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Lemmih00

Site moved to https://clozecards.com/

My attention has mostly been elsewhere but my vocabulary is slowly growing.

Lemmih10

Do you know how I can get in contact with the authors? When I try to send a message on lofter, I'm just redirected to the frontpage.

0csvoss
Yeah, your guess is as good as mine.
Lemmih00

I'm heavily constrained by what I can test/grade. Writing code to grade the correctness of my Mandarin pronunciation is hard.

Listening exercises are easier to grade and they are definitely on my TODO list.

0Aleksander
Can't you ask her to tutor you?
Lemmih10

I'm not sure how to use his comment. I do feel that I have sensible goals and I'm pretty good at keeping track of my progress. Achieving my goals requires a significant amount of legwork and I posted here to ask if there were any ways of making it a bit easier.

Lemmih00

If there's anything I can do to make your experience better, let me know.

Lemmih90

Hm, I like this. Perhaps an automated email, sent once per week, saying something like:

My goal is to pass the Chinese proficiency exam by 2017. I have X days left. In the last week I've spent X hours practicing.

I want to learn Chinese because:

  • I want to work in Singapore/China/Taiwan after I finish University.
  • I want to prove that I can learn a foreign language.
  • I want to speak with my SO in her native language.

I fear that I would start ignoring the emails after a few weeks. It feels similar to Tony Robbins' advice to keep telling yourself why you do... (read more)

0NancyLebovitz
Should you be including some work on hearing and speaking Mandarin as well as reading and writing?
1Vaniver
I suspect some of the value of these sorts of affirmations is to identify which goals you get tired of, and which goals actually excite you. (But I also don't seem to like daily habits of that variety, so it may be a personality thing.)
9ChristianKl
Instead of once per week you could send it whenever you drop below X hours of studying.
3[anonymous]
Those are good reasons (especially the last one). Keep it up.
Lemmih20

Hitting the 'escape' key is the same as clicking on 'Show Hint'. It isn't explained very well on the site; I will do better.

I agree very much with your sentiment. Once you start practicing, your hands should not leave the keyboard.

Lemmih70

Are you only interested in solid food or would you want to buy Soylent/Joylent as well? Soylent/Joylent and Meal Squares are so simple that you wouldn't need new restaurants. They could easily be sold at, say, Starbucks.

On a related note, drinking Joylent has improved my feeling of well-being more than anything else I've done. The low price is just an added bonus.

1roland
Nice! Im assuming you want to meet. If so we have to agree on a time and place now. I would suggest near the ETH at the center(Polyterrasse). Weekend or early night between Mon and Wed. What do you say?