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Sentence Mining: An Ess...

Share I posted a brief introduction to sentence mining before in my post about flashcards, and now here is the full explanation. Sentence mining is the ultimate discovery in language learning; it’s better than sliced bread.  Sentence mining is what makes me confident that I can...
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The Road to Native

Share It’s said that becoming native in another language is impossible after a certain age.  After 4 years in China I get the feeling that becoming truly native might just take a lifetime, but getting really close and nearly indistinguishable is a possibility. I’ve been...
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Use Flashcards! The Ins and Outs of Flashcard use in language learning (Chinese, Japanese focus)

Use Flashcards! The In...

Share Language learning is exposure and review, input and output.  Input helps you learn, while output solidifies the knowledge, among other things.  One problem is that our mind forgets things that we learn very quickly until the information has been moved into our long-term memory....
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The Language Learning Formula

The Language Learning F...

Share Language Learned = Time x Conscious learning x Exposure + Time x Exposure/10 – (Time plus 1) / Review In other words, language learned = Purposeful learning + Natural Acquisition – Memory Loss In mathematical terms: LL = T*CL*E + TE/10 – (T+1)/R *This is not a...
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Don’t Learn to Write Chinese Characters

Don’t Learn to Write Ch...

Share Not learning to write Chinese characters may sound like blasphemy, but in my experience learning to write them has been close to useless and probably the biggest waste of time ever. Chinese characters are complicated.  They are pictures that represent sounds and meaning.  You...
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Guide to Chinese Project Announcement

Guide to Chinese Projec...

Share I’ve added a new page called the “Guide to Chinese“.  In previous posts I’ve mentioned wanting to create a guide similar to Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese, and I’ve finally started working on it.   I’ve searched long and hard for a really...
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