[CN] polv's Chinese learning log

[polv]

I’ve been cracking a video of 习近平. Some skits in it use traditional characters, actually. (Not to mention YouTube platform, and using Google Translate in the platform to translate EN=>CN.)

习近平的幽默，指出习近平错误，他是什么反应？习近平教训特鲁多，习近平谈足球，习近平和特朗普｜习近平｜特朗普｜特鲁多｜李在明｜足球｜

[polv]

I’ve been watching (and cracking) a documentary about Lop Nur - Wikipedia

[polv]

I was watching a YouTube suggestion, of 11/11 but other than Pocky day. ( is 11/1, though)

中國「雙十一」購物潮降溫 消費者現疲態－BBC News 中文

And then, more on numbers.

https://www.wanglaoshi886.com/post/___127

[polv]

I was watching (and cracking) this historical footage.

1900年拍的清朝真实影像，看看当时的日子有多苦

And then this comedy one that I don’t crack much. (I am also curious about 法国)

我想在法国称帝，需要注意点什么？

[polv]

I listened to this one, about a nearby interesting country I don’t know much about, except by name.

50年前脫離葡萄牙殖民後，為何東帝汶人不想當印尼人？

[polv]

I wrote this in WaniKani Community, and I think I should also copy it here.

@polv

I started Mandarin in class, from middle school, but if I were to recommend, that would be beginner textbooks. (I don’t think I used something similar to the west, but I heard Jonapedia recommend some textbook series, Boya perhaps. For actually language learners, not natives, maybe ask NihongoLearner or catwithcookies.)

Start writing Hanzi from vocab difficulty order, not character complexity order. I’d say feigning simplicity with simple pictographic Hanzi and making it easy, isn’t the way to go far.

Typing is generally with Pinyin and without specifying tones. Some IME like Sogou allows component stacking, iirc. I used to search for some websites to create pinyin with tones.

Taiwan style typing, like Bopomofo, or being adapted to Pinyin, may be able to specify tones, but I don’t really recommend learning that. RIME IME with terra-pinyin preset is able to specify tones, but I find it buggy sometimes.

There is also this blog, though in Japanese.

[polv]

Watching a video about 海参崴, at far east of Russia

_{海参 is sea cucumber, and there is another JP name.}

半个俄罗斯的财富，都流向了这座滨海小城

And then, another one about 琉球

日本冲绳：琉球农村家庭陈设，不敢信，和中国太像了，看来真和福建36姓有关

[polv]

About Singapore

揭秘: 新加坡皇室从辉煌到绝望‼️剩70位后裔💰财产被充公, 后裔靠补助金生活⁉️

About Vietnam and China.

为什么新疆是中国固有领土，但越南却不是？统治1000多年，为什么越南硬是收不进中国版图？

[polv]

dogs and cats and

布偶猫沫沫，做狗的一天

musician

拒绝 “外国人看中国”！法国90后在昆明只当 “生活观察员”【我住在这里的理由442】

[polv]

I have been listening / reading / watching this one (and copy+write some parts) – 【論語】プロ通訳が教える「学びて時に之を習う」の深い意味。本質的な学びは“家”と“鳥”にあり？（学而時習之）

【論語】学びを「快感」に変える究極の作法｜「学んで時にこれを習う」の真実

with explanation from 蕅益法師

[polv]

I got a letter from the past.

Easy Chinese story: I got a letter from the past | Intermediate Chinese | Comprehensible input

A little change of pace

布偶猫离家出走，原因是小狗太闹

[polv]

About 学 (watched via YouTube also)

「学（學）」の語源は？甲骨文字から見えてきた「学ぶ」の本当の意味。知識の詰め込みではない深さ

[polv]

I plan to Read Every Day for this month.

				2	月
	一	二	三	四	五	六	日
#5							[1]
#6	[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6]	[7]	[8]
#7	[9]	[10]	[11]	[12]	[13]
#8	[14]	[15]
#9						[16]

Materials read

Particularly, I want to track what I read for each day, so that I can contemplate on those. Maybe picking a topic from what I listen? (albeit poor listening comprehension.) Tracking can be done footnotes in the calendar like this ^[17]

In addition, I want to avoid counting VN (though it depends); as it’s more of quantity than quality; speed rather than letting tire out. It’s also about OCR quality. _{I could devise an app with DeepSeek LLM API support for better OCR plausibility and context understanding, but making one sounds tiring.}

I notice that Natively don’t have Speak Every Day Challenge yet. I don’t think think it’s necessarily hard once you get passed the basics, but I am not used the learning style (persistent non-self-study). How many foreign language did I get passed to actual speaking and fruitful conversation?

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1. 沃集鲜_百度百科 (Marketside) from 声动早咖啡 ↩︎

2. 杭州深度求索人工智能基础技术研究有限公司_百度百科 (DeepSeek) skimming and parsing for vocab for most parts. ↩︎

3. 陈佩斯（中国内地男演员、导演，喜剧表演艺术家）_百度百科 from 297-喜剧演员为何比学者更为高尚 ↩︎

4. 露露乐蒙_百度百科 (Lululemon) ↩︎

5. 马友友（美国籍华裔大提琴演奏者、演员）_百度百科 (Yo-Yo Ma) ↩︎

6. 蜜雪冰城（全国连锁冰淇淋与茶饮的品牌）_百度百科 (MIXUE) ↩︎

7. 麦德龙超市_百度百科 (Metro AG) ↩︎

8. 咖啡（世界三大饮料之一）_百度百科 ↩︎

9. 淘宝网_百度百科 (Taobao.com) ↩︎

10. 百度糯米_百度百科 (Baidu) ↩︎

11. #139【下課時間】台湾のお札、24年ぶりのデザイン変更 ↩︎

12. 马克·卡尼_百度百科 (Mark Joseph Carney ) ↩︎

13. 瑜伽（健身运动）_百度百科 (yoga) ↩︎

14. https://book.douban.com/review/16087613/ (Arendt, Benjamin, Kafka, Proust) ↩︎

15. 黃仁勳 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 (Jensen Huang) / 蘇姿丰 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 (Lisa Su) ↩︎

16. 森林變了，蚊子的口味也變了 ↩︎

17. very interstig topic ↩︎

[brandon]

I couldn’t help but notice the top here..

@polv

Though, it seems Chinese isn’t yet a supported language in learnnatively.com, and perhaps also somehow not yet much interest…

It is, I swear! It’s just harder to do books for, since we can’t do Amazon. I’d put it after English/French in terms of priority.

You’re right though, probably not going to happen super soon

[Megumin]

And I assume you also have to do “two languages” right? Simplified and Traditional

[polv]

It’s one language, Mandarin, but can be written with a more fancy font (though rarely, differently shaped letters swapped) (when similarly shaped, unicode doesn’t reliable use the same code point, and that also applies to Kanji sometimes). On the listening aspect, there is no difference other than regional word choice.

I read both, but focusing on memorizing Mandarin with simplified characters, relying more on guessing for traditional ones. (Pleco / Yomitan can look up for both anyway.)

[polv]

I added Baidu to Firefox custom search engine. It gives Chinese results for English spelling “DeepSeek”. I disable geo location for the time being, though.

baidu search URL: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%s
baidu suggestion URL: https://suggestion.baidu.com/su?wd=%s

[polv]

I am listening to 独树不成林 recently, which I don’t really understand that much. Plus series/episode artworks are amazing.

[polv]

				3	月
	一	二	三	四	五	六	日
#9
#10						[1]
#11
#12
#13
+1

Materials read

I want to track what I read for each day, so that I can contemplate on those. Maybe picking a topic from what I listen? (albeit poor listening comprehension.) Tracking can be done footnotes in the calendar like this ^[2]

But I don’t really plan to read every day. Maybe I should try harder.

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1. 肉肉大米 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 （英语：NIKU NIKU OH!! KOME） ↩︎

2. very interstig topic ↩︎