I think I'm in the same boat as you. I've been randomly writing Japanese sentences from my immersion and practicing not looking too closely, relying on memory and other incidental strategies to strengthen my recall of the 漢字. I did recognition Remembering the Kanji (Heisig) before really starting to immerse so while they're mostly familiar to me on reading, I've never practiced producing them. In just the few pages I've done of it the individual 漢字 have really stuck. Plus, I get to use my kuretake brush pen and it's very fun to produce a page of traditional, vertically oriented, right to left column text in a running hand! It would have been a waste of time earlier but now that I'm just coming into the intermediate levels it's a real motivation and memorization booster.
She's spot on. I practiced by writing down example sentences. I never really thought of it as practicing handwriting, just taking notes. A few years later, I can handwrite Chinese.
I find that handwriting also helps me distinguish similar looking characters and more quickly notice components that help with meaning or pronunciation!
soon-to-be neuroscience PhD ? WOW, 这就厉害了有没有。I watch fountain pen reviews , and I kind of into fountain pen calligraphy， and I like learning English. By writing English words with my fountain pen , I am doing 3 things at the same time. 这样我学英语不会太累。😀
LOVE your videos. I may have missed though; what is your reason and goals of learning Chinese? I just started a beginner's class and am enjoying the challenge.
aww thank you!! one reason is that it's usually called "the hardest language in the world", so if I can learn chinese, I can do anything LOL. second reason is that my bf's family is chinese, so it would be great to communicate with them!
Well, for me in general studies I prefer to do digital notes, but I don't transcribe things I write what I understood. As for languages, I prefer to make handwritten since I have bad memorie, so I most likely will not remember how to write the words. Anyways thanks for the video, it's very helpful 💜
As long as your synthesizing and summarizing as opposed to transcribing, that’s pumping similar neural muscles! I do find that writing notes by hand in another language is particularly helpful though! Slowing down gives me a change to notice patterns with the characters!
Hi Bianca, Fantastic video by the way ! 🌈 Are you still doing 1 on 1 video Discussions for a fee ? Reason why.. I'm actually learning Chinese Mandarin and I'm also learning a bit about the Brain.. nothing major but I'm actually going in for a Brain MRI Scan for the Purpose of Medical Study to read the charts along with starting planning additional Anatomy Courses throughout the end towards starting next year. Soo !! If you are still doing 1 on 1 Video Discussions I'd be happy to pay a fee for a mixture of Questions about Chinese Mandarin and The Brain haha 😄 if not.. ignore this and I'll continue loving your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thanks a lot 🌈🌈🌈
Bianca was gonna be a physician but her handwring already looked like chicken scratch so it seemed kinda pointless and she went for neuroscience instead
@@bianca.phdinprogress You know? I have a phenomenal memory. I didn't really understand that about myself before learning Chinese, which has only improved it. Thing is, I also didn't understand, medicine requires mass memorization. Here's my problem: I'm middle aged. Studied languages allll my life. I wonder what, if anything, I could do in medical sciences since memorization is apparently so important to it? Let's assume my grades in NON SCIENCE graduate degrees were in fact stellar. I'm okay at maths. basically i was told i was really stupid so i worked very hard but never correctly estimated my own intelligence. What mid career move is possible, if any?
@@bianca.phdinprogress starting korean after learning Chinese to substantial familiarity is so nice. You don’t have to study Hanja and between English and Chinese theres a massive quantity of similar words. All you have to worry about is the grammar. Plus having a real alphabet feels like cheating lol.
Hi, English and Japanese learner here. 🙃 I just wanted to stop by and mention to you YouGlish if you by any chance haven't heard of it already. It gives you a fast way to search for words or sentences in real-life contexts spoken by real people.
I think I'm in the same boat as you. I've been randomly writing Japanese sentences from my immersion and practicing not looking too closely, relying on memory and other incidental strategies to strengthen my recall of the 漢字. I did recognition Remembering the Kanji (Heisig) before really starting to immerse so while they're mostly familiar to me on reading, I've never practiced producing them. In just the few pages I've done of it the individual 漢字 have really stuck. Plus, I get to use my kuretake brush pen and it's very fun to produce a page of traditional, vertically oriented, right to left column text in a running hand! It would have been a waste of time earlier but now that I'm just coming into the intermediate levels it's a real motivation and memorization booster.
exactly!! also a great example of changing up studying methods when you get into more advanced stages!
She's spot on. I practiced by writing down example sentences. I never really thought of it as practicing handwriting, just taking notes. A few years later, I can handwrite Chinese.
I find that handwriting also helps me distinguish similar looking characters and more quickly notice components that help with meaning or pronunciation!
Great advice. Have watched your videos since you started and they just get better with each one
aww thank you!!! trying to make the best videos as possible and learn from each one :)
soon-to-be neuroscience PhD ? WOW, 这就厉害了有没有。I watch fountain pen reviews , and I kind of into fountain pen calligraphy， and I like learning English. By writing English words with my fountain pen , I am doing 3 things at the same time. 这样我学英语不会太累。😀
such a great way of turning your interests into learning material :))
LOVE your videos. I may have missed though; what is your reason and goals of learning Chinese? I just started a beginner's class and am enjoying the challenge.
aww thank you!! one reason is that it's usually called "the hardest language in the world", so if I can learn chinese, I can do anything LOL. second reason is that my bf's family is chinese, so it would be great to communicate with them!
Well, for me in general studies I prefer to do digital notes, but I don't transcribe things I write what I understood. As for languages, I prefer to make handwritten since I have bad memorie, so I most likely will not remember how to write the words. Anyways thanks for the video, it's very helpful 💜
As long as your synthesizing and summarizing as opposed to transcribing, that’s pumping similar neural muscles! I do find that writing notes by hand in another language is particularly helpful though! Slowing down gives me a change to notice patterns with the characters!
Thanks! I just finished hsk 2
Thanks for your advice and resources
so awesomee!! Such a great accomplishment :) cheers to more progress in the future!
Lol I got told I had to type everything including my math homework in high school. So that was a relatable start to the video.
l o l how do you type math homework.... 😬
Hi Bianca, Fantastic video by the way ! 🌈
Are you still doing 1 on 1 video Discussions for a fee ? Reason why.. I'm actually learning Chinese Mandarin and I'm also learning a bit about the Brain.. nothing major but I'm actually going in for a Brain MRI Scan for the Purpose of Medical Study to read the charts along with starting planning additional Anatomy Courses throughout the end towards starting next year.
Soo !! If you are still doing 1 on 1 Video Discussions I'd be happy to pay a fee for a mixture of Questions about Chinese Mandarin and The Brain haha 😄 if not.. ignore this and I'll continue loving your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks a lot 🌈🌈🌈
Aww thank you for the comment!! Yes I am! Check out my patreon for info, but if you’re interested in just a one time thing, I can do that as well!
Bianca was gonna be a physician
but her handwring already looked like chicken scratch
so it seemed kinda pointless and she went for neuroscience instead
I actually was premed in college HAHA. why pay 400k in medical school tuition when I'm already halfway there with my chicken scratch XD
@@bianca.phdinprogress You know? I have a phenomenal memory. I didn't really understand that about myself before learning Chinese, which has only improved it. Thing is, I also didn't understand, medicine requires mass memorization. Here's my problem: I'm middle aged. Studied languages allll my life. I wonder what, if anything, I could do in medical sciences since memorization is apparently so important to it?
Let's assume my grades in NON SCIENCE graduate degrees were in fact stellar.
I'm okay at maths.
basically i was told i was really stupid so i worked very hard but never correctly estimated my own intelligence. What mid career move is possible, if any?
:)
:))
...You should learn Arabic.
definitely on my list!! gotta get through chinese and korean first though XD
@@bianca.phdinprogress starting korean after learning Chinese to substantial familiarity is so nice. You don’t have to study Hanja and between English and Chinese theres a massive quantity of similar words. All you have to worry about is the grammar. Plus having a real alphabet feels like cheating lol.
Hi, English and Japanese learner here. 🙃
I just wanted to stop by and mention to you YouGlish if you by any chance haven't heard of it already. It gives you a fast way to search for words or sentences in real-life contexts spoken by real people.
never heard of YouGlish before but I'll check it out! seems interesting!