Comments on: The three factors that determine how much Chinese you learn https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-factors-decide-much-chinese-learn/ A better way of learning Mandarin Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:25:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Diego https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-factors-decide-much-chinese-learn/#comment-60570 Sat, 22 Feb 2020 15:35:28 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=8823#comment-60570 In reply to John.

Was your PhD written in another language? I always found easier to recall concepts studied in highschool in my own mother tongue than in any other language (supposedly I did a decent amount of repetition of the topic and the vocabulary)

]]> By: John https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-factors-decide-much-chinese-learn/#comment-16194 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:34:31 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=8823#comment-16194 I suppose by default you include “practice” (i.e. revision, real life conversation and listening, observing actual Chinese on the street in you happen to live in China) in the “method” component. In my view this is vital and easy to switch off once you close the text book or leave the classroom

As for time, the physical passage of time is important. By this I mean if you study consistently you need the physical passage of time for things to sink into your long term memory. Even if you subscribe to Benny Lewis’s views or other kind of rapid learning, unless you repeat over and over for years, you will lose it very quickly.

I did my PhD over 20 years ago and because I spent years at the same topic (day and night) I still remember a fair amount of it despite not looking the content for 2 decades

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