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30 days of Extreme Chinese: Day One Being a language fanatic, I want to see how much I can learn in just 30 days of intensive Chinese Language studying. For this, I am going to go cram as much as I can into every aspect of my life until I am absorbing it all in. I have only tested the language for the past couple of days, so I am starting at 0 knowledge for anyone who wants to follow along. Today I spent 2-3 hours on Duolingo (in keyboard mode,) read two chapters of my textbook, made notecards, re-wrote the notecards many times, practice some sentences and said everything I wrote/read aloud. I also went to the library and got three children's books in Chinese. Tonight, I will go through at least one book and handwrite the Chinese sentences with English translations in Chinese word-order. The reasoning for this, is to learn more grammar, sentences outside of basic-greetings, reading/writing skills, and sentence structure. One more task for the day, is to use my English-Chinese dictionary to hand-write labels for things around the house. My high-expectation goal with the books and labels, is to be able to form basic thoughts in Chinese by the end day seven. I know it is a long shot, but it is a reachable goal. One more long-term project, that I will start now, is to keep a diary of my thoughts, so that I can look over it at night and translate common English thoughts/sentences with my dictionary. I encourage everyone to follow me on my ambitious journey, and provide feedback if you have ideas of other things I can try.

Oh yeah, I have also switched to only Chinese radio, podcasts and news in the morning, so that (while I don't understand what they are saying yet,) I can hear what the language sounds like and small things like boice infliction. I am blessed with a job where I can listen to music all-day long, so I was listening to a podcast all day today.

Until tomorrow,

Andre

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that's good. just a kind reminder that: remember the strokes sequence when you write chinese character. I observed that a lot my intermediate students always write character wrong and I think if you pay attention to it at the beginning that is better than you found the problem later when you have used to it.
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good job and good luck!
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Chinese films, chinese music, chinese news, chinese tea - it is part of my life for long time. It is intesesting...no, it is exciting!!! I'm learning chinese few years (by myself) and now 3:58 a.m. I don't want to sleep, I want to know more and more about this language, about this people, about this country))) That's why you need to think, how you will stop after 30 days))) By the way, it's good for beginners to see the cartoons. For example, you can find "Pocoyo" in chinese or "大耳朵图图" have a lot of useful words.
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Very inspirational. So how long will you be spending everyday for language learning? I have a month to spare and have been thinking about doing the same thing for japanese.
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good luck guy

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