Closing Down Beyond Bounds
Share As you may have noticed, post count has dropped off quite a bit this month. It’s become harder and harder for me to stay motivated to write on this blog. I’ve known that this day would come one day, and now it’s finally here. This is goodbye. Beyond Bounds started as an experiment for me. I didn’t know anything about blogging. Really, I didn’t know very much about how the internet really works, besides some basic HTML that I learned in high school. I used...
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....
Hanging out in China
Share Chinese people don’t hang out. There is no word for “hang out” in Chinese, instead there are just the all encompassing “meet”(见) and “play”(玩). When people in China meet other people, they usually do so through an activity....
Western Holidays + Birt...
Share Most people in China do not celebrate any western holidays. China has its own long list of important holidays and when it comes to western holidays, not really much goes on for most people. The younger generations enjoy celebrating western holidays, although still most...
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...
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...
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...
Don’t Forget to Live
Share Life is amazing, no matter what you do. Your attitude determines whether you enjoy life or not, and you can control your attitude. You may be in a cubicle translating a thousand lines of ancient Chinese text into English everyday, but it’s up to you whether it’s an...
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