skritter and radicals

bababardwan
 January 19, 2010, 09:36 PM posted in General Discussion

I love skritter and embraced it when it first married up with CPod.However,I must admit,like all new toys I ended up neglecting it after a while.I think the main reason for this was because my writing level[newbie] was and still is completely out of sync with my listening level [roughly intermediate] and so I didn't use skritter on the lessons I was studying as I went.What I think I need to do is organise my vocab tab well and try and catch up from there.I was using it yesterday and rediscovering how cool it is all over again.The thing I find missing though ,for me,is having a radical set.This year I'd really love to nail the radicals and I think if I  could learn these it would really help learning to write and using skritter both easier and more enjoyable.After all the radicals are the first building blocks.Sorry if this is already possible,but how about we have the 214 radicals made into a set and available to use in our vocab tab both for flashcards and for skritter?

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mark
 January 19, 2010, 10:11 PM

I have been trying to create decompositions of all of the characters that are used in the HSK.  I'm not done, yet, but I might have done enough to be useful to someone who is just getting a feel for writing (about 1800 characters, so far).  http://huamake.com/web2_0.htm  [I suggest using a late model browser, because the javascript on the page expects a standard DOM implementation and this seems to crash some earlier IE versions, and I haven't managed to find a work around, yet.]

Anyway, if you do try it, I would be interested to know if it helps.

I am basically just sharing my study notes for the written aspects of the HSK.  You probably should start with the "A" list.

 

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bababardwan

thanks mark.I'll check that out when I get home.Sounds great.I love checking out the decomposition of characters.I recently rediscovered yellowbridge as a good source of decomposition giving the etymology as well as pointing out which part is the radical and which is phonetic.I'd love to go about this from the reverse angle too though.That is nailing the radicals so that when I strike a new character I immediately have some hint as to what the character might be about and a jump start on the deconstruction.To this end I have downloaded a radical set for anki but for some reason anki hasn't scheduled me to go through them yet so I'll have to look into that.But I'd love to learn the radicals through skritter preferentially.

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bababardwan
 January 19, 2010, 11:21 PM

thanks mark.I'll check that out when I get home.Sounds great.I love checking out the decomposition of characters.I recently rediscovered yellowbridge as a good source of decomposition giving the etymology as well as pointing out which part is the radical and which is phonetic.I'd love to go about this from the reverse angle too though.That is nailing the radicals so that when I strike a new character I immediately have some hint as to what the character might be about and a jump start on the deconstruction.To this end I have downloaded a radical set for anki but for some reason anki hasn't scheduled me to go through them yet so I'll have to look into that.But I'd love to learn the radicals through skritter preferentially.