Tag: language learning
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Picking up Russian (again)
These books have been sitting in my apartment since I moved in and I’ve hardly had time to look at them. Actually, it wasn’t the time, it was the ability to look at them and spend the time to read and gain something from them. I bought these books when I was traversing through Russia…
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SSP7 – How to learn a language
Recorded on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Introduction Last week I posted about having finished the HSK Shang / Xia (上/ 下) books. I actually finished them a while back but I’m going through the grammar points once again, but this time with a teacher. Why didn’t I get a teacher in the first place? Because…
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Finished HSK 4 Books
I should be honest, I haven’t completely finished the HSK 4 books (both shang 上 and xia 下) but I’m pretty close. There are one or two more things I need to do in order to actually have finished the books. The first is that I have to go through both books and re-do the…
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Three Keys to Learning A Language: Interest, Relevance, Ease
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’m currently studying Mandarin Chinese on my own in my spare time. My current language effort got me thinking about all the other times I’ve tried to learn a language and how I’ve usually fallen short of my goals. It’s not that I didn’t learn anything in…
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Will Chinese become a global language like English?
I’ve heard this comment many times from all sorts of people: it’s a good idea to study Chinese now because one day it will either overtake English or become the next global language. Most arguments then mention how many Chinese people there are, I mean, there are 1.3 billion of them! But since coming to China and studying Chinese for just…