How I learned 2000 Chinese characters in 50 days, and you can too - Pablo Román | PG 2018

Hello, good morning, thank you for coming to my talk even though it is very early in the morning, my name is Pablo and at the end of the talk we will use the slide or application to ask questions so you can use it on your phone. I am going to give a talk about how I

learned

2000

Chinese

characters

in 50

days

and you can too if you are on vacation like me or you are very motivated and have no social life or you are just a normal person. and only me for 30 minutes a day, so it takes you more than 6 months, but let's not kid ourselves, you got on a plane and flew here to learn with our language experts, you are one of us, you will probably learn them in even less time than me, geeks, so I was living in Japan and I realized no, sorry.

When I started attending these events, these conferences, I noticed that a lot of people are afraid of East Asian languages ​​and most of the time it's because of the script. They

learned

that they have to study thousands of

characters

and yes, that can be very scary, but with this talk I want to show them that it is not as scary as it should be and I want to motivate more people to learn Japanese Chinese and when I was living in Japan, I noticed, and many foreigners who live there, noticed that people from other countries in the station found it much easier, they learned Japanese much faster, so Korean Chinese students learn a lot of Chinese because I learned Japanese much more fast and that's because they were already used to the characters. to the letters because many of them are shared between Japanese and Chinese and they are used to the letters, although they do not know how to say them, they do not know how to pronounce them because they do not know the words, but that makes it very easy for them to learn the new language of Toronto, so what they I'm going to teach today is a way, a method to get to that point very quickly, if you want to learn Chinese, The point where our Japanese staff would start is that you have to learn the language, but you are already very used to the characters, so that you don't have that wall at the beginning of learning the language and not only that, but it's very fast, so you don't have to go through the years and years that Japanese and Chinese students in school go through to get their writing system.

This can be done much faster, so I wanted to clarify the Chinese characters for those of you who don't know. that Chinese and Japanese share a common writing system, there are some differences, some characters are different but they are based on the same, they are very similar, so the same method can be used for both, so today, look, I will teach today. It works to learn Chinese letters but also that type of kanji, which are letters of Chinese origin in Japanese. Japanese has two other writing systems that are simpler. You don't need this method for those because they can't be learned like any other.

For any other language, these are the most difficult, so I wanted to focus on this, so the estimate for learning characters using this method is that to learn Japanese the 2200 characters that students have to learn in school, it would take approximately three months if you spend an hour a day studying and it will take you six to seven months if you spend 30 minutes a day and for Chinese reading fluency, many estimates are around 3000 characters, it should be enough to read almost anything and that would take you an hour. four or five months if you study one hour a day or around ten months if you study 30 minutes a day.

In fact, when I tried this method I learned 200 characters in my first week and I couldn't forget them, so I was surprised. It was like magic. I was left with my mouth open, amazed and dumbfounded as the world, because I like the character of mouth that you can easily imagine as an open mouth, so the square represents like a mouth open and open, so it's this kind of It's easy to remember and the reason why I like this method so much and why I think it is the best is because it has four characteristics. Some methods may have one or two of them, but I haven't found any other method that has all four. of this and the first is that it is fast, you need to spend very little time with each character, so each additional character you learn is very little extra time that you have to spend, you do not need to write the same character on top of it. and again and again, as students do in Japan and China, the second is that it is ambiguous, so a problem that many students have when learning Japanese Chinese characters is that some of them look very similar, as if the only difference was a small stroke. a different position or a small stroke that is missing and with this method the characters will be completely different concepts in your mind, you will never mix characters that look similar because in your mind there will be completely different things and look because I will show you a demonstration the third is that it includes writing you will know how to write if you want you know how to write all the characters that you know you remember and this actually if you follow this method It is actually easy to be able to write more characters than even the Japanese because they are not used to writing too much by hand and the forwarding of the fourth is which is systematic, so you can use it to learn all the characters. that you will ever need thousands of them because there are other methods that teach you, maybe using pictures, but not all characters can be learned that way, so that leaves you with like 400 or 500 characters that are not enough to read a book or read a newspaper and that suits you, what do I do now?

With this method you will cover as many as you need and yes, with this method you will be able to learn the meaning of Google. You learn a meaning for each of the characters. Do you want to associate that meaning with a character? you learn writing how to write them how to write each stroke in the same correct way as the people of Japan and China do and not recognizing them is that what you are reading you will be able to identify each of the characters and know what they mean what you don't know what You won't learn although it is better that way you will learn the characters but you will still have to do the same work that you do to learn any other language, that is, you will have to learn the actual words and you will not learn the pronunciation.

It's more complicated, it's a little easier for the Chinese than for the Japanese, but I think. They are trying to do both at the same time the characters and also the pronunciation with phonetics for a language that you are not yet used to. I think it's too much work and not ideal because in the future you have to learn anyway. words you have to learn to associate the words with the meaning instantly when you are in a conversation and learning to read the characters doesn't help you so I think it's a waste of time when you already know the words. combining words with the character you already know is basically zero effort, you have to spend time on it, it's a concept, they are both already concepts in your mind, the character and the reward, that you have learned in Chinese or Japanese and you just put them together. it's free it's crazy and basically you don't forget Chinese or a Chinese person who regrets learning Japanese and you have a solid solid foundation strong as a tree so this is the character for tree and we can remember this thanks Leo how The character evolved, so initially it represented the drawing of the roots and branches of a tree, so in the middle you can see that the top lines are the branches and the bottom lines are the roots and with the evolution the branches went up a little up and up. they attached to the roots, I mean, they went up a little bit and attached to the branches and other roots come from above, which is a little strange, but you can imagine that the top line is the branches and the lines going down are the roots . and we will find this character again and again, so don't worry, well, in the end we will remember it, we will remember it very well, so if you haven't realized yet what we are doing to remember that the characters or the characters are Ebonics and yes this will work and this method is based on what it is not based on, it is the method that Heizak invented so it comes from these books and they are amazing, it is not necessary.

Buy them. I'll teach you how to use this method without actually spending any money, but it's still good to buy them. I recommend it if you can, if you can, and there are books. I recommend books one and three for Japanese people whose book. 2 is for the readings on how to promise the letters and it is something worthwhile for the Chinese, its sports simplified for mainland China and traditional for Hong Kong and Taiwan, and with books one, two, one and two, you can get up to 3000 characters, so both Japanese and Chinese you can get up to 3000 characters, around 3000 characters, so I'll give you an example: the character for products uses the character for mouth that we learned before so you can see that this is the character for mouth three times, so The way we can remember that this character means Goods is with a story like this.

When we think of goods in modern industrial society, we think of what has been mass produced, that is, produced for the open-mouthed masses waiting like little birds in a nest. You could see everything that was presented to them, so that we can imagine it as three mouths of three consumers waiting for the products of the goods that in rusty industrial societies provide them, so we can imagine it as three little birds, three consumers waiting for the products and For this method it is very important to use your imagination, so that to really imagine the story happening, you're not using, you're not using visual memory, there's no photographic memory involved here, it's conceptual memory, it's imagination and our example is this example uses both. characters that we learned before, so we can see that the same parts are used over and over again, so here we have the mouth character and the tree character, which means founded prey, so I'm amazed, this is how we can remember this character.

On the war night of my life I woke up with a strong hangover on top of a tree. As I got here, I opened my mouth in stupefied astonishment. So you can imagine that I got very drunk and woke up in the morning on top of a tree with my mouth open. , What am I doing here? I was flabbergasted just by the situation, so it's an easy way to remember this character, so we're using stories, yeah, we're using stories, these books, if you followed the books. introduced the meaning of each of the character parts and then shows you many characters that use those parts, so for example we learn the character of the mouth and then the book continues showing many characters that use that part of the mouth, which which means you keep going over the events of those parts, you review them many times when you first learned them, that helps to engrave them in your memory and you remember them very well and also the stupefied character is not very common but it is very simple, use parts that you have already learned it and not only that, but this character also appears as part of all the characters that are a wave of common support to this one, so it is worth learning it before because you will use it for our common characters and because the little effort involved. when learning an additional character it is so little and you learn them so quickly that it is actually better to learn the easiest ones to learn first and not worry about which ones are used by frequency, frequently or less frequently because you learn many of them in It is very little time anyway and yes, I also want to show how these stories help you distinguish very similar looking characters, so we will learn the character big, just as we will remember big we will be with a story like this. shows a person with his arms open so you can imagine like this you can imagine a person's two legs and he has his arms open like this so she was a person with his arms open showing how much he needs to open his arms to hug a big sumo wrestler fat, so one person likes this one and it shows you that the sumo wrestler is that big.

I need to open my arms like this and this character is used separately for the character document, so the way you will remember the character is the dog, this represents a sumo wrestler. with the open arms and the fall that is added like a fourth whoa like a fourth and final blow up here I represent the stick that the man is ready to throw at his dog, so the way we imagine that this is a great fighter of sumo with a stick. and he's going to throw the stick at his dog, so this is the character to talk to and a similar looking character will be polled, so here we can see him swimming again, the sumo wrestler with a little thing on his back. lower. and the way we're going to remember this I've tried it before and people thought strange things, it's not that strange, but maybe not as strange as you guys think, so this really is a vegetable sumo wrestler, this one is extra fat . the drop at the bottom represents sweat, so he's so fat that he can, he can stop himself from sweating all the time, so you can imagine a big, fat sumo wrestler, like very, very fat, he's so fat that he's all over red and sweating, and the thing at the bottom What's at the bottom is the drop of sweat, so if you get the book, I recommend you start reading it, you don't need it, although if you're looking to remember theintroducing kanji or remembering Hansy's hand, I'll say.

It's in English because I know how to speak Chinese. Remember that in the handy introduction you can find it for free online and start reading through the book if you don't use DuckDuckGo and want to use a normal search engine, that's fine, and if when you search for the book you will see that there are stories, the book already it gives you stories for the first 500 characters, but after that it lets you make up your own stories and the author of the book recommends that you do that because it will help you get stories that are better for you because you will be able to find stories that are interesting, weird or obscene They work too. very well, you are not going to show them to anyone, so you are free to make up very, very strange stories, remembering the groped ones like aan Zee.

Yes, in Chinese you will say like this and yes, then the book only has five hundred. stories and I'm okay with the fact that some of the stories are a little generic, but it's a lot of work trying to create as many as mm - ha - fifteen hundred stories, so a great resource to use is kensey kenzi.com. come here to share your own stories so you can explore a lot of different stories and choose the one you like the most and these amazing parts save you a lot of time and you can visit the website and you can do it in the top left box.

You can put the number of the character that's in the book or you can, if you're starting from the beginning, you just go 1 2 3 4 5 and it shows the character, it shows the mini, the meeting and down here you can see shared stories and you see all the stories that everyone has shared and you choose the best one, the one you think you will remember beyond Sometimes, when Prometheus is gone, people find additional meanings for them, more interesting meanings, for example, the primitive for thread like Thread like the one the poles are made of, some people thought was okay instead of thread.

I'm going to say this is Spider Man and they have Spider Man in their stories which makes for a bar or memorable stories so I'm going to give an example of how we can use this website to learn a new character so let's say So we get to the utensil character, as you can see, it's made of two different parts, the mouth part that we learned about before and the pickaxe power, so it's basically four mouths around a big sumo wrestler, so the shape What we will remember this for are the hungry mouths of four cannibals sitting around a large man stuffed and decorated like the part, at least they have the ability to use utensils, so we can imagine a large sumo wrestler. sumo wrestler on a table and there are four cannibals around him with their mouths open ready to eat him, but they are using a fork, an ax and a spoon, so this is the meaning of the utensils, so we connect all the different parts of the characters through a story and at the end we have the meaning of the characters, they are all the utensils that the four cannibals are using and yes, the book on this website kenzi.com uses the keyword and character numbers to the Japanese version of the book, if you are learning Chinese, you can go to this URL and there is a link to a forum post where a guy describes how you can use the website for Chinese.

It's not difficult, it involves finding a list of words. of words from the Chinese book and there you get the numbers that you can then go and put on the website, okay, and yeah, you just do this every day and you can learn X amount of new characters. I know between 10 and 50 depending on how much time you have? I think 25 is a good amount if you have some time every afternoon or evening to study. Now we know how to learn new characters, but how do we make sure we don't forget? them and thick and for the two people here who are the Nova Rockies, it's a flash car app and it's a space repeat, so you have flash garments you have a question and an answer, so first you see the question and then you You test and see if you know yourself. you remember the answer or not and then you answer if you remember if you don't remember it or you barely remember it or you remember it well or very well and what it does is spatial repetition, that is, it tries to optimize the time in which you are asked to review that card to that you don't waste time studying things that you already know well, you will draw the car and you will see it again tomorrow and then in three

days

and then in a week and then in a month, so this makes this help you not spend more time reviewing than necessary and therefore do it the way you will review them: it goes from keyword to character, has the keyword in front so you see the word speak and your job is to remember the character, if you are interested in be able to write Chinese or Japanese, I recommend that you have a sheet of paper and write it.

The Android app has a whiteboard feature so you can write with your finger. If you just want to be able to read the characters and identify them, you can draw them in your mind, no problem, as long as you remember the story and remember the different parts of the character and where they were, that's enough for you to see the world talk here and your job is to remember the character. I recommend also having the story in the answer. You don't need to read every time if you did it right, but if you make a mistake, there you can read it again and yeah, tomorrow you won't be able to see it here but you have like four buttons.

I remember. I remember. I barely remember it. I remember. Everyone remembers it very well. And this is for Anki. The kenzi.com website also has a repeat slot functionality, so you can use our website for almost everything. Still, I recommend reading the introduction of the book because it gives additional information and shows how to write the strokes, in which direction and the order of the strokes I found the The author of the book discovered that it is not necessary and I found the same thing, we don't know why it works , but studying it this way is enough to be able to recognize the character when you find it in the text, we don't know why, but but.

Yes, when you see a character, you can already remember the story because you see the parts there and you can remember the meanings, so there is no need to say it any other way. Yes, I did this and I'll show you how. That's how it was for me when I was learning. I started this in 2010 and Anki has this stats functionality which is really cool, you can look at any of the bars or a week, so I spent about seven weeks of intense this. By the way, these are new cards that I started studying, so this is the number of new cards that I added to my Anki attack each week, so you can see that the maximum is 350, so for a week, every day, I constantly had 50 new ones. characters I was dying 52 characters I was on vacation so if you have a job and you quit then it will be lower but it should still be well below wine one year in total and you can see the blue line here showing the amount total of cars I added so after seven weeks I was at

2000

so it took me about 50 days to get to 2000 characters and then I took it easy because I was going to Japan after six months and long before I went to Japan.

I had already gotten to over 3,000 characters and after that I kept adding a bit whenever I found some characters when I was reading or something, but there aren't many new ones you'll find if you're already stuck. up to 3000 characters, these are for new cards that I started using and they are for reviews, so how much time do I spend reviewing every day, at the top I was spending this 22 or 23 hours a week, which is a little over three hours. per day, so yeah, most people won't be able to do that unless they just focus on doing that and I don't recommend that because you can also try to stop doing that, which is not good, right? shortly after I stopped adding so many new cards it went down more to what is this more - this is like 40 minutes or a little less every day and after a while it went down to more like 15 minutes and continued to go down after a few months and years After that, I finally figured out that I stopped checking them because I realized that I didn't need to be able to write anything but my own address, even when I lived in Japan, if you want to still be able to do that.

Write to them. I recommend that you continue studying. If in your life you practiced some writing just because you like riding a bike or some letters or whatever way you want to keep practicing, you might be able to stop doing your revisions, even, but what I found is that even If I stop making reviews I can still read them, I won't forget. I keep reading and it is something that is forgotten much later than writing them, writing them is more complicated and I think you don't do it. You need to write the same character many times, but you have to write it from time to time if you don't want to forget how to write it, but you will still be able to identify them, so I read Japanese.

I'm better at reading Japanese that even when I was doing this it just causes more exposure or reading practice, that's okay and yes I recommend doing this and not learning to read the characters because you don't have to waste time learning the words anyway so the two The two-step program for learning Japanese or Chinese is the first step: learn the country or Hansy this way. The second step proceeds as usual, simply learn the language the same way you would like to learn any other language. Yes, I found that the system works much better than anything else.

I haven't found any other people who can just walk around Japan and read basically everything and read basically all the texts and haven't used this unless they're exhausted, they've spent like 20 years or so with it, but there are some problems with using the book I found and I want to help you if you do this. I want to help you with this like little pains and first I'm going to show you the character by person, so I'll use it as an example, so you can imagine a person walking like this with two legs and maybe the person has their hands in their pockets or something like that and the character of person will also appear as a part. of our characters, but having a person in your stories is not very easy to remember because many stories will have people, so it is better to find a meaning that is more specific so that, instead of being a person, it is the person that Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris do. something very special because when he's with other things he tends to do a roundhouse kick, a roundhouse kick like this, so you can imagine him as Chuck Norris instead of his roundhouse kick and yeah, when we get this part, this part will be on the left. side of the character most of the time and we will have Chuck Norris in our story, so my first weak point was because the key words and because the key words mean that you are reading the book and you find the word for the character. rest but you may not be sure if it means rest like taking a break or the rest the rest how they stay like that and if you don't have a story to clarify that can confuse you and end up making a completely wrong story, so what I recommend for that's using a dictionary, there's Ricky Kuhn for Chrome, if you're doing Japanese, there's our extensions for Chinese and for our browsers that are very similar, so they're just called pop-up dictionary and if you go to the website which I'll show you before we go the mouse, just hover your mouse over the character and it will show you this popup, so here you can see that the character means rest, day off, sleep retired, so you can be I'm pretty sure that means taking some time to rest Yes, so the way we will remember this character is that Chuck Norris never starts, therefore he never leans on the streets to rest, but rather the trees lean on Chuck Norris to rest when they are tired. standing all the time, so you can imagine that the trees, the trees, get tired and say, oh, there's a Chuck Norris here, let's lean on him to rest.

My second second pain point was mixing keywords, so, for example, I give you another example of how you learn something new. character this is the character to protect so we can see on the right side the character to stupefied that we learn before about the guy with a hangover who is at the top of the tree and you have Chuck Norris so the way we can associate this character to the world protects is Chang Norris saw me when I was stupefied and as below on the top of a tree he told me to jump and he protected my fall with his strong and weak arms so I was on the top of the tree and I saw Chuck Norris and he told me come I will protect you with my arms and he protected my guilt so that way we associate the character with protecting the world and we will be going through the book but then we will find characters that have similar meanings. skewers that have similar sounds similar meanings I mean and we will find guard and defense and when reading this it will not be a problem because we will see that the character will remember the story and we know what it means it does not matter if we remember the exact keyword, but rather its general meaning It's good enough.

The problem is that when we are checking in Hankie we see the keyword. It's pretty easy to jump from the keyword to the wrong story, so I'll show you how to do it. avoid that, so what we can do is add additional information to the powerfrom the key card question and instead of protecting, for example, we can say protect someone to match our story with Chuck Norris where he protects us, he is protecting. someone instead of protecting we can say a car like the person who works as a security car guard or something like that and instead of defending we can say it will be defending a country and we make a story that matches that meaning and then When we meet the character, we will still know what defend means, we just know that the way we are learning is to defend our country just to clarify, but in the questions part of Anki we can also make sure to highlight defend to remember that that is the real meaning, so you are on the list, if you want to implement this method, read the book or buy the book or get the introduction online and then learn the characters using the book or use kenzi.com make a deck of cards in hanky or use the same website On the first day you can start learning your first 20 stories and adding them to your unki or adding them on the website and then you can set 30 minutes each day to make sure you do reviews, don't forget the ones you already know and learn some more stories as well that if you don't know them, if you know that you have a limited amount of time every day, you don't need to always learn the same amount of new characters, you can just set up 30 minutes to do all the reviews you have for that day and, if only , if you have time left you can add new cards, so if you only have time for five new cards, it's okay just ten new parts, that's okay and that way you'll make sure you don't get overwhelmed and end up having to do it for like three hours . of reviews one day and once you're done, you'll move on to the other book, then you'll learn Japanese or Chinese like you learn any other language and finally, I want to see if this method really works, so we're going to be having a little test, don't worry.

I'm going to ask so you can evaluate yourself, no one is going to put you on the spot, but we'll see if it really works, so the first question is what is the conversation that I just want, no. answer this raise your hand if you are pretty sure, more than 50% confident that you know right, very good second question, oh yeah, so it was this one, the fat sumo wrestler, the one who is going to throw his stick correctly, what it means this? The first thing you should do if you remember the story and if you're pretty sure, you know it depends on the character, oh, pretty and pretty good, and finally yeah, he was a utensil, so it was the four cannibals that were going to eat to the fan with our utensils and, finally, what is the character? to protect, so think of yourself first, remember the story.

I know you may not be able to write the parts, but just if you remember what parts were there, please raise your hand. Oh, incredible, Co Co Co, yes, that's right, we have a stupefied hangover. Guy and Chuck Norris protecting his fall and yes, we finally have Spider-Man. Spider-Man was busy saving people, but then winter came and his ropes became brittle and he fell and he was the end, so I'm Power Man and I know this. Unrelated, but I'm making Spanish videos for Spanish learners, so you can go there if you want to learn Spanish too.

Thanks, we'll send you some questions from the slider. The first is that this sounds like a good system. learn to recognize the characters, but what about the order of the strokes? The book teaches the order of strokes. I think that's the main reason I would recommend using the book even if you can't find it online through some bodies. I think it's the best reason to use it. the book, rather than just the website, there are dictionaries and things you can find that will show you how to animate stroke order. I recommend doing it. I think stroke order is not very important for reading, but I think it has many benefits.

Yes, it's good, no, it's not too difficult, you get used to it and the same stroke order is maintained, so when you know the stroke order of one of the components, it will almost always be maintained in our characters, it is not difficult to remember. has benefits to help you understand handwritten letters. Diameter letters are sometimes a little slower, written with a single stroke, and if you have that writing practice, you can usually identify them just by imagining yourself following the line, sometimes it clicks on which character. You are written there, yes, so I think there are benefits, they are not very important if your only motivation for learning the characters is to read.

It's not that important, but it's still good to read. I did it and it benefited me at times. ways, thanks, next one, what about the pronunciation? So, at what point do you incorporate learning the princess pronunciation? What I did and what I recommend is that you learn the characters and then you still have to learn the language and match those words to the characters. It's very easy, so, for example, I started learning Chinese after I felt pretty confident with my Japanese. I started learning Chinese. I started watching YouTube videos and Taiwanese Chinese TV has subtitles all the time.

Well, it's a word I learned in Chinese that matches the The letters were instantaneous, like I saw them once or twice and then I can remember them when I see them written down. I remember, oh, this is the day, it's almost zero effort, but if you're trying to remember the pronunciation of a character but you can't. knowing which word this will appear in I think it will be very difficult to remember it is a lot of effort it is more work more than double the work remember the character on its own, especially if you are trying to learn syllables about the language you are not familiar with it, it is difficult a Once you become familiar with the language, then it is very easy to remember a new war in the language, which if it is a new language, it is a combination of sounds that you are not used to, some may seem It may sound very similar to you.

I think it's the ideal way to do it. So do you recommend starting with Hansie before actually starting to study the language? It's about commitments. I think I know hiragana katakana because I like alphabets. and I knew them before I started learning Japanese and then I started with the country right at the same time as a Japanese immersion. I don't know if there are strong reasons to delay learning kanji, yes, I think it is a strong one. It is a very important reason to delay learning, but learning them from the beginning is beneficial because you can start to put your opponent in Japanese or Chinese and your computer and start practicing character recognition, and if you live in Japan or China, it's amazing because understand what's written and you'll be the best foreigner, yeah, so I probably think there are big benefits to learning them from the beginning, also because it doesn't take long and along with you you can still learn grammar if you like that kind of thing or receive information while I was doing it so I tried using this method but I had trouble getting the character to stay in my mind, do you have any ideas as to why that might be?

I've read the forums a bit and there were comments or people who didn't like it, so my reason for people not using this reference now is that I don't like it, I feel stupid remembering stories or I just prefer to learn too. how to pronounce them at the same time because I want to know because I have a real reason of oh, I think this should be better more of a personal preference. I don't know if you want to say why you think you weren't. remembering them, I haven't figured out that case, but yes, if you want to explain more, I don't know who asked the question, but maybe, if you give me more details, I can try to guess why that might help in the In this case, did you do your Janka cards for the characters right after learning them the same day?

Yeah, so I would sit down every day and get a call from various characters that I wanted to learn and it was mostly between 25 and 50 until I got to 2000 and then more like 15 or 10 when I went from 2000 to 3000 and yeah, I I sit and instantly come up with a story or choose a story on the website and add it. I didn't mention that to my Ankita before, but I must say that there are already key tags, you can download them and then you will spend less time copying and pasting the car and then writing the store copy, writing, copying, copying and pasting the story, but I guess the stories you can you still want to choose the one you like the most so you'll have to spend some time copying and pasting into Anki, but you have your tag that already has the characters there so you can go. to Anki and look at the shared text and there are versions for Japanese and Chinese, that's just the first book or all the books, so that saved you some time if you want to do that, but yeah, I don't think there's a reason. to learn the character first and then add it to unki some time later.

I'll do it right away. How do you check how many characters you already know? I guess that means you've learned characters for a while and don't know if you should well, I don't know the number. I don't know why you want to know the number. How many do you know if you start learning with a different method earlier, but I can assume that you may not want to? relearn the ones you already know, maybe if you're really sure you can write that character and not forget it, you can skip it when it goes into your Anki deck, even if you know the card. character and you can identify it, but you are not sure if you can write it every time or not confuse it with similar looking characters.

I would decide to break down and make up a story because this requires very little effort and is very little time. that you need to spend on any additional characters that you would just re-edit and study anyway. I'm not sure if that's the question or the reason you wanted to know how many characters you already know once you start using this method. how many you already know because you just check how many cars you have and usually when people start doing reviews their success rate getting in is like 90 to 95 so if you want to be picky you can say, " Okay, maybe I will.” I remember 1995 of this 95 percent of these sports if I want to live in Taiwan, should I learn the traditional characters right away or start with the simplified traditional ones?

It's easier to identify. I think it is easier to identify simplified forms from traditional non-traditional ones. Probably simplified. I knew Japanese and something in between for me, it's not difficult, it's like it doesn't really matter what the damage is, but if you're going to be in Taiwan, yeah, why isn't it traditional? So you can learn the simplifications, some of the simplifications for those of you who don't know, they are very systematic, so it is a part that is always replaced by a similar but simplified part and then it is very easy to clarify the characters or some of they are more simplified and must be learned separately, but I would do it.

I guess between 100 and 200 you can learn more and then you will be able to identify most of the simplified characters. Could you recommend an app that allows you to write characters and apply stroke order? I have no idea. It's not something like that. Did you want to recommend a Japanese scooter? It's great, so another useful site. Can you listen to it for the video? Connie warns. Okay, great, that's it for our time, so again, thank you very much.