How To Memorize Chinese and Not Forget Them

[Qiaonansen]

Greetings folks,

 

First, I enjoy this forum and I often come here and learn quite a bit. So thank you for that.

 

I have been studying and teaching Chinese for nearly 20 years. I have finally gotten around to writing and making videos on my experiences. Here is the latest on a system for learning and memorizing Chinese characters and vocabulary.

 

Your comments and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Be gentle.

 

http://learnchinesecafe.com/how-memorize-chinese-characters-and-never-forget-them/

 

Regards,

 

Jonathan

[Qiaonansen]

Greetings folks,

 

I have finally gotten around to posting about the method I used to transform my language-butchering Chinese accent into a standard and fluent one: one that leads native Chinese to think I am also Chinese when speaking with me on the phone. They are always quite surprised when they see me in person.

 

http://learnchinesecafe.com/how-to-speak-chinese-fluently-using-google-translate/

[Qiaonansen]

This video is a little long... but the method is systematic and solid. If you have the discipline to following it, you will succeed with characters.

 

http://learnchinesecafe.com/how-memorize-chinese-characters-and-never-forget-them/

[roddy]

Merging with yesterday's post. And also with a post from last year where you posted about the same article. 

 

Honestly, we don't need a post for every blog article. 

[Apollys]

I would recommend using actual native speech rather than a robot as a model from which to practice one's pronunciation.

 

For learning to speak a sentence fluidly, I think a nice method is the following.  Let's use 大学在哪里? as an example.

1) Say each character in isolation: 大，学，在，哪，里

2) Say each word: 大学，在，哪里

3) Join adjacent words: 大学在，在哪里

4) Speak the full sentence: 大学在哪里?