Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Change of course?


Hi, this is Ahmad, well because of some obligations I had, I am very much behind schedule. Actually it seems that the challenge is quite overwhelming. However if I am totally free, I think I can hit the 40 Kanji target.

What do you suggest everybody to modify the challenge, any ideas?

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  1. Make the challenge more difficult. That is my suggestion.

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  2. Keith, how many kanji have you finished so far?

    I suggest that we extend the challenge to 2 more months.

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  3. just keep on doing something every day. When i had trouble, i tried changing my sounces of characters and my methods a bit. keep it non-boring. just keep it moving.

    http://languagefixation.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/kanji-without-heisig/

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  4. I tend to agree, it's a very good idea, like if you want to learn how a car works make one haha, well it doesn't have to be that difficult, but in languages it sounds like a good feasible idea.

    But let me expand on it a bit, let's say I want to study Chinese, so I find an interesting book that I want to read in Chinese, then start decoding each sentence from scratch, and thus learning kanji and grammar along the way.

    But this will mean that I may learn complex rules and characters before the more simple ones, well that method needs some thinking.

    Perhaps we can come up with a hybrid system, like whenever I encounter a new sentence structure or a new complex character I may also study the simpler ones leading to it.

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  5. Hey Ahmad, you should use Skype more often. I never see you on Skype. I'm always on Skype, you know.

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