{"id":14,"date":"2010-09-19T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-09-19T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:15:19","slug":"pre-launch-plea-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/pre-launch-plea-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"A pre-launch plea for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi everybody!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"#chinese\">\u4e2d\u6587\u7248\u672c (in Chinese)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_2186\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hcseal22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2186\" title=\"Hacking Chinese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hcseal22-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since I started studying Chinese, I&#8217;ve realised that there are many things to learn that no textbook and few teachers will tell you. I&#8217;m not talking about things in ordinary books here, but on how to study Chinese. As you probably know, I&#8217;ve written extensively about this on my website for many years, but I&#8217;ve now decided that it&#8217;s time to write something more serious about it. To start with, I&#8217;m going to launch a new website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\">Hacking Chinese<\/a>, but my goal is ultimately to write a book about learning Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>This is something I can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t do alone, I need your help! You don&#8217;t need to do much, in fact you don&#8217;t need to do anything at all. However, if you think that you might be able to help me (you don&#8217;t have to promise!) with any of the following, please let me know!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cheer me on<br \/> \u2022 Read updates<br \/> \u2022 Comment on ideas<br \/> \u2022 Ask questions<br \/> \u2022 Answer questions<br \/> \u2022 Discuss learning<br \/> \u2022 Suggest resources<br \/> \u2022 Tell me I&#8217;m wrong<br \/> \u2022 Tell me I&#8217;m right<br \/> \u2022 Provide other perspectives<br \/> \u2022 Proof read texts<br \/> \u2022 Edit texts<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to be interested in all these things! The only thing that will happen if you tell me that you&#8217;re interested is that I will write down your e-mail address and what you&#8217;re interested in, so you will be able to see what&#8217;s going on with this project. 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