With this bootcamp, you can see how to speed-up your learning. If you can dedicate 1h30 for ten days, you will feel that your language ability in Chinese has increased noticeably, Moreover, you will have experimented how you can keep learning faster than you were in the past.
DAY 1
If you haven't watched the 20 min overview of FullChinese, you need to do that first.
Today you are going to start studying one new text in a more efficient way. Watch the following video:
DAY 2
Today, you are going to:
Review words from the previous day
Look closer at character decomposition
Look at character meaning using "Words containing..."
Flag more text
Quiz yourself again
Here is the walk-through video:
DAY 3
During this third day you will:
Re-quiz yourself
Learn about "Today's Words" and "Personal Dictionary"
Flag sentences and add a sentence to "Today's Sentences"
Quiz yourself on sentences
Do a write quiz
Day 4
Today, you will:
Write Quiz: harder but solidifies memory of text
Start Simple: Go to personal dictionary and review today's words
Adjust capacity of the words for today's words/sentences (i.e., 20-30; 15-20 respectively)
Goal: know meaning + tones of each word (take some time to complete)
After mastering some words, move those words out of today's words --> all of the words (long press on star)
listen to sentences:
(slowly, multiple, and piece by piece); change order, entire text, looping a hard sentence, repeat it
Goal: understand every sentence by using "Step by Step"(i.e., spend some time to complete)
Listen screen --> "learn" section ---> see the page
Review the text, flag uncertain words, look at sentences
Accessing the "Listen" screen on Android
deconstruct the sentences (TOTAL 1 hr 30 min Reading, Quizzing, Listening and Reading)
Day 5
Start w/ Read Quiz of today's words (remove and add mastered words to personal dict) ~20 words
Today's Sentences (deconstruct the sentences such that you also understand the parts of the sentence)
listen to them
2 repetitions per sentence (long press the play button to adjust speed & # of reps)
practice reciting and writing the sentences
Review the text (TOTAL: 1 hr 30 min)
Day 6
DAily routine:
Start in p_dict + editing today's words
Learn how to use Write Quiz
Setnences, long press play button (adjust settings), and practice routines of sentences
Listen screen: write down each sentence after hearing it (ideally going through the text periodically) ~20 min
After doing all of this, you should be familar with the text. Test yourself by reading the entire text. It should be close to perfect (take time to review again)
Day 7
Starting Routine:
p_dict -> today's words + p_dict categories (e.g., verb section)
study sentences
New feature: (Tones Practice) Look at tones (4 tones) in sequences: useful if there's a specific tone you struggle with (e.g., tone 2)
Day 8
How to use the app for class material / research
Google New York Times in Chinese and extract one article
Pull all of the text or in parts
Copy and paste what you want to read (using any method)
Click "Notebooks", create a "News" notebook, and paste the text
Title it Today's Date/ Name of Mulan
Not all features are available because the text is auto-translated (should choose which definition best fits the defition)
Besides that, everything else is the same!
Now you can start from a learning a much larger set of texts
Day 9
Start Morning Routine: Dictionary, Today's words and quiz yourself (and likewise for today's sentences)
Quiz on writing quiz for mastered sentences and even remove them
Characters Screen: HSK1 - HSK6 (Beginner - Near Fluency) ~2200 characters which is required to be mastered by chinese highschool students (A benchmark is about 3000 characters)
Read novels, newspapers, and understand most chinese texts
Start by HSK1, id unfamilar characters, and flag them, add character into p_dict and today's words
Goal: Study everything you DON'T understand; then move onto HSK2 and repeat
HSKn is understood if: Have no more than 30% of the characters flagged
Spend 30 min
Character Family Screen:
Group characters by similarity (e.g., how all the sounds are related avoid mixing up meanings)
Day 10
Easiest day (B/c already mastered all the basics)
Find the practice that works BEST for you
Goal: COMPLETE ALL 3 PRACTICE CIRCLES (~1 hr 30 min) 30 min each
You'll see massive improvements if continuously in first 7 days, + onwards