Translation: Safety Harness Belt use demonstration

90% This is satire, not that libs will realise

See my post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/204590

But long story short, most characters are like 灌, or 霞, or 请, and are made up of two halves: one half contains the meaning (氵〔水〕、雨、讠〔言〕respectively), and the other half actually tells you how it’s pronounced (although sometimes imperfectly), that being 雚 guan4 for 灌 guan4, 叚 jia3/4 for 霞 xia2, and 青 qing1 for 请 qing3

The biggest problem with Heisig is that most chinese characters have the sound built in, which makes it way less compatible with Heisig’s no sound at all method than say, Japanese.

I’ve also looked at it before, and it works fine for stuff like 上、下、旧、丸(though that last one is way too american for me to relate to, but it means pill or small ball), but for, say, 订 ding4, remembering that via Heisig is gonna be probably harder than just “言 communication + 丁 ding sound -> 订 schedule, order, set”

I’m a Chinese person who moved to the west at a fairly young age, thus basically having to relearn Chinese over the past few years. I’ve always been fluent in the language, and over the recent 2 ish years have become pretty much literate (For reference, 求是 isn’t a problem to read, apart from being dry as all hell), so I usually just refer to myself as “Native”

Man I didnt know base lemmy has (had?) a cltv. Those guys deserve to stay on reddit where they’d fit in better- oh wait

cltv got banned on reddit

The reason why China is not worse is that there’s a war going on in Ukraine and they have a more relevant big bad to go on about now lol

(Mandarin) Chinese, decently enough, and English. Having to relearn chinese was a fun (sarcasm) experience, but we’re pretty much there

Well, “relatively small” being about 2k for causal speech and texting, and 3~5k for texts, depending on the type of literature. Luckily most Chinese characters are phono-semantic, meaning one side gives a pronunciation hint whilst the other gives a meaning hint.

Oh for fucks sake again!?