第二年第一百八十八天

[nnozomi]

语法
彼此, "each other, one another"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22each_other%22_with_%22bici%22
当 + X + 的时候, "when X..."
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22when%22_using_%22dang%22
X + 其中, "among X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22within_(it/them)%22_with_%22qizhong%22
subject + 这个 + category, "this X," alternately "you goddamn X!"
X + 这种/这类 + category, "the thing called X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Name-calling_with_%22zhege%22
了 after object
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Advanced_%22le%22_after_an_object

词汇
克, gram; 千克, kilogram
刻, a quarter of an hour
客人, guest; 顾客, customer; 旅客, traveler; 请客, treat someone; 游客, tourist
课堂, classroom
空气, atmosphere (air)
哭, cry
克 kè, gram; 千克 qiānkè, kilogram
刻 kè, a quarter of an hour
客人 kèrén, guest; 顾客 gùkè, customer; 旅客 lǚkè, traveler; 请客 qǐngkè, treat someone; 游客 yóukè, tourist
课堂 kètáng, classroom
空气 kōngqì, atmosphere (air)
哭 kū, cry
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

玩玩
Who else uses Anki, and what are your specific preferences? Currently I have three Anki decks going: the Chinese Grammar Wiki one (sample sentences from the Wiki), a very basic one I made for myself with HSK 3-6 vocabulary, and a listening one (sample audio sentences). (I also keep meaning to get started on tinny's Guardian ones in progress.) For all of them I’ve used grayswandir’s helpful tweak which means that I have to type in the answer on the front of the card, and the back of the card shows whether I was correct. Just looking at/listening to them is not enough. I’m always getting behind and building up a huge backlog, but they seem helpful. Next step is figuring out how to put them on my phone, oh dear.
Bonus, Zhou Shen singing Mao Buyi’s 无问, h/t elenothar.

太热了太热了，啊我死了。大家还行呢？好好生活好好保重身体～

Comments

[grayswandir]

We've already talked about Anki, but I'll answer anyway! Most of my decks are focused on Cantonese, but since the written languages are the same, I always include Mandarin definitions as well, and Mandarin examples for any words that aren't used in spoken Cantonese. My main two decks are:

1) Character recognition. The front side of the card shows a character/word/phrase in Chinese text, and the back side reveals the rest of the info (meaning, pronunciation, audio reading, sometimes a sentence example).

2) Audio recognition. The front side plays audio of a word or phrase, the back side reveals the meaning, etc.

Those decks both use the same set of notes. I also have some other, separate decks that I focus on a bit less:

3) English-to-Chinese. The front side shows a word or phrase in English, and the back shows a translation. I use this for anything I really want to know how to say rather than just understand passively.

4) Writing. The front side has audio reading aloud a character and a word/phrase for context, and there's a box for me to write the character in. I use Anki's "whiteboard" feature on mobile, which lets you handwrite on the screen. The back side reveals the character.

5) Sentence audio. The front side plays audio of a complete sentence, and the back side gives all the other info. I use these to get familiar with more complex grammar or how certain words are used in context.

6) Simplified characters. All my other decks use traditional characters, but this deck shows me simplified characters on the front, and traditional characters on the back.

7) Mandarin audio. This is my newest deck, and so far it's just audio of some simple phrases or pieces of song lyrics, since I'm trying to learn to recognize more words in spoken Mandarin. The back shows the pinyin, Chinese characters, and translation.

Pretty much all my cards now have text-to-speech audio on the back, whether or not it's on the front, because I find it helpful to keep hearing the pronunciation.

[nnozomi]

As always, very impressed by how intense your study is. (Also how much audio there is, I really need to do more of that...) I should set my HSK vocab deck to do text-to-speech, but I'd have to figure out how first. Or find one that already has it, I guess, but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible...

[grayswandir]

Am I remembering right that you're on a Mac? I don't know if any of these will work, because I guess it depends on what TTS voices you already have installed (if any), but you could try going into the Anki card browser > "cards..." and adding these codes to the front or back side, and see if any of them work...

{{tts zh_CN voices=Apple_Ting-Ting:Hanzi}}
{{tts zh_TW voices=Apple_Mei-Jia:Hanzi}}
{{tts zh_CN voices=Apple_Li-mu:Hanzi}}
{{tts zh_CN voices=Apple_Yu-shu:Hanzi}}

There are some videos on YouTube about how to add audio to cards, like this one, but they always use English voices for their examples, so I don't know if there are extra steps to actually download voices for other languages. :P (Android mobile has it built in, so I didn't have to do anything.) But it's possible that one of these codes might work without extra hassle if you do have one of them installed.

[grayswandir]

Wait, actually, it might be

{{tts zh_CN voices=Apple_Ting-Ting:Front}} for the front of the card, and
{{tts zh_CN voices=Apple_Ting-Ting:Back}} for the back (etc., for each of the voice options)

I think?? The Anki examples I'm seeing mostly have "Front" or "Back" at the end of the code, but the only places where I can find the names of Chinese TTS voices have "Hanzi" at the end. >_> It might need to be "Front" or "Back" in Anki, though...

[nnozomi]

Oh, thank you! Haven't had the chance to check this yet (busy work week) but am looking forward to figuring out if I can make it work. (And yes I am on Mac, good memory.)