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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 12:21:26 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   How I memorize Chinese characters. First, I memorise a component, then if 2 or more components form a word, I create a story of how they came together. For example, for 好, which is made of 女 (nǚ, woman) and 子 (zĭ, child), I imagine a mother-in-law saying that a man with a woman and a child is a good thing 🤭.
   I do encounter difficulties with less familiar words tho. May have to depend more on memory palace techniques in the future for those.

   #Language #Mandarin #Languages

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 12:53:58 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • swanksalot

     @swanksalot Repetition doesn't help me at all, for some reason 😑 So I have to do all this just to get some kinda foothold

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     swanksalot (swanksalot@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 12:53:59 JST swanksalot

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     @liztai I found that repetition helped me to learn characters but creating a story helps sometimes.