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Signese Revival 42
By roddy
One fairly random photo of Chinese characters in action, per week, until sometime in 2018. And perhaps longer if I'm encouraged. Those who want to contribute their own random photos of Chinese characters are welcome, just get in touch and I'll add you to the contributor list so you can post directly, from computer or phone. Can't imagine it happens anywhere mean as much now, but calling cards used to be enormous business.- 0 comments
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Week 15 - 城堡！
By js6426
This week was a standard week with not much to say. I don't really want to write posts just for the sake of writing them, so I think this will be my last post until we start our finals, which is 3 weeks from now. Then I will do a post to finish the semester, including areas I feel I have grown in, and areas that need the most improvement. Perhaps also some goals for the break. I will then do a post after my finals, and maybe a mid-break post to try and keep myself working! The t- 1 comment
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90-day transcribing challenge: Final update
By mlescano
This morning I finished day 90. I used two types of content: 1) Clearly spoken stuff: Slow Chinese, HSK5 recordings, and a magazine podcast for natives. Sometimes I prepared subtitles beforehand using WorkAudioBook, and during the transcribing session I thus was able to do corrections immediately after each line. This lead to time "wasted" doing the corrections, but also stopped me from repeating the same mistake again. Other times, I did not prepare subtitles, and just used Wo- 4 comments
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Toilet instructions
By abcdefg
One sees this sign, usually only in Chinese, in the male toilets of lots of public places. The English translation here is particularly lame.- 10 comments
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997,630 Characters to Go
By murrayjames
In “The 2019 Aims and Objectives Progress Topic” thread, I recently resolved to read one million Chinese characters in books and articles this year. Our esteemed forum administrator @roddy reached out to ask if I would chronicle my attempt to do this through posts on this website. And here I am. My goal is to read one million characters in 2019. To accomplish this will require reading 2,750 characters per day, or three to seven pages of text per day, on average. That is a manageable- 2 comments
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