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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Does any one have any methods for learning Chinese words faster?
Any teaching tricks? I'm too busy and maybe too bored to keep reading the words over and over.
10 years 30 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
For me, the best is to use the words in real life situations; in full sentences.
Flashcards can help, but I think each time I see a new flash card, I forget one (Kelly Bundy???)
www.memrise.com does work well for Flashcards.
Have someone hit you over the head whenever you say the word incorrectly...
Reading or hearing the words doesn't work for me. I need to write the words myself in pinyin to understand, then I force myself to be into situations where I can say those words out loud, and this makes me automatically remember the words the next time.
Characters- need to learn by repetition.
Put yourself in the condition of changing job, apartment, city, and break up with your chinese GF, all at the same time. You'll learn in no time.
Forget your English, force yourself no matter where you go to only use Chinese, so your brain has to actually take learning Chinese seriously. Change the language on your phone and computer to Chinese. Maybe you normally speak English to your girlfriend, but try to force each other to talk in Chinese a couple hours a day. Basically, you have to break up with English, throw out everything you have learned your whole life, and allow yourself to only watch Chinese television, listen to Chinese music, and anything else you can do. With repetition not from flashcards, but just the standard usage of hearing it day in and day out, you'll learn more quickly than using a set of flashcards.
Also, FluentU does a great job of giving you video to listen to with real speech, subtitles in pinyin/chinese/english that can be turned on or off, and a test at the end that forces you to remember the grammar. It's a great teaching method, and much more useful once you know lots of random characters/words, but not how to use them in speech.
Learning to read Chinese has been the key to my successful Chinese speaking and memory skills. Trust me
Play games in which you have to say chinese words....you know kind of like how we teach english?
TedDBayer:
You are no more of an English teacher than I am. just keep pretending
If you plan to learn to read or write Chinese on any kind of decent level, you will probably need learn parts of characters. In this way it could be easier to remember once you find new characters.