Last month’s challenge on Hacking Chinese Challenges was about sensible character learning, an area I had neglected for months. It was meant as an...
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Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #1
We have now reached the first milestone in the sensible character learning challenge 2014! What does this mean? That depends on whether or not...
Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #2
This post marks the second milestone in the sensible character learning challenge 2014, which means that we are roughly halfway! Just like last...
Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #3
One of the most powerful ways of staying motivated is doing things with others, preferably during a limited amount of time with a clear goal. That...
Sensible character learning challenge 2014: The Big Finish
When I launched this year’s sensible character challenge, some people told me that I was over-ambitious, I would never be able to keep people...
Sensible character learning: Progress, reminders and reflections
Two weeks have now passed since I announced the sensible character learning challenge. Since I wanted to try the rules of the challenge myself...
Sensible Chinese character learning challenge 2014
Want to improve the way you learn characters? Want to feel the power of learning with others? It’s time for. …the 2014 sensible Chinese character...
Sensible Chinese character learning revisited
More than a year has passed since the first sensible character learning challenge started on the first day of 2013 where more than a hundred...
Shapeshifting Chinese characters
Most Chinese character components are well-behaved; they look the same in different compounds and aren’t hard to recognise. Some components are...
Chinese listening strategies: Passive listening
Most people agree that quantity is very important for improving listening ability (immersion, in other words). The previous article in this series...