Adam Ehrlich
Member
Is there something in the works for game-style learning? Sometimes, its kind of dry learning chraracters from flashcards. It would be great if you could somehow incorporate some kind of game to make it a little more fun.
... and pedagogically we think character-focused Chinese learning is a bad idea + aren't inclined to do much to encourage people to study that way.
[...] Learning a language as perversely complicated as Chinese [...]
Chinese seems to some learners "perversely complicated" and "insanely rich" because it is a language genealogically and tipologically very different from the ones they are familiar with. It's easy to forget this simple fact. Learners that remember this obvious fact find it easier to include Chinese in the scope of their linguistic experience, and become familiar more readily with what at first made no sense to them.[...] Fortunately, the language is also insanely rich [...]
Which can make such richness a mixed blessing, if you get hooked on too many things at the same time.Fortunately, the language is also insanely rich, and there are plenty of ways to get hooked on something
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps". But, what does "word" refer to in Chinese? Some linguists say it doesn't refer to any thing; the rest don't agree on what it refers to.If the mystique of characters leaves you cold, ignore them and learn words instead.