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

[@pabloroman1]

I'm the presenter! Let me know if you have any questions. Answer this comment, since it's the only way I'll get notified.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

why don't you write up a small summary? i don't really wish to watch you 44:00 for information which I could learn by reading in probably about 5 minutes.

[@pabloroman1]

@@QuizmasterLaw Actually the presentation is quite dense with information. You can't really learn all of it in 5 minutes. Also by watching it you'll practice learning some characters and you'll see that it actually works, and reading a summary won't do that for you.

[@Virusnzz]

are there any optimal settings in terms of how you use anki?How many repetitions for new cards, etc? What is the reason behind showing the word first? Am I supposed to just try picture the character in my mind after being prompted with the word?

[@pabloroman1]

I didn't change the defaults in Anki for the interval of repetitions. The reason for showing the word first is that experience shows that it works both for recognition and for production, however showing the character first works for recognition, but you'll have a hard time producing the character from memory if you are not used to doing the step keyword->story->character. You can just picture the character in your mind as long as you make sure you go through every primitive every time. If you find yourself slacking off or would like to get practice to be able to write the characters fluently I recommend you write it down once, or use the whiteboard function in Anki on your phone.

[@Retroexperto]

Is there a site like Kanji Koohi also for Chinese Characters. I find it difficult to think about a story thousands of characters. How can i think of thousands of stories within such a short time?

[@jakyshu8798]

I was so proud of myself and when I learned how to write 我 😂

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Me too lol hahahahah 😂 to

[@siart2001]

Same😂. I have been self-study for two weeks. Now I know how to write 0-10, I, you, he, she, it, sorry, hello.

[@fusion9619]

I still can't even write that one... I can type it though! 我 God bless whoever invented the mobile pinyin keyboard...

[@milkrock.]

Yo. Forreal. This hit home 😂

[@semi-automaticdooropened9007]

I can write those letters with stroke order: 鷹 愛 人 我 馬 國 中 他 是 你 好 But they all look ugly when I write them :^

[@MrsKoldun]

3:53 As for Chinese, 2000 characters is the absolute rock bottom to not be considered illiterate (as a native speaker) and the minimum characters you’ll know after finishing high school would be around 3500-4000. Most people with a higher education fall in the 4000-6000 range. While 3000 is ok for starting off, it is not nearly enough “to read anything”. For example the last Harry Potter has 3221 unique characters. The widely popular 天龙八部 has 4118 unique characters. Plus knowing characters won’t help you when it comes to the tons of cultural references and a lot of Chengyu or premodern interjections. Knowing characters is only the beginning, keep pushing forward! :)

[@rlouie05]

4000 characters? Wow. I learned traditional Chinese for 8 years and never even realized it’s 4000 characters that’s the goal towards the end!

[@its_lucky2526]

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

[@sasino]

@@its_lucky2526 why do people keep asking this instead of doing a quick Google search 笨蛋

[@kanzouu]

@@its_lucky2526 this is quite late, but we use pinyin! it's essentially the "romanized" version of chinese, mimicking how it would sound in english.

[@its_lucky2526]

@@kanzouu ok thanks

[@marktwain368]

Pablo, you are amazing and have an ability to teach with humour and insight. Thank you from Canada!

[@muhammadjonismailov6196]

Pablo brother thank you very much. Currently, I am living in china and this methods works well. I understand that. Thank you for amazing presentation and sharing your experience with audience. Good luck!

[@4goode1234]

Thank you my friend, this is so helpful, truly. It feels like the video with the informarion that really stands out from the rest, that gets me inspired and interested to start. The best motivation since its interesting

[@powerrising4933]

as a Chinese,I will forget some characters sometimes because i use computer and phone too much.

[@phucanhtran1980]

Can I ask you something? How much words do I need to master in order to read web novels casually?

[@linhdanluu7992]

@@phucanhtran1980 same goal same question:D

[@MrLuca998]

@@phucanhtran1980 i rode few days ago that a scientist or a university professor knows about 20'000 characters, but you can understand pretty well everything around you with "only" 2000 characters, for example, an avarage 6 years old chinese kid knows 200 of them

[@its_lucky2526]

I also have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

[@its_lucky2526]

@@NowhereBeats ok thank you

[@limedwardster]

Alphabet T(tree) equivalent to 木。Eg 森林(forest), 木头 ( log) 木材(wood) , 木板(wood plan), 树( tree)

[@theablack6600]

What I think is, just try to learn 5-10 characters everyday, and how to write them. And see where you'll be in a year☺

[@theablack6600]

And it's always better to look up the correct way to write them, because truth is, it's easier to write when u see the correct way, and you're less likely to forget that character

[@Pyro-Moloch]

so, it's been a year. How's it going?

[@nicoleraheem1195]

​@@Pyro-Moloch For me, I haven't progressed

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

Sorry to interrupt this space. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Each Chinese character pronounces one syllable, and each character has meanings. Chinese primary school pupils can easily learn 3000 characters, which cover 99 percent of Chinese characters in newspapers and books. Chinese is 30% faster than English in conveying information.

[@charlesmorris3888]

*Sees video about learning Spanish in two months* Me: That's nonsense. Can't be done. *Sees video about learning 2,000 Chinese characters in 50 days* Me: Exactly what I've been looking for.

[@uditkarode]

For some reason I've never liked learning kanji with mnemonics. If I can get access to what the kanji actually meant or what the story behind it's creation is, I like using it to help my memory but using completely random stories that have nothing to do with the creation of kanji feels... strange. I guess I'll just not rush it and take a year or two more instead

[@MrLuca998]

I agree with you, i'm learning chinese by two months and i prefer to use the method you mentioned

[@TravelingWithKiwi]

Not to mention, using story and mnemonic is actually make the work doubled. Better using spaced repetition system ;)

[@randomchina6982]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3STq4uKaraAqc0

[@sasino]

To me the best method is writing not the individual characters but entire pages. Just find reading material online and copy it to your notebook with your hand. You'll learn writing reading and pronunciation at the same time without having to remember extra stories

[@Jimserac]

Then the book you want is "2000 Kanji" by Father De Roo. The mnemonics are all based on the original meanings of the characters which he researched.

[@trianglestomache6353]

Learning 2000 chinese characters in 50 days is very possible , if u have about 10 hours per day, but almost impossible if u only have 1 hour per day , unless if u have special photo memory ability

[@nicoleraheem1195]

❤

[@OneDerscoreOneder]

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[@luismanuelvelazquezmejia2619]

How to start or where I can find Chinese characters to learn?, please.

[@markmerric1344]

By far the best method to learn writing Hanzi, I remember by speaking coach saying always follow the greatest example of teaching when speaking - use parables. Pablo's method takes this concept to characters. Before using this, I used simple one sentences to try to remember characters, this worked better than anything I had seen in class, Rosetta stone, Pimsleur, learning radicals. By increasing my one sentences to related stories, incredibly increased the ability to remember the characters. I wish I had come across Pablo's video ten years ago!

[@fac2]

Great video. Wish you had a hands-free mic, though (hahaha). As a trainer, myself, I felt the inconvenience the hand-held mic represented.

[@erikako1030]

Thank you for the informative video. I was shocked by me remembering all the chinese words you showed in the video without actually learning them. I’ll definitely try this way in my chinese study.

[@joelthomastr]

1:04 "Many people are afraid of East Asian languages and most of the time it's because of the script. They learn that they have to study thousands of characters and, yeah, that can be really scary. But with this talk I wanna show you that... *it's not as scary as it should be* xD I know it's a slip of the tongue but it was just so funny! Joking aside, thanks very much for this video!

[@randomchina6982]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3STq4uKaraAqc0

[@yosephlupu-kk1he]

I studied Japanese for one full year in tha University, and we studied all three styles at the same time, and it wasn't that easy...many hours in writing...however, after I heard your recommendation, I thing that your way is the best one. I now study Chinese, and I really feel that your story system is the best one. 👍

[@cmmndrblu]

The thing is this works as a foundation, but it's for remembering to read and write and a rough meaning. Sometimes the meaning in use is different for example 角 doesn't mean "safe" it means horn/angle/corner basically "thing that juts out." I learned to passively recognise thousands of characters but now I really need to be able to write them better so am going to try this out

[@killexpert5095]

Why'd you need to write them?

[@joakimandersson1809]

Hi!! , can anyone anser me. Where do i find ANKI for chinese. Link Please. ❤️❤️🖐️

[@taram4826]

Pleco?

[@jennyleesiewmee7664]

What is ANKI?

[@taram4826]

@@jennyleesiewmee7664 ankiweb.net/ - it's an open source flashcard app where you can customize your own flashcards. Pleco (www.pleco.com/) is a dictionary/OCR Reader/Flashcard app specifically for Chinese

[@Aries61]

Why no verbalizing of the character names and sounds?

[@tamarad.5952]

Thank you for this information.

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Here is another video clip for characters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5qraWiYmNmgkM0

[@tamarad.5952]

@@dr.gaosclassroom Thank you! It's super useful.

[@sultansa1733]

27:26 bout Chuck Norris' round kick is so funny) lol

[@catarinatang980]

Hahaha being Chinese who doesn't really know much Chinese characters... I've learnt Chinese numerous times on and off since I was a child, but I've never managed to remember much. I think the idea of memorizing thousand of words is too daunting therefore I've always made excuses for not learning it fully. Now, I want to finally conquer this and found your video here. It is indeed so much better. Will definitely try the website mentioned. Great thanks so much!

[@randomchina6982]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3STq4uKaraAqc0

[@SoySauceAndroid]

Hey if you're still learning Chinese, check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpW5cqitp8ynrdk

[@felixjancik6401]

i can follow him because i am familiar with what he wants to say. still good resources, though

[@edwardlim4553]

How do increase Chinese vocabulary. Eg 木 (symbol of wood) add stroke to make a new word 木，木，木，木，木 Answer below 米，林， 村，材，未， 本

[@learnchinesewithlily9717]

First of all, Japanese and Chinese are two different language families. I don’t like him constantly confusing the audience’s cognition. The study of Chinese characters emphasizes the trinity of "sound", "shape", and "meaning" to help learners truly understand the meaning of Chinese words. The Chinese character "learning method" in the video will only waste valuable learning time for learners. It is not very helpful to master Chinese. In addition, he mentioned that the pronunciation and writing of Chinese characters are not related to the Chinese language. A large part of Chinese characters are "phonetic characters" 形声字. The systematic study of Japanese is another matter. I would never recommend my students to use this "method" to learn Chinese!

[@jirafey_]

So i shouldnt watch this if i just started like 6months ago

[@JordaNobody]

You can easily learn to speak chinese and be illiterate in the language. They are all different skills and ive meet multiple people (non-chinese) who have used this method and recommend it as well.

[@sasino]

I'm studying Mandarin now, and I've studied Japanese around 7 years ago. I've studied kanji the heisig method back then, and it works to learn lots of characters, however it's a wasted effort because you don't know how to read words which is what matters the most. Learn words, you'll also learn he characters they're made of. Right now I don't remember much of Japanese because I used that method to learn around 400 characters but then I quit studying and left the actual language learning behind. The only useful skill I got from that is that I can easily write any new character after shortly looking at it due to my mind breaking it down into radicals.

[@ovrskr]

​@@sasino Yes I agree with you, the Heisig method is a bunch of nonsense. Doesn't teach you the actual language, doesn't teach you useful characters, the order of the characters is nonsense and the keywords are nonsense.

[@ayusasnimunte6224]

It's a very interesting lesson. Can you please put the link of the book here especially traditional Chinese

[@languageslearning6282]

I Learn This language past two years so you interested with his chat with me what's up number 8081508310

[@ApollonianShy18]

Characters like characters. But how to learn them and be able to link naturally to the sound they make & the right tone(s)

[@akilabessad5332]

There's a KZbin channel called blueprint Chinese I guess , they put a video in which they explained how to use a mixture between the Marilyn method ( used to remember the prononciation) and the hs method to memorize the characters, they have a website in which they teach Chinese however it's not free so I haven't really fully explored it yet

[@kennethnagle8552]

Great presentation. After watching your video I feel as though I could learn Chinese as well.

[@ourblurs]

did u learn chinese?

[@japanesereadingandwriting]

Thank you!

[@ojonasar]

For large “it was this big” after the fish that got away.

[@timcrnkovic8991]

The problem for Chinese learners with the Kanji Koohii site is that it does not follow the RSH or the RTH books. Some of the keywords are different and the ordering is considerably different. So it's a big problem to try to follow along in Heisig's RSH book while using this site. I agree with Heisig's method but I gave up on Kanji Koohii and just use a good Anki deck that follows RSH exactly instead.

[@abdulazizsayed5464]

Where to learn these Chinese characters?

[@christopherbowen2547]

Why do these guys take so long to get to the point?

[@jinparal7505]

probably because they never had a point. there are hundreds of videos of people using anki and the heisig method on youtube.

[@edim108]

I was a bit skeptical at first but then was the "test" part and my skepticism melted away, though not completely- still have some reservations and probably will do a bit of repetition. If anything, it'll at least make my handwriting better so either way it's a win win for me 😂

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many hours studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.

[@randythamrin5976]

Ok. Thank you, so it should be become story telling then. I will do it

[@jamaisnunca]

If you like to imagine a lot this is probably one of the best method de facto

[@mikedaniels3009]

You need to acquire, to internalise them to the core so as to be able to crossreference and teach them to others. Unless one is a genius, good luck.

[@williammonk1020]

I learned 1000 in a couple of weekends for my HSK4 exam. It took a lot of caffeine and cigarettes, and the quizlet flashcards were pretty good too. Obviously you forget at least half of them after, but still. You could easily 'learn' 2000 in a week or two.

[@radical7663]

Idiot

[@onmywaynow1508]

These stories are quiet different from the usual Traditional stories.

[@simplyandoime7344]

Lol. So true

[@learnchinesewithlily9717]

首先,日语和汉语是两个不同的语系. 本人不喜欢博主不断地混乱观众认知.汉字学习讲究"音","形","义"三位一体学习, 进而帮助学习者真正理解汉语词义. 视频里的汉字"学习方法"只会浪费学习者的宝贵学习时间.对于系统掌握汉语没有太大帮助. 另外,博主提到说汉字发音和书写没有太大关系对于汉语来说是不对的,汉语当中相当大一部分的汉字是属于"形声字". 日语的系统学习有时另一回事.我本人是绝对不会推荐我的学生利用这个"方法"学汉语的!

[@its_lucky2526]

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

[@KeevnWang]

之所以汉字学习要’"音","形","义"三位一体学习‘，就是因为中文汉字发音和书写没有太大关系，所以才要一起学。"形声字"属于基础汉字衍生部分，非常好掌握，前提是对基础的形旁声旁有了解，而这些形旁声旁本身就是“中文汉字发音和书写没有太大关系”例证

[@triedzidono]

skip to 8:00 to learn in 49 press " L " to save yet more time {{{Uuuuurr urr urr Selling books uuurrr urr " L " " L " (skips forward 10 secs)

[@TheStrataminor]

Dr Heisig's method was the only time I got to 2000 Japanese characters...nothing else really worked for me....he seperates meaning from sound...just learn meaning first,,,that's plenty to start with, learn pronunciation after you have anchored the meaning.

[@Simpleworld111]

Still couldn't figure out what r the alphabets of this language

[@3mwithjoao]

There are no alphabets for Chinese. It's a characters based language... you need to learn each single character separately. There are over 10000 characters but you only need to know about 4 to 5000 to be fluent.

[@TravelingWithKiwi]

I don't believe this method is effective on how it's advertised / claimed because all of the example on the internet only using simple hanzi character. So, how you mnemonic Hanzi like 装 or 路? Not to mention the vocabularies that formed by 2 or 3 syllables. And imagine to add up story for every Hanzi, for thousand Hanzi? It only makes the work doubled. So with any respect, I don't think so. I am sorry :(

[@daniel28527]

Thank you.. All the parts of characters represent something but many characters are so complex that it's more effort than memorizing the character's strokes and pronunciation lol. There's a reason why Chinese is so hard to learn and it's because it requires a lot of time. Plain and simple. Learning 2000 characters in 50 days is rubbish

[@baipizhu]

@@daniel28527 You can breeze through hsk1/2 and learn a few hundred characters. The introductory chinese stuff is simple. 2000 might be a bit high, but several hundred in a few weeks is definitely doable.

[@eternalmind8634]

innovative.

[@philipschuman8640]

Most comments here are myths easily debunked by the first 14 pages of Remember the Kanji. This method is quite effective (for most people) as a base, but obviously won't get you to fluency. Still, you must start somewhere.

[@howfun4032]

Good imagination you have, Chinese is my mother tongue.

[@tangtony1536]

As I know, kanji is hanzi 汉字 = 漢字 They are the same thing 😂.. And Japanese just use Hanzi simplify some hanzi or Chinese character into two groups of simplified character based on phonetic character. They are 平假名 & 片假名

[@guliyooomithooo8697]

22:17

[@456qsn4]

汉字， Chinese character

[@hrmIwonder]

Dude, once you introduced the sumo wrestler character, NO ONE was thinking sweat for the one that is clearly the sumo wrestlers dong.

[@jeremyryder7528]

太 in Chinese means "too", not plump. Strange some of the English translations of the characters

[@jufertdin3035]

he used Kanji

[@jeremyryder7528]

@@jufertdin3035 In other words, the English translations are form the Japanese, not the Chinese

[@chahmed9917]

Amazing sir. i am here in china for my master study and hsk4 is must.you made it so easy. can you please put the link of book.it will be very great full.

[@webherring]

Just think of goods as three boxes

[@ningningprecious9842]

Thank you for sharing! You did not translate the characters to Chinese words, only in characters! We also need to know the Chinese words and the pronounciation I rather do it in straight to the point drilling in one hour🤔😊🤗

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

Sorry to interrupt this space. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Each Chinese character pronounces one syllable, and each character has meanings. Chinese primary school pupils can easily learn 3000 characters, which cover 99 percent of Chinese characters in newspapers and books. Chinese is 30% faster than English in conveying information.

[@jinparal7505]

Wait did he use RTK anki? Not really revolutionary

[@sadikin3103]

Thanks Pablo... really good information.

[@gautamgulde1946]

I haven't any more information sources without iphone.I used youtube. So I can't learn chinese so fast.But I hope I can.

[@Drogobo]

It's him...

[@tedbundy5363]

This association method is as old as the grand-grand-grand mother.

[@julbombning4204]

Oye Pablo! Si no fuera por ti no hubiera aprendido el español!💘

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

13:54 I don't know many characters, but I know gou doesn't look like that

[@pabloroman1]

When I initially learned them I learned them for Japanese. The method works for both Japanese and Chinese.

[@aiko8321]

狗

[@johnnykleytonful]

@@jancovanderwesthuizen8070 I'm learning with the Chinese book. It's really useful. I'm still in the beginning heading to the first 200 characters.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Chinese has two words for dog. Quan is the character at 13:54 It means big bad dog, war dog, not a familiar animal Gou in contrast is familiar. So small doggos are gou but german shephards are quan for example.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

one of the problems of Heisig is he approaches Hanzi through Japanese. And then adds his own distortions on top of that. Inaccuracies inevitably result.

[@tangtony1536]

品 = taste, feel, consume I don't think it is good Good is 货 货品 = product 货 derived from 人，七 & 贝 人 = Human 七 = seven 贝 = shell Seven person carrying shell 🐚 For traditional Hanzi, 货 is 貨

[@ThePlataf]

It's " goods" not good. In English, " goods" means " wares", things that are sold.

[@damjanavativec210]

Im learning chinese through english translating to my native language....

[@edwardlim4553]

Alphabet y, Chinese 戈 加一些笔画变字. Add missing stroke to make more character Chinese y -戈 戈( )戈( )戈( )戈( )戈( )戈( )戈( ) 找灵感在下面。戈 are 我 找 浅成 伐减 戏 钱 战 线

[@somerandom7672]

0:34 I feel attacked...

[@BlueoceanX-kr7gn]

My goal is to learn 4000 chinese characters ❤️

[@indonesianaspie6771]

are you a male? How is it going?

[@mariajanz5637]

Hi, everyone!!! I learnt DOG with a differente character. Strange ...

[@12388696]

Problem is you'll forget them after 60 days.

[@bartholomewchuzzlewit4356]

Not necessarily, depends a lot on how interested you are when you learn something.

[@bewaryoftherabbithole8011]

对于我，虽然常常忘记了些汉字，记得汉字就不很难了，但是声调只是我最难的

[@nrishinghanandaroy9766]

Impressive.

[@tangtony1536]

树 = tree 木 = wood

[@rossli8621]

As a native speaker, I don't think “太” means "plump". In the dictionary it means high (“太空”）, utmost（太好了）, senior（老太婆).

[@kfdjhnhurjnnbjhu3ip410]

I thought 上 was high, utmost, senior

[@Somebodyintheworld44]

太陽呢?

[@noirnight2608]

And Gou is dog not this symbol am I missing something

[@its_lucky2526]

I have a question, how do you type on a keyboard? Are there hundreds of thousands of keys?

[@baipizhu]

@@its_lucky2526 You can write in pinyin。woaini becomes 我爱你。 taiguile becomes 太贵了。There are input systems as well. You can input the strokes in order and the software can narrow down the potential choices to the word you want. trying adding a chinese keyboard to your computer or phone to check it out.

[@languageslearning6282]

Ni Hao

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Learn Kangxi radicals then pictograms then ideograms then picto-phonetic characters. God is proper method so difficult? You are all making this harder than it really is.

[@dan-bz7dz]

What a waste of time. Learning how to remember the meaning of the characters is easy. Way harder to learn the Pinyin and the tones, and thus the pronounciation of each character. Mnemonics is the way to go, but not like this.

[@eduardoPicazzo]

kind of sounds like a lot of hassle. just focus and learn the f****squiggly lines. ahaha you end up doing more work with those « techniques » than just focusing and repeating like a mad man.

[@edwinwanglee]

您会说普通话吗？因为我觉得这个方法有一个问题。为一个字符创建故事没有意义。

[@GetArkd]

I dont get it. So this guy wants to learn chinese without knowing how to speak it or listen to it. Just use it as an alternate way of reading? Why?

[@hectorpg1181]

You learned 2.000 汉字 but you can’t speak a single word in Chinese… That’s something really weird, I know just 300 汉字 but I speak Chinese in a beginner level pretty well

[@QuizmasterLaw]

upload and link to powerpoint please.

[@pabloroman1]

The slides are there just as a visual support, so don't expect to understand them without watching the talk. That said, here you have them: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-VmTms4ATNQAWvUn4iU6-pajQDqnPsqhhRIUkNU2VIg/edit?usp=sharing

[@Somebodyintheworld44]

鳘翻釋

[@janwillem2691]

Clumsiest presentation ever…

[@taipo101]

Totally agree. Mumbleese at its worst

[@linceddyelobruce1537]

Please put the pinging too, thanks

[@zacharyshort384]

*pinyin :P

[@petercheung5937]

This is not the proper way to learn Chinese . Japanese using a lot of Chinese characters/words but they might not have the same meanings of that of Chinese language.

[@EricEngle-f1q]

How I made a bullshit claim based on hyperbole to attract clicks

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Spoiler alert: he seems to just present Heisig and Heisig ... sucks. Hey if you Want to learn false facts and confuse the hell out of yourself after just a few hundred characters go for it!

[@dcrock8978]

Ann Onymous Heisig has been phenomenal for me.

[@sovietwizard1620]

This is pretty stupid since he's not rememebring the meaning of the characters that come up in daily life, as well as not remebering they have multiple meanings. Another thing is that he can't even read classical chinese, so all the meanings he memorized are pretty useless without other knowledge.

[@mikedaniels3009]

Ok, we can admit that each head(=脑袋) works differently, however as a hyperpolyglot, i deem THESE videos sheer nonsense. This is like memorising the colours & numbers of studs on 2000 different pieces of LEGO w/o being able to assemle them into anything meaningful. I contend that common mortals must get an in depth understanding & knowledge & learn to use the lingo thru practice. Even if U may superficially remember the characters, U will never be able to use them correctly and fluently in 50 days, unless of course U be Daniel Tammet the savant who's brain ain't from this world. Take it from a hyperpolyglot: let the two unwise sloppy piglets AND the clever third one be a lesson to us. You cannot built anything lasting without laying & consolidating a good foundation. I rest my case. Amen.

[@spartan.falbion2761]

I found this hard to listen to because you don't know how to use the mic properly; it's one long plosive.

[@radical7663]

Ch 3000 characters - 5 months (150 days) = 20 characters per hr. 1 character @ 3 mins. This is basically the stupid crappy ‘Chineasy’. Brexit all the way

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Huxter either way yeah. I'm kinda sceptical that these characters so rapidly remember actually remain in his long term memory. You know how using memory palaces you can remember 50 cards in any given order right. But how long will you retain that cheap bar trick?

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@3hornthrasher I'm around hsk5. I don't regard this method of mass memorization out of context as any way to effectively build vocabulary and am a polyglot.

[@RyanPhung]

@@QuizmasterLaw i don’t think it’s meant to be a way to learn vocabulary right? In the video he said it’s a way to learn characters, then after that proceed with normal learning, only with a lot of characters now already familiar to you.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@RyanPhung 3000 characters in 5 months is entirely unrealistic. 1000 is possible.

[@tomasz-waszczyk]

+1 for DuckDuckGo! ;=)