Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016)

Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by dastbe on Sunday November 12, 2017 @11:27AM (#15681340)

And even if they don’t know the words, they have internalized the learning methods to quickly ingest characters. Chinese classes go from learning barely 200-500 characters in a semester at the introductory level to that much in a week by your third or so year.

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Re:Jōyō kanji variants: The curious case of 叱 and 𠮟 (2016) by timr on Sunday November 12, 2017 @11:52AM (#15681445)

Wellll...I don't know Chinese and have never studied in China, so I can't speculate in that domain. But I wouldn't be so quick to infer specific techniques from their memorization speed -- they're fluent in a very similar written language, and it's much faster to learn things (in any language) when you're fluent. They also grew up in a...well, let's call it a memorization-intensive learning environment.

The only things I can say with confidence are:

  * focus on words
  * learning words becomes faster in *any* language as you gain proficiency
  * learning radicals helps you recognize kanji, and is a good thing to do

That's really my complete set of advice on the subject.

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