Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:24AM
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Honestly if you just write characters over and over while listening to Chinese TV you'll be fine. That's how I studied and when I presented in my Chinese class, the two students from Chongqing (who were taking the class to learn traditional characters) were so surprised at my pronunciation their jaws were on the floor.
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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by EdHominem on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:26PM
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You transcribed TV shows while repeating the words as they spoke them?
Did you put an inordinate amount of time in or do you think your methodology was just that good?
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:38PM
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No I just wrote whatever characters we were studying in class that week over and over while I watched streams of Chinese TV. I watched with Chinese subtitles but I didn't actually try to understand every word. It was mostly about framing my mindset towards a Chinese style of speaking and writing.
I spent maybe an hour or two a day, a few days a week. That was my most productive study method for calligraphy and pronunciation. Grammar and other subjects had to be studied in separate ways, but keeping the Chinese tv stream on helped either way.