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Weekend 'what are you watching / reading / playing / listening to?' thread #7 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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As with previous threads, the idea behind this is to have a - not quite - weekly post where learners of all levels, heritage and native speakers can post the Chinese content they have been consuming this week in whatever form. If people also give an indication of their level (or the level of content) as well it can act as a way for people to discover new content which may be suitable for them.

I'm currently going through SinoLinguas graded readers available on Pleco, the ones at around 2500 words!

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[–] Harrk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn’t know Pleco had reading material, that’s awesome! I ended up grabbing the Graded Chinese Reader - 500 words to begin with (I’m a beginner haha).

I signed up to SuperChinese a few days ago so I’m just working through level 1 lessons. It’s a bit dry to begin with as I already have some foundational knowledge though. I’m using that alongside Hanly and Du Chinese in my daily routine. However, I feel like Hanly is making me overwhelmed with too many similar characters all at once. So I might slow down or try another method if that doesn’t change.

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

They do! I bought the whole SinoLingua bundle and I can definitely recommend it. Much nicer experience than their own ebooks, especially as you can look up words on the go and you don't have the pinyin interspersed in between the sentences. Keep up the good work :) If you're having trouble distinguishing similar characters I'd recommend you to try learn how to handwrite them. You don't need to learn how to handwrite everything, but it can help being able to break down some characters and recognize the different components. Even if the characters are similar, the radicals often give a good hint on what meaning the full character have.