Comments on: Analyse and balance your Chinese learning with Paul Nation’s four strands https://www.hackingchinese.com/analyse-and-balance-your-chinese-learning-with-paul-nations-four-strands/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/analyse-and-balance-your-chinese-learning-with-paul-nations-four-strands/#comment-123560 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:19:32 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=15960#comment-123560 In reply to 田毅.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea! I would talk all numbers mentioned in these contexts with a pinch of salt. It’s also highly individual in that if you are motivated enough, you can tolerate a higher percentage of unknown words without getting frustrated. Much of the research this is based on is about classroom learning for “normal” students, not highly motivated adults who go online to look for advice on how to learn. If you are a demotivated teenager who was forced to read this article, disregard my comment. 😛

]]> By: 田毅 https://www.hackingchinese.com/analyse-and-balance-your-chinese-learning-with-paul-nations-four-strands/#comment-123555 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:11:06 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=15960#comment-123555 This was an excellent read. thank you for fully explaining this method. It definitely seems like you need all four of these activities in some proportion to achieve fluency in a reasonable amount of time. However I personally am a bit skeptical about clearing such high bars for meaning-focused activities without already achieving a high level of fluency. I’m going to personally interpret this method as all four activities being valuable but sort of testing the waters in each field as I go along to see which kinds of activities seem to yield the highest efficiency of progress over time and build that intuition of which of the four activities is having the biggest effect at a given time.

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