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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 16:00:41 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   I can now read this. It's only HSK 1 level, but the joy of being able to read Chinese when I couldn't last year is 😭
   One step at a time!

   #Chinese #Languages

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     Matthew Booth (mattb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 20:32:55 JST Matthew Booth

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     @liztai What app is this?

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 03:31:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @mattb it's a website called Mandarin Bean. You can turn pinyin off and on. Usually I turn it off, and I can click on characters I don't know to get the pinyin. I use the website like a textbook

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     Language Tales (langtales@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 03:32:45 JST Language Tales

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     @liztai https://mandarinbean.com is great!

     I’m reading the following graded reader (caveat: not free) and I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I understand: https://mandarincompanion.com/products/my-teacher-is-a-martian/

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 03:32:45 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @langtales I got one of their readers! Yea me too. Very gratifying.

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     thepoliticalcat (thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 07:16:39 JST thepoliticalcat

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     @liztai Learn from where one, pls? Looking to improve my Chinese reading and speaking skills.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 07:16:39 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @thepoliticalcat Hrrmm, not from one place, but I used a number of techniques and used a few tools. I basically went through a frequency list and memorized them. But I also know most of the words already, so I don't have the extra load of learning new vocab. So I basically matched words to characters which is infinitely easier.

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     thepoliticalcat (thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 07:32:52 JST thepoliticalcat

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     @liztai Thanks, that's good advice. I used to be able to read and write, but if you don't use it, you lose it. Now I look at the characters and I can remember one or another, but it's a strain. Maybe I'll concentrate on matching characters to concepts/words, and see how that goes. Writing is hard bc I have major hand/arm-related disabilities!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 07:32:52 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @thepoliticalcat haha writing is hard!! I never understood the stroke order, always got it wrong. In the end, it's just much easier to learn characters via typing. I don't think you'd have much difficulty remembering what you learned - try Tofu Learn and download the frequent chinese words deck. And revise, you should be able to spur that memory!