For real, I've tried to learn Korean and Japanese, which use Chinese characters as a way to look fancy as fuck, and fuck me learning it was rough. Like memorizing the character and it's basic meaning is easy enough, Like "火" means fire because it looks like a campfire and "月" means Moon/Month (Chinese calendars are based off of the lunar cycle) since it's sorta shaped like a crescent moon, but start stringing that shit together? I'd need a premium healthcare plan and a Chinese tutor with a bat to beat some knowledge into my dummy head for that.
yeah I noticed that because I remembered being taught the fire symbol in Japanese with three of those hash marks and not just two of them, and I thought "huh, I guess that's what they meant by simplified Chinese"
As someone who studied Mandarin for four years in high school and is now independently studying it on my own the best way to memorize characters at first is just to use flashcards. I recommend you try out the AnkiDroid app if you have an Android phone which has several large decks for Chinese. Even Duolingo is very helpful for beginners to help you understand the basic characters. Once you learn a good base of some basic characters then you can try watching Chinese language content with subtitles on so that you can see how 汉字 are used in their native context
The Official Domino Chinese Level 1-20 Complete Vocabulary and Timo's All-In-One Chinese Anki Deck are the two decks I use. Both are extremely large and good enough by themselves with tens of thousands of cards. The first deck has a lot more slang phrases while the second one mostly sticks to the official HSK word list.
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I went through some of the speeches in one of his books, they were pretty interesting.
Kind of a slog to read translated political speeches in text.
Time to learn Chinese then lol.
For real, I've tried to learn Korean and Japanese, which use Chinese characters as a way to look fancy as fuck, and fuck me learning it was rough. Like memorizing the character and it's basic meaning is easy enough, Like "火" means fire because it looks like a campfire and "月" means Moon/Month (Chinese calendars are based off of the lunar cycle) since it's sorta shaped like a crescent moon, but start stringing that shit together? I'd need a premium healthcare plan and a Chinese tutor with a bat to beat some knowledge into my dummy head for that.
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yeah I noticed that because I remembered being taught the fire symbol in Japanese with three of those hash marks and not just two of them, and I thought "huh, I guess that's what they meant by simplified Chinese"
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As someone who studied Mandarin for four years in high school and is now independently studying it on my own the best way to memorize characters at first is just to use flashcards. I recommend you try out the AnkiDroid app if you have an Android phone which has several large decks for Chinese. Even Duolingo is very helpful for beginners to help you understand the basic characters. Once you learn a good base of some basic characters then you can try watching Chinese language content with subtitles on so that you can see how 汉字 are used in their native context
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The Official Domino Chinese Level 1-20 Complete Vocabulary and Timo's All-In-One Chinese Anki Deck are the two decks I use. Both are extremely large and good enough by themselves with tens of thousands of cards. The first deck has a lot more slang phrases while the second one mostly sticks to the official HSK word list.
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