I entered myself for the HSK1 exam in September, so I have two months to prepare. The photo shows my notes that I made today. The numbers to the left are those assigned by Heisig, on whose book I am relying to learn individual characters. HSK1 requires you to know 150 words. Most are compounds,…
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The whole thing was a nightmare.
Character of the day is rú. If you use Heisig, it is character 104. It has a few meanings but the one we are concerned with today is the verb “be like” or “be similar to”. Here is today’s sentence. It’s interesting to note that 一切 means ‘all’, ‘everything’ or, in this case, ‘the whole thing’. We…
This gentleman will pay for everything.
I’m constantly looking for ways to refresh and consolidate my knowledge of the Chinese characters I’ve learned from Heisig. I nominally know 250 but I am prone to forgetting them if I don’t study and I need to connect them to other aspects of Mandarin, so from now on I’m having character of the day…
My baboon has a new balloon.
我的狒狒有一个新的气球 Wǒ de fèifèi yǒu yīgè xīn de qìqiú. 狒狒 fèifèi, baboon. fèi – hamadryad, a mythical being that lives in a tree (lol). 气球 qìqiú, balloon. qì – gas. qiú – sphere. 新 xīn, new. 的 The possessive particle 的 de is used as an attributive. It connects the adjective 新 new to the noun 球 balloon. New-balloon,…
The Hanyu You Want 