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petrea_mitchell) wrote2022-12-24 10:22 am
petrea_mitchell) wrote2022-12-24 10:22 am
Eight months of Chinese to go
Minus a few days, actually, but work has kept me too busy to feel like posting.
Today I made it to the end of the vocabulary introduction exercises in HelloChinese!
Which is of course not the same thing as learning all the vocabulary yet; I need to keep doing the review exercises and there's a bunch of auxiliary material yet to go (note the incomplete circles).
Around the time of my last post, HelloChinese veered into a lot of office vocabulary that I'm sure is useful to people who are trying to learn Chinese for serious business reasons but was tedious for me to wade through. The last couple weeks, though, have been dominated by common sentence patterns, which feel a whole lot more useful to me.
I have been to the Chinese-language section at Powell's a couple times now, and it doesn't appear to carry any Chinese science fiction. Poking about online has pointed me to one possible Chinese bookstore which may or may not still exist way off in southeast Portland.
Today's random word figured out from the Chengdu Worldcon site: 会员 (huìyuán), "member".
Today I made it to the end of the vocabulary introduction exercises in HelloChinese!
Which is of course not the same thing as learning all the vocabulary yet; I need to keep doing the review exercises and there's a bunch of auxiliary material yet to go (note the incomplete circles).
Around the time of my last post, HelloChinese veered into a lot of office vocabulary that I'm sure is useful to people who are trying to learn Chinese for serious business reasons but was tedious for me to wade through. The last couple weeks, though, have been dominated by common sentence patterns, which feel a whole lot more useful to me.
I have been to the Chinese-language section at Powell's a couple times now, and it doesn't appear to carry any Chinese science fiction. Poking about online has pointed me to one possible Chinese bookstore which may or may not still exist way off in southeast Portland.
Today's random word figured out from the Chengdu Worldcon site: 会员 (huìyuán), "member".