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guardian_learningHello, 你还好吗！Thank you for coming to take a look at guardian_learning, which is a community for shared Chinese language practice.
What we do and how it works:
I post once a day with a grammar point from the HSK/Chinese Grammar Wiki list and a beginner HSK vocabulary word, along with some sample sentences from Guardian (see below) and some practice of my own.
Anyone who would also like to practice writing is invited to come by and add a comment at any time, using the grammar point of the day and/or the vocabulary word of the day, or not as preferred (basically anything related to writing in Chinese is fine!). You can also post separately to the community any time you want to raise Chinese-language-related questions, thoughts, or discussion points.
Is knowledge of Guardian a requirement for taking part?
No, not at all! This community started as the idea of using the Chinese drama Guardian (镇魂) to study Chinese. Its purpose is no longer focused on the drama (although I still use the Guardian script for sample sentences for my own amusement), so being involved here is possible and encouraged whether or not you’re interested in Guardian in particular or cdramas in general.
What level is it for?
Please feel free to comment and/or make your own posts without hesitation, regardless of what level you are at. Beginning-level sentences and questions are excellent review/practice for everybody and often bring up really interesting points and references (and even if they didn’t, so what; if they’re useful for the person writing them, that’s good enough for this community). That said, if you are not comfortable commenting, or would rather post quotations rather than practice sentences, or would rather stick to 第七天 days, any and all ways to interact/follow along are fine. No stress.
So what’s a 第七天 day?
Once a week we review the grammar and vocabulary from the week instead of adding anything new; this review day is also a chance to share songs, sayings, study tools and other Chinese-related stuff we like.
Other general notes
・There are basically only two rules as far as I’m concerned: a) have some interest in Chinese study in some format, and b) treat other people cordially. So far we’re doing just fine on both counts.
・“Chinese” here generally refers to Mandarin/普通话, but we have a few people with interest/experience in Cantonese, Hokkien etc., and if people want to talk in/about other Chinese dialects etc. etc. please feel free!
・The basic grammar points are covered in the tags; I will try to come up with a more accessible way to search for grammar and vocabulary points covered, but I’m not there yet. (The 一天一橘 tag is just me liking dumb puns; 句子 (sentence) and 橘子 (tangerine) are both juzi, although with different tones, so it's an orange a day.)
・I am very far from advanced and I don't guarantee correctness in my own Chinese, so bear that in mind.
Links
I've assembled various useful links proposed by the community under the cut here, and will try to update this regularly as more come up. Let me know if anything doesn't work!
Grammar and vocabulary sources (among many):
Chinese Grammar Wiki (source of daily grammar points)
List of HSK1 words (source of daily vocabulary words)
*The same site has lists for the other HSK levels as well. Many other sites cover the same content, I just find this one relatively easy on the eyes.
Related to guardian-learning specifically:
Search page
Tags page
Useful things posted here or here-adjacent (many of them courtesy of the excellent presumenothing)
Grammar points other than those discussed in the daily posts
Sentence-ending particles, non-exhaustive
Fun with idioms
第七天 playlist!
General useful sites:
Zhongwen extension (Firefox, Chrome) for reading characters by hovering
Google Translate ZH-EN
Readibu for adding pinyin/definitions by hovering
Dictionaries:
MBDG
Pleco
Han Trainer
Mac inbuilt dictionary app, both ZH/EN and ZH/ZH
Study apps:
DongChinese
HanBook study dictionary
Speekoo
ChineSimple
Everyday Chinese video study
Number listening practice
Freerice: Practice basic-level characters and phrases, every right answer donates 10 grains of rice to the WFP
加油吧！
What we do and how it works:
I post once a day with a grammar point from the HSK/Chinese Grammar Wiki list and a beginner HSK vocabulary word, along with some sample sentences from Guardian (see below) and some practice of my own.
Anyone who would also like to practice writing is invited to come by and add a comment at any time, using the grammar point of the day and/or the vocabulary word of the day, or not as preferred (basically anything related to writing in Chinese is fine!). You can also post separately to the community any time you want to raise Chinese-language-related questions, thoughts, or discussion points.
Is knowledge of Guardian a requirement for taking part?
No, not at all! This community started as the idea of using the Chinese drama Guardian (镇魂) to study Chinese. Its purpose is no longer focused on the drama (although I still use the Guardian script for sample sentences for my own amusement), so being involved here is possible and encouraged whether or not you’re interested in Guardian in particular or cdramas in general.
What level is it for?
Please feel free to comment and/or make your own posts without hesitation, regardless of what level you are at. Beginning-level sentences and questions are excellent review/practice for everybody and often bring up really interesting points and references (and even if they didn’t, so what; if they’re useful for the person writing them, that’s good enough for this community). That said, if you are not comfortable commenting, or would rather post quotations rather than practice sentences, or would rather stick to 第七天 days, any and all ways to interact/follow along are fine. No stress.
So what’s a 第七天 day?
Once a week we review the grammar and vocabulary from the week instead of adding anything new; this review day is also a chance to share songs, sayings, study tools and other Chinese-related stuff we like.
Other general notes
・There are basically only two rules as far as I’m concerned: a) have some interest in Chinese study in some format, and b) treat other people cordially. So far we’re doing just fine on both counts.
・“Chinese” here generally refers to Mandarin/普通话, but we have a few people with interest/experience in Cantonese, Hokkien etc., and if people want to talk in/about other Chinese dialects etc. etc. please feel free!
・The basic grammar points are covered in the tags; I will try to come up with a more accessible way to search for grammar and vocabulary points covered, but I’m not there yet. (The 一天一橘 tag is just me liking dumb puns; 句子 (sentence) and 橘子 (tangerine) are both juzi, although with different tones, so it's an orange a day.)
・I am very far from advanced and I don't guarantee correctness in my own Chinese, so bear that in mind.
Links
I've assembled various useful links proposed by the community under the cut here, and will try to update this regularly as more come up. Let me know if anything doesn't work!
Grammar and vocabulary sources (among many):
Chinese Grammar Wiki (source of daily grammar points)
List of HSK1 words (source of daily vocabulary words)
*The same site has lists for the other HSK levels as well. Many other sites cover the same content, I just find this one relatively easy on the eyes.
Related to guardian-learning specifically:
Search page
Tags page
Useful things posted here or here-adjacent (many of them courtesy of the excellent presumenothing)
Grammar points other than those discussed in the daily posts
Sentence-ending particles, non-exhaustive
Fun with idioms
第七天 playlist!
General useful sites:
Zhongwen extension (Firefox, Chrome) for reading characters by hovering
Google Translate ZH-EN
Readibu for adding pinyin/definitions by hovering
Dictionaries:
MBDG
Pleco
Han Trainer
Mac inbuilt dictionary app, both ZH/EN and ZH/ZH
Study apps:
DongChinese
HanBook study dictionary
Speekoo
ChineSimple
Everyday Chinese video study
Number listening practice
Freerice: Practice basic-level characters and phrases, every right answer donates 10 grains of rice to the WFP
加油吧！
