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Improving every day. Keep it going!

Who wouldn't want to be that guy?

Sounds like this is last weekend to buy the old course before the big changes they say are coming

Hi seabolt. so great to see an update.

The course looks so good to learn from, unfortunately it's so expensive for a student and they don't have alipay or wechatpay 😢😢

Hi, thanks for this video. I can imagine better what is inside the course and I really like your comments on this stuff. I like you gave us your personal opinion and what you think about this whole course and type of learnig. Thank you!

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I enjoyed this. I am now at level 17, so it is good to see what is in store for me.

Johnathan, Great Job!!

Good on you mate - still keeping it up?

After watching all those chinese youtube videos, do you plan on watching chinese shows/dramas instead? I think that would be ideal. I'm chinese and its interesting to see your chinese learning progress.

Gave you a follow on the community form!

恭喜你达到这一点！我已经学了中文好几年了，所以忘了自己当初是怎么学的。我很喜欢看你的频道，因为你的方法很有意思。对我来说，可理解性输入不仅非常高效，而且是最好玩的学习方法，没有之一。你的进步很棒，加油加油！

does this course help if I have memory problems? ;( I always forget ;( xiexie ni

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false. True tacos are hard shell ground beef with lettuce tomatoes and sour cream

I am so so sorry for your loss, I would also be distraught so I completely understand. Love these videos of your journey, thank you for sharing. see you over in the community! Shelby :)

You really shouldn't use that adblock. Ublock origin is better in every way.

Sorry to hear about your cat :/ I'm doing mandrin blueprint also. (Im on the community too) Your first review of the blueprint helped me decide to just go for it! Thanks for keeping youtubw updated!

11:58. That is truly awesome man! They didn't have to do that, but the fact that they did really shows that they care about your learning

Nice work there Seabolt! I just bought the Blueprint and currently in level 16 in day 25! The progress is crazy once we start reading the sentences. Just a question since you are at Phase 5, when do they ask you to immerse in the language? Because in level 16, we just have words in context and flashcards for it and I can read the characters without pinyin but when do I start to read stories and understand convo's?

So nice to see these progress videos! I am sorry for your loss ❤

Interesting conversation

For the writing part, my phone comes with a pen. When I'm in Skritter I'm getting that experience. It's helped so much having a deeper connection with the characters. I'm a little behind you atm. Currently I'm in phase 4, lesson 21 (again). I was here back in December, but .... a mini stroke decided to join the party. Took several month off, then started again with Pronunciation Mastery. This was a really good choice for me I think.

Very good. I just started adding LingQ to my daily reading of Mandarin too. I have been reading/audibook "The Journey to the West" in simplified chinese by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. I don't understand all of it, but I figure it is good input for now along with my shows, Mandarin Blueprint, and now LingQ.

It is funny, and a little disorienting haha, the overlap with Japanese. I'm expecting one pronunciation, but it's different, but the meanings are the same/similar xD Congrats on your progress! :D

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Languages i will never learn: Hindi, dutch, bengali, polish, hungarian, ukrainian, hebrew Languages I would learn: Arabic, Russian, Japanese, mandarin, korean, italian

Your tones sound like they have improved a lot btw

Nice one, keep going! 加油

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Mandarin blueprint built on the groundbreaking work of James Heisig’s method. His 2 volume set of books + ANKI for SRS will teach meaning and writing of 3000 characters for a fraction of the price （about$100) then it’s just hard work. The naysayers who say reading teaches you characters is only partially true. Knowing the building blocks of the entire language has helped me immensely and I have a native speaker to listen to anytime I want - my wife. With Heisig you focus on MEANING and WRITING - not strange and unnatural pronunciations that can be learned through context of reading and listening - also there are MANY ways to voice a character (普通话 is but only 1 way)which is why I don’t waste my time on it at the beginning stage.

Saying that knowing 500 characters will allow you to understand 80% of Chinese is kind of like saying knowing 20 letters of the alphabet will allow you to understand 80% of English. Just because all of those letters show up frequently (or characters in this case), does not mean that you can understand how they work together. You need to understand words and sentences to actually have meaningful comprehension. It's just a really flawed way to say this. In reality you probably are going to want around 2k words before you can start to reach around 80% comprehension (which is still a very low level comprehension)

Really happy to see you put in the work, actually it motivates me to do the same. Well done man!

Did you happen to join the Skool community on MB?

Hi mate, been following your updates for a while. Thanks for making a video like this, gives us an insight into the MB method. I just took the MB challenge and will upgrade to the Blueprint after a few months! As we say in Chinese, 过日子 生活 并享受

Did you give up on using Skritter as the primary flashcard system? I just can’t get into Traverse for whatever reason.

Congrats!!! im proud of you

Well done! Can't wait for the 3,050 character update :D

When did you first begin learning Mandarin？ Was it from scratch， that is without living in a Chinese-speaking environment？

Congratulation to your 500 Hanzi journey!!! You might not know how good you are in Hanzi and your pronunciation too! So I am here to tell you, as a native Chinese and a mandarin teacher. Your understanding of the character is so accurate. And writing the character is definitely helpful for recognizing the character. It's just like if you never really make a cake by yourself, you will never make a good cake, even though you've watch hundreds of cake-making videos. I am so amazed by the effort and time you've invested in learning Hanzi, because most of the people would give up in the first month of learning Hanzi and feel hopeless because thousands of Hanzi would take forever to learn. But it will all worth it if you just keep it going. Because the more you learn, the easier it will get. Things will be more structured and easier to understand, and the character will offer you a new way to understand many things. Like, 城 is made of 土(dirt radical) and 成(sound radical). If you come to visit China one day (strongly recommend Xi'an西安) , you will see the defense wall that was built to protect the city, they were all made of dirt, even the bricks of the wall were made of dirt. Thanks to the defense wall, that made the city a city, not wild land, in ancient time. Ohh, and maybe my Hanzi learning experience might make you feel better... it took me 6 years in primary school to learn 2000+ Hanzi. We have writing homework in school everyday, like, to write every new Hanzi 20 times. If I made one mistake, then another 50 times. That crazy repetition made the character carved in my brain. Same as any other Chinese kid. So what I'm trying to say here is, even for native Chinese, learning Hanzi is definitely not easy. You should give yourself more credit for learning so many of them. But it would all worth it after years of practicing, especially if you are interested in Chinese history, because you can read the carving on the pottery/stone/monument/bamboo scroll that made thousands of years ago and now in the museum. Anyway, hope you have fun learning Hanzi.

Due to my busy August schedule (summer has been horribly busy for me), I stopped at level 20 for now. I just review my flashcards, watch my Netlfix with Mandarin subs, and listen to my favorite singer right now in the car. Once school starts again for my kide, then I will head right back into Mandarin Blueprint. I really want to finish my novels I bought, too. It looks like this will continue to be a fun way to learn to read Mandarin.

I started studying Korean specifically because I hated Japanese kanji but I am slowly coming to realize that although it sucks for reading a book, kanji are really good for helping you learn vocabulary. It’s like a built in mnemonic device. Now I’m going to make myself learn how to read hanja (Korean word for kanji) the Korean way. Just doing it all over again. 500 is pretty damn good. You’re well on your way.

I just made it to 500 characters too.

How many hours a day do you set aside specifically for Chinese?

i am so happy to see you visited my favorite place ever. that was our 2nd annual Sunflower festival. i want lie i kinda remember your little guy i was there working the animal barn at the festival. Please come back and visit us again for a Pumpkin Festival. its so much more to do now for him. Thanks Again for joining us

Hi, If I am watching Japanese content on my own computer using VLC player, is it possible to use migaku to copy out the Japanese subtitles and actually paste it into actual text on Microsoft word or google search?

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Hi Seabolt. Their historical note on the simplification is wrong. Simplified characters where around for thousends of years and ninety percent of them where in common use before the 1950 only a susbset of simplification was made during the 1950 to standardize simplification.