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    Chinese Project Notes 5: Monodics

    August 13, 2007
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    A lot of people have asked me “hey Khatzumoto, which monolingual Chinese dictionaries do you use?”. And I respond to them in comments, but no one gets to read comments. So here it is, a list of the monodics I currently use. 國語辭典簡編本 (The Abridged Mandarin Dictionary, designed for children, it has pictures and you can even get...

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    Chinese Project Notes 3: Environment-Building + The Laddering Method Reloaded

    August 10, 2007
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    Chinese Project Notes 3: Environment-Building + The Laddering Method Reloaded

    So, the Chinese Project is going really well. I made another shopping trip to my favorite Taiwanese online bookstore. These are new members of my Chinese media collection (except for 玩具總動員/Toy Story, which is an older member): So, most of what I have are comic books and Disney/Pixar DVDs in Chinese. I also have Chinese-dubbed Powerpuff Girls, because I...

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    Chinese Project Notes 2: Went Monolingual

    July 23, 2007
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    Today, July 20, 2007, I crossed the Rubicon and went fully monolingual in Chinese. I do sometimes look up a Japanese word to find Chinese example sentences for it. So I guess this, makes me a mix between Steps 3 and 4 as outlined in this post on how to make the transition. As far as I’m concerned this...

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    Chinese Project Notes 1: On Shopping Trips and Sentence Sources

    July 21, 2007
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    In the spirit of putting one’s money where one’s mouth is, Ihave set a $40-$50/month Chinese media budget, which allows for about 4-5 books or DVDs. So, today (July 18, 2007) I was learning sentences mined from an order confirmation notice I got from 博客來 (books.com.tw) where I had bought the stuff, and it struck me how much quicker...

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