Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels
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Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels
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Re: Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels
#2Super interesting. I'd love to learn Chinese and be able to do this one day: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/22/mark-zuckerber...
Though, I'm not sure reading novels like the website suggests is the right approach when starting from nothing.
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#3I'm really interested in learning chinese, and the interface here is fantastic, well done. But a project like this really lives and dies on the quality of the content, I think - it needs a good set of interesting novels to really get people engaged, and I don't think "The True Story of Ah Q" quite cuts it. Having some popular novels would be amazing. If the framework allows that to be done easily, I'm sure it'll just be a matter of time.
Nice work!
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#4Super interesting. I'd love to learn Chinese and be able to do this one day: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/22/mark-zuckerber... Though, I'm not sure reading novels like the website suggests is the right approach when starting from nothing.
Given that "Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin Like a Seven-Year-Old"[0], that's not aiming very high.
0: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/22/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-m...
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#5I studied Chinese for 2 years, and I've been searching for something like this for a while. However I think that this novel (Ah Q) is too difficult for a beginner.
I installed the "Zhongwen Chinese Popup Dictionary" extension for Chrome. It kind of works -- as you hover over characters it shows the definition. But I don't have any good content! I can't find any good beginner level Chinese stories online!
Re: Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels
#6Super interesting. I'd love to learn Chinese and be able to do this one day: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/22/mark-zuckerber... Though, I'm not sure reading novels like the website suggests is the right approach when starting from nothing.
Given that "Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin Like a Seven-Year-Old"[0], that's not aiming very high. 0: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/22/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-m...
It would be more accurate to say he speaks like a seven year old foreigner. His tones are all wrong. I think the Chinese audience is enthralled that he is attempting to speak to them in Mandarin and are humoring him- I doubt they understand what he is saying too well. That said, good for him for learning Chinese.
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#7I agree with other commenters, this is genius idea but all depends on the available content. Looking at the story, it's not interesting to me, so it'll not keep me occupied and willing to learn.
I'm searching for something like this but frankly there's nothing as far as I know. The best so far is Chinese Breeze series - example book
http://www.amazon.com/Whom-Chinese-Breeze-300-word-Level/dp/...
with stories a little, little better than usual. They, though, require that you know at least ~100 basic hanzis to be able to comfortably read. I have 3 or 4 books, I don't remember, and they are fine (just please, a little better story!) Each is around 20-40 pages so not much but kindle versions are also really cheap.
The way I worked with it, was to convert mobi to html and put on local server. That way I could use Zhongwen (mentioned by alexgolive) plugin to help me with words I didn't know.
If anyone knows something similar, please share! I love to read Hanzi, it's super fun when all the spiders :) suddenly start making sense
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#8I studied Chinese for 2 years, and I've been searching for something like this for a while. However I think that this novel (Ah Q) is too difficult for a beginner. I installed the "Zhongwen Chinese Popup Dictionary" extension for Chrome. It kind of works -- as you hover over characters it shows the definition. But I don't have any good content! I can't find any good beginner level Chinese stories online!
I had a similar problem. While in China, I bought some Chinese books for kids that had pinyin. Even then, the Chinese is filled with colloquialisms or archaic language. Stuff that is the equivalent of "once upon a time" was very hard for me to understand. There is probably a big market now for books with Chinese and English that will help ease foreigners into the language.
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#9看起来不错。有一个小问题：favicon不是一个正式的汉字，只是一个偏旁部首。
Re: Show HN: Learn Chinese Through Novels
#10I studied Chinese for 2 years, and I've been searching for something like this for a while. However I think that this novel (Ah Q) is too difficult for a beginner. I installed the "Zhongwen Chinese Popup Dictionary" extension for Chrome. It kind of works -- as you hover over characters it shows the definition. But I don't have any good content! I can't find any good beginner level Chinese stories online!
对，鲁迅的文章不适合初学者。推荐一篇散文：《背影》，作者朱自清。这是文章链接： http://www.ccview.net/htm/xiandai/zzq/zzqsw003.htm