Celebrating St Patrick’s Day? Then let’s get you ready to join the fun by teaching you how to say cheers in the 11 different languages our app offers. A bit…
Chinese New Year greetings are part and parcel of one of the most recognized holidays in the world. And there’s nothing better than knowing a few Chinese New Year sayings…
Hi! If you're seeing this, you've probably purchased my Chinese (Mandarin) Pronunciation Trainer (if not, you can get it at the store). I'm going to be using this page to…
Japanese has been my pet project for nearly 2 years. Those of you who have been following the blog closely have seen me update my model flashcard decks, add new plugins, make new video walkthroughs, update my model decks again, and so on. Over the course of trial-and-erroring my way through the language, I now have a clear-cut plan for future learners of Japanese and Chinese.
In this post, I’m going to lay that out for you, so you don’t need to try and piece it together through nearly 2 years of blog posts:
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Back at the end of February, I posted my Japanese Radical Deck. That was meant to help Japanese students build a framework so that they could actually remember Japanese kanji. In the comments thread, there was a fair bit of discussion as to how to modify that deck to make it work for Mandarin or Cantonese.
In the meantime, a reader, Peter Membrey, contacted us and asked if he could commission something related to Cantonese. We found someone who could modify our Japanese deck for Cantonese and Mandarin, and poof! We now have 3 new, fancy radical decks: (more…)
How to modify my methods for Chinese and Japanese Both of those languages use logograms (characters that represent meaning, rather than sound). This introduces a new challenge to the language…
Learn Mandarin Chinese with these resourcesTo learn Mandarin Chinese, you’re going need a way to learn correct pronunciation, a frequency dictionary to form your base vocabulary, and a good grammar…
I keep addressing this question in various forum/comment discussions, but I should discuss it here, because it addresses a lot of issues in a lot of languages. The question is:How…
