Me too lol hahahahah 😂 to

Same😂. I have been self-study for two weeks. Now I know how to write 0-10, I, you, he, she, it, sorry, hello.

I still can't even write that one... I can type it though! 我 God bless whoever invented the mobile pinyin keyboard...

Yo. Forreal. This hit home 😂

I can write those letters with stroke order: 鷹 愛 人 我 馬 國 中 他 是 你 好 But they all look ugly when I write them :^

why don't you write up a small summary? i don't really wish to watch you 44:00 for information which I could learn by reading in probably about 5 minutes.

@@QuizmasterLaw Actually the presentation is quite dense with information. You can't really learn all of it in 5 minutes. Also by watching it you'll practice learning some characters and you'll see that it actually works, and reading a summary won't do that for you.

are there any optimal settings in terms of how you use anki?How many repetitions for new cards, etc? What is the reason behind showing the word first? Am I supposed to just try picture the character in my mind after being prompted with the word?

I didn't change the defaults in Anki for the interval of repetitions. The reason for showing the word first is that experience shows that it works both for recognition and for production, however showing the character first works for recognition, but you'll have a hard time producing the character from memory if you are not used to doing the step keyword->story->character. You can just picture the character in your mind as long as you make sure you go through every primitive every time. If you find yourself slacking off or would like to get practice to be able to write the characters fluently I recommend you write it down once, or use the whiteboard function in Anki on your phone.

Is there a site like Kanji Koohi also for Chinese Characters. I find it difficult to think about a story thousands of characters. How can i think of thousands of stories within such a short time?

I agree with you, i'm learning chinese by two months and i prefer to use the method you mentioned

Not to mention, using story and mnemonic is actually make the work doubled. Better using spaced repetition system ;)

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To me the best method is writing not the individual characters but entire pages. Just find reading material online and copy it to your notebook with your hand. You'll learn writing reading and pronunciation at the same time without having to remember extra stories

Then the book you want is "2000 Kanji" by Father De Roo. The mnemonics are all based on the original meanings of the characters which he researched.

4000 characters? Wow. I learned traditional Chinese for 8 years and never even realized it’s 4000 characters that’s the goal towards the end!

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

@@its_lucky252 why do people keep asking this instead of doing a quick Google search 笨蛋

@@its_lucky252 this is quite late, but we use pinyin! it's essentially the "romanized" version of chinese, mimicking how it would sound in english.

@@kanzouu ok thanks

And it's always better to look up the correct way to write them, because truth is, it's easier to write when u see the correct way, and you're less likely to forget that character

so, it's been a year. How's it going?

​@@PyroNexus22 For me, I haven't progressed

Sorry to interrupt this space. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Each Chinese character pronounces one syllable, and each character has meanings. Chinese primary school pupils can easily learn 3000 characters, which cover 99 percent of Chinese characters in newspapers and books. Chinese is 30% faster than English in conveying information.

Can I ask you something? How much words do I need to master in order to read web novels casually?

@@phucanhtran1980 same goal same question:D

@@phucanhtran1980 i rode few days ago that a scientist or a university professor knows about 20'000 characters, but you can understand pretty well everything around you with "only" 2000 characters, for example, an avarage 6 years old chinese kid knows 200 of them

I also have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

@@NowhereBeats ok thank you

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How to start or where I can find Chinese characters to learn?, please.

Why'd you need to write them?

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@@dr.gaosclassroom Thank you! It's super useful.

There's a KZfaq channel called blueprint Chinese I guess , they put a video in which they explained how to use a mixture between the Marilyn method ( used to remember the prononciation) and the hs method to memorize the characters, they have a website in which they teach Chinese however it's not free so I haven't really fully explored it yet

probably because they never had a point. there are hundreds of videos of people using anki and the heisig method on youtube.

So i shouldnt watch this if i just started like 6months ago

You can easily learn to speak chinese and be illiterate in the language. They are all different skills and ive meet multiple people (non-chinese) who have used this method and recommend it as well.

I'm studying Mandarin now, and I've studied Japanese around 7 years ago. I've studied kanji the heisig method back then, and it works to learn lots of characters, however it's a wasted effort because you don't know how to read words which is what matters the most. Learn words, you'll also learn he characters they're made of. Right now I don't remember much of Japanese because I used that method to learn around 400 characters but then I quit studying and left the actual language learning behind. The only useful skill I got from that is that I can easily write any new character after shortly looking at it due to my mind breaking it down into radicals.

I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many hours studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.

Pleco?

What is ANKI?

@@jennyleesiewmee7664 ankiweb.net/ - it's an open source flashcard app where you can customize your own flashcards. Pleco (www.pleco.com/) is a dictionary/OCR Reader/Flashcard app specifically for Chinese

he used Kanji

@@jufertdin3035 In other words, the English translations are form the Japanese, not the Chinese

There are no alphabets for Chinese. It's a characters based language... you need to learn each single character separately. There are over 10000 characters but you only need to know about 4 to 5000 to be fluent.

Sorry to interrupt this space. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Each Chinese character pronounces one syllable, and each character has meanings. Chinese primary school pupils can easily learn 3000 characters, which cover 99 percent of Chinese characters in newspapers and books. Chinese is 30% faster than English in conveying information.

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Lol. So true

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

之所以汉字学习要’"音","形","义"三位一体学习‘，就是因为中文汉字发音和书写没有太大关系，所以才要一起学。"形声字"属于基础汉字衍生部分，非常好掌握，前提是对基础的形旁声旁有了解，而这些形旁声旁本身就是“中文汉字发音和书写没有太大关系”例证

Not necessarily, depends a lot on how interested you are when you learn something.

Thank you.. All the parts of characters represent something but many characters are so complex that it's more effort than memorizing the character's strokes and pronunciation lol. There's a reason why Chinese is so hard to learn and it's because it requires a lot of time. Plain and simple. Learning 2000 characters in 50 days is rubbish

@@daniel28527 You can breeze through hsk1/2 and learn a few hundred characters. The introductory chinese stuff is simple. 2000 might be a bit high, but several hundred in a few weeks is definitely doable.

*pinyin :P

The slides are there just as a visual support, so don't expect to understand them without watching the talk. That said, here you have them: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-VmTms4ATNQAWvUn4iU6-pajQDqnPsqhhRIUkNU2VIg/edit?usp=sharing

I thought 上 was high, utmost, senior

太陽呢?

And Gou is dog not this symbol am I missing something

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

@@its_lucky252 You can write in pinyin。woaini becomes 我爱你。 taiguile becomes 太贵了。There are input systems as well. You can input the strokes in order and the software can narrow down the potential choices to the word you want. trying adding a chinese keyboard to your computer or phone to check it out.

are you a male? How is it going?

It's " goods" not good. In English, " goods" means " wares", things that are sold.

品 it's the Japanese meaning, goods are things, not literal "good"

When I initially learned them I learned them for Japanese. The method works for both Japanese and Chinese.

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@@jancovanderwesthuizen8070 I'm learning with the Chinese book. It's really useful. I'm still in the beginning heading to the first 200 characters.

Chinese has two words for dog. Quan is the character at 13:54 It means big bad dog, war dog, not a familiar animal Gou in contrast is familiar. So small doggos are gou but german shephards are quan for example.

one of the problems of Heisig is he approaches Hanzi through Japanese. And then adds his own distortions on top of that. Inaccuracies inevitably result.

Totally agree. Mumbleese at its worst

Ann Onymous Heisig has been phenomenal for me.

Huxter either way yeah. I'm kinda sceptical that these characters so rapidly remember actually remain in his long term memory. You know how using memory palaces you can remember 50 cards in any given order right. But how long will you retain that cheap bar trick?

@@QuizmasterLaw I thought the same way months ago and it's too bad I didn't do further research; it actually works & it's useful -- but only if you use a spaced repetition after you use a mnemonic to remember the character for roughly a week. The reason why you use the mnemonic is so you can recall the character using the short term memory. It may take you 2 or even three minutes to recall a character but that is a good thing. You remember things much longer from output, not input (this is why people say write your notes in your own words after the lecture). So if you spend 5 minutes recalling a character (you may have never been able to recall it without the help of mnemonics), your brain is more likely to store that memory in your long term memory since it thinks it's important and doesn't want to waste energy and time remembering it again. If you flip the card in Anki without taking the time to recall the character, your brain will think there is no need to store the memory in the long term memory because it's easily accessible. This is why most gen-z like me have a hard time remembering time tables because we usually always have access to a calculator. A great example of a way you got to utilize mnemonic and spaced repetition is by learning your ABC's. There were pictures that act as the mnemonic and you were making small words which is the practiced repetition. You rarely came across the letter X but when you did, it was easy to recall because you had a mnemonic (which usually lasts for a week) and it becomes ingrained in your memory because you used it periodically rather than never. Imagine if you had no mnemonics to recall the Chinese character.

@@3hornthrasher815 I'm around hsk5. I don't regard this method of mass memorization out of context as any way to effectively build vocabulary and am a polyglot.

@@QuizmasterLaw i don’t think it’s meant to be a way to learn vocabulary right? In the video he said it’s a way to learn characters, then after that proceed with normal learning, only with a lot of characters now already familiar to you.

@@RyanPhung 3000 characters in 5 months is entirely unrealistic. 1000 is possible.