Why I deleted the pinyin field from my Mandarin Anki deck

By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on February 28th, 2013
Anki!

I deleted the pinyin field from my Mandarin Anki deck because I think I learn better without being able to see pinyin for every sentence. → Read more

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Learning facts and Chinese at the same time

By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on June 15th, 2012
"蜂蜜的成分除了葡萄糖、果糖之外还含有各种维生素、矿物质和氨基酸。" - "Apart from glucose and fructose, honey also contains various vitamins, minerals and amino acids."

Try to use Wikipedia in your target language as much as possible, and add sentences from it to your Anki deck. You learn facts and language at the same time. → Read more

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Useful Chinese learning search functions

By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on June 12th, 2012
Adding Jukuu search in Firefox

Use this page to easily add Chinese-related search functions to your browser. Includes dictionaries, example sentences and other useful Chinese learning stuff. Suggestions welcome. → Read more

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Example sentences + SRS is the best way to learn Chinese measure words

By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on June 11th, 2012
一只青蛙，一张嘴！

Adding example sentences and studying them repeatedly with SRS is by far the most effective way to learn Chinese measure words (aka classifiers). → Read more

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