In the past few weeks, my main strategy for learning chinese has been to saturate myself with input. I’ve been reading books, and going through lots of understandable example sentences on a couple of websites. One of them is dict.cn, which has plenty of example sentences for every word i look up, and [...]
I thought it’d be helpful for some people if i wrote out more details of my methods, so here we go. Firstly, there are many different ways to learn 汉å—, and there isn’t just 1 single way to do it. I actually like to use a combination of methods, and i hop between [...]
Lately i’ve been using a Spaced Repetition System called Anki to learn chinese. I’ve been quite impressed by the results and my enthusiasm has grown for adapting the method to other uses. Now that i’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail ;)
So, this morning i was discussing math courses with my [...]
I’ve been hunting around for sites with lots of chinese material to listen to, and i think radio canada has the best stuff so far. BBC world service had some stuff, but you need realplayer to listen and it’s broken in firefox3 beta on windows (which i have to use at work), plus all [...]
For those who are confused, this is a nerdy article about how to fix laptop hibernation on linux, specifically in the Ubuntu distribution. Just recently, i upgraded my laptop from the “Feisty” version (7.4) to “Gutsy” (7.10, referring to 2007.10), and i noticed that the hibernation feature stopped working. There are plenty of [...]
Hey all, i just noticed that i can’t get to facebook today. I was able to get there just fine yesterday when i was off in shanghai, and i’ve had no other problems since i arrived here in april, but now today it’s broken and greatfirewallofchina.org seems to agree with my assessment. I [...]
I wonder if there’s a “how to learn languages” book around somewhere? i haven’t seen one, and i’ve been mostly making up my strategies as i go. Perhaps this is a job for one of those “wikibooks” on the wikipedia associated sites. They have some for “learning german”, “learning french”, etc, but [...]
I guess i’ve been slackin on the blog lately, so i thought i should send an update. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a new programming project. It all started last week when Jon and i were practicing weiqi. We have to record the games we play with each other using [...]
I just upgraded to wordpress 2.1 (i was previously using 1.5.x). I think things are working, but let me know if anything’s broken. thanks,
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i’ve been in geek mode again lately. I recently acquired a laptop, after years of resisting, so i’ve been trying to set that up for the past while. I immediately installed Ubuntu Linux on it, and i’m quite happy with that choice. The install was a breeze, it detected all my hardware [...]