Boya Chinese aimed at level 5,6 on the old HSK exam)
2 ChinesePod podcasts for listening comprehension
10 minutes of reading chinese text/novel
If you have passed the HSK to these levels, and it looks like I'm falling way short on something... let me know. I'm concerned I'm not reading enough Chinese text. I heard fast reading of characters is key to the higher levels of HSK.
Purrfecdizzo
February 23, 2011, 04:32 PMYour are way farther than me, so I know that my response will probably be useless to you except maybe for entertainment purposes.. ha ha ... Anyhow, it is good to see that you describe your studying habits, I used to do that on this site, but I don't give such details anymore. I will simply say, in a general way, that I spend about an hour using Chinesepod podcasts, and I spend an hour using a different resource that helps me learn Chinese characters. Anyhow, good luck on the preperations.