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10-DAY BOOTCAMP

Introduction

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
  • "Store", Download "FullChinese" texts inside "FullChinese Topics"
    • Chapters will focus on vocabulary terms within a single topic (e.g., house compact)
  • Congratulations for taking our FullChinese 10 Day Bootcamp! Good luck with your chinese studies!
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