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By: Habit hacking for language learners | Hacking Chinese

Habit hacking for language learners | Hacking Chinese — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:52:59 +0000

[…] Diversifying your learning unlocks time slots that aren’t available if you think of studying in te…. By spending just five minutes a few times throughout the day, like while waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for a colleague, or stuck in traffic, you can easily stay on top of vocabulary reviews without needing to set aside large blocks of time. […]

By: How to learn Chinese characters: My best advice | Hacking Chinese

How to learn Chinese characters: My best advice | Hacking Chinese — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:22:46 +0000

[…] Diversify how you study Chinese to learn more – This means that you should spread out your learning as much as possible and use different ways to integrate it with the other things you like to do or are obliged to do. Learning Chinese is not limited to an hour a few times a week when you sit down to “learn some Chinese”. Listen to Chinese all the time while going about your daily activities, write characters on your shower walls and make sure you get most of your flashcard reviews done while waiting in lines, commuting or in other periods of brief downtime. […]

By: Are there any shortcuts for learning Chinese? - Hacking Chinese

Are there any shortcuts for learning Chinese? - Hacking Chinese — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:32:21 +0000

[…] Diversify and spread out your learning in general […]

By: 50 beginner questions about learning Chinese - Hacking Chinese

50 beginner questions about learning Chinese - Hacking Chinese — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:09:55 +0000

[…] busy with other things! How can I find the time to learn? Spread learning out over the day and across other activities. Learning is not only done in class or in front of a desk. You can combine learning Chinese with […]

By: How to learn Chinese characters as a beginner – Chinese Tutor Li

How to learn Chinese characters as a beginner – Chinese Tutor Li — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:36:02 +0000

[…] Diversify your character learning – You can do this in many different ways, but downloading a flashcard program for your phone, creating paper flashcards, pasting the characters all over your apartment and writing them on your hands are all good places to start. Studying isn’t only done in front of your desk. Diversifying your learning will vastly increase the time you can spend learning characters. Read more here: Diversified learning is smart learning. […]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:34:03 +0000

I like to practice numbers by reading the numbers on the car license plates around me. You can read them one digit at a time or group them into two or three or however many digit numbers are on the plate. It’s like an endless supply of flash cards at random intervals.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:24:32 +0000

In reply to Fearchar. Interesting! This is what Wiktionary has to say:

Mickle and muckle both traditionally meant "a large amount", hence the somewhat more logical variant "many a little makes a mickle". With the decline in the use of Scots the Scots phrase "Mony a pickle/puckle maks a mickle/muckle" became corrupted to "mony a mickle maks a muckle", hence, in Scottish English, under the influence of that, "mickle" has come to be perceived as "a small amount".

By: Fearchar

Fearchar — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:55:53 +0000

Warning! Thread hijack: “Mony a mickle maks a muckle” is always what I’ve known – suggesting that mickle = 少 and muckle = 很多.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:28:07 +0000

In reply to Joyce. Good ideas! One idea that just struck me is that my alarm has a small puzzle you need to complete to make it stop ringing (like tapping the right dots in sequence). It would be cool to replace that with a few flashcards you need to get right before it stops ringing! Embarrassing if it happens in class and you've forgotten the characters though. :)

By: Joyce

Joyce — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:38:57 +0000

Wait, I just remembered I have more:
– count in Chinese in your head where you would normally count in English (for me, that’s flossing, washing face, etc.)
– count in Chinese when stretching before a workout
– watch Chinese pronunciation/listen to podcasts while exercising
– slowly start to change little habits from English to Chinese (e.g. I sing “Happy Birthday to you” in my head while washing my hands w/ soap. Changed it to “祝你生日快樂“。