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introduction
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These pages are a collection of
study materials I've developed, as well as essays and other thoughts and
musings that
I've recorded along my quest to conquer the
Chinese language. I later realized that there is a common thread
that runs through all the content, and that is the emphasis on patterns.
Patterns are repeating features of spoken and written language, which we
can relate to previous knowledge and experiences. Patterns of course
exist in every language, but they are a particularly useful concept with
Chinese, with its overwhelming amount of visual as well as semantic
information. Patterns are all about finding connections in order to
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essays
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word
lists
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I've
found that creating word lists is a vey effective way to assimilate
vocabulary, especially if each list has a specific theme.
These lists can be browsed or downloaded as they are, but they're also a
good fit for flashcards, and I'm
working on distributions so that you'll be able to import them into
your favorite flashcard program.
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- a really cool and innovative
character card game,
Chinese Squabble
(or
here) developed by my
friend Ax
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Zhongwen.com, the only
online Chinese dictionary you'll ever need. |
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odds &
ends
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contact
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This site is a work in
progress, and will be updated regularly. For now, everything that is
published here may be freely used or referenced for non-commercial purposes. In the future, I may
develop some of the content into educational materials.
If you have suggestions or comments regarding anything on this site, please email me.
You can also look me up at forumosa.com,
where I go by the alias mangalica. I
also frequent azsia.net, a
Hungarian language site on all things Asian, where my alias is
jozsi. |
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