Comments on Duffblog 2.0: Getting serious about Mandarin

Thanks Anonymous, fixed!

2009-05-13T15:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks Anonymous, fixed!

Brian, I stumbled across your site while searching...

2009-03-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

Brian, I stumbled across your site while searching for some oracle stuff. To help people learn Chinese, I built a list of Chinese characters sorted by usage frequency. See
http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/ChineseCharFrequency.html

I completely agree with you on using hints to memorize characters, or words in any foreign language. I can memorize about 20 new Spanish words in a few minutes with this method. For Chinese, I have a short writeup:
http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/LearnChinese.html

Yong Huang
yong321@yahoo.com

The sound of 問 ask (sorry I only has the tradition...

2009-03-11T20:47:00.000-07:00

The sound of 問 ask (sorry I only has the traditional Chinese character in my computer) should be (wen4) not (wen2).

Hope you enjoy learning Chinese ^_^

Ha, what a surprise! You are doing really well Bri...

2009-02-24T04:48:00.000-08:00

Ha, what a surprise! You are doing really well Brian. For most Chinese we do not distinguish ü and u on computers partly because ü is difficult to find on the keyboard... You reminded me my Chinese lessons when 6 years old. :D Keep it going! 加油!

BTW, hate to say this but 问 is wen4 rather than wen2. :)

Thanks for the tips. I still have trouble sometime...

2009-02-04T11:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the tips. I still have trouble sometimes with 六－九。I'm in my second semester and I have to say that studying Chinese is on par with the level of effort I had to put into my most difficult engineering classes. I'm really enjoying it though.