01 year 04 week into study
Purrfecdizzo
December 20, 2008, 04:27 AM posted in General DiscussionWhat a frustrating few days. My computer is acting weird, specifically, it takes forever for the words that I type to show up. This will be a short update. I have flashcards for about 322 terms, acquisition on about 285 or so, and proficiency on about 190. I did only a few podcast lessons. this is too frustrating, I guess this is it for now.
excuter
December 20, 2008, 02:37 PMI would advise that you browse the lesson archive and choose 5 or 10 lessons you realy have interest in. You should take one per day first and listen to it in the morning , after lunch and in the evening. After you listend to all, you should listen to one in the morning, one after lunch and another one in the evening.If you feel you memorised them enough, you browse the archive again and add new lessons of interest to the routine.
With such a routine you get the words in your longtime memory and it´s realy important that you have interest in what is talked about, otherwise it´s harder to get it down...learning should be fun and interesting! ^_^
Ps: if you tryed it for a while please let me know how it works for you :-)
Purrfecdizzo
December 20, 2008, 05:55 AMThe typing seems to be working normal now. There was something I wanted to talk about, but the slow typing problem made it so that I didnt want to bother, but I will now. I am finding that my character learning is going much faster than my speaking and understanding verbal language. Has anyone else experienced this? Might this prove to be a problem down the road? Right now, it seems to be an advantage as I am finding that I can read some of the dialogues that I encounter.
The verbal work is progressing, but it is much slower. It requires so much effort for memorization, and I have difficulties retaining it. Elsewhere, it has been suggested that I meet with others that are learning the language, but I know of no such people in my area. I know one Chinese person, but he is unapproachable.
I am okay with the unbalance right now, that is knowing about 280 or so characters, but knowing about 50 spoken words. My China move is still far off, so I have time to pick up more verbal words. Heck, if worse comes to worse, I can just read Chinese newspapers and write in Chinese, instead of speaking.
I am about a month into my studies, and I know tons more than I did when I first started (which was nothing).