第四年第一天

[nnozomi]

恭喜！咱们每天都学过了三年了！万分感谢大家一起来！

Today marks the beginning of Year Four (hopefully not a bad omen, knock wood) of this community! Thank you, subscribers and commenters and lurkers and people who drop by every now and then, for being around.

As usual, we face the problem of: what next? There are still many many vocabulary words to go, no problem, but we're starting to near the end of the Mandarin Bean grammar page (maybe another couple months' worth left). Go back and review the Grammar Wiki pages? Look for a different grammar site to work through? Something else, grammar-related or otherwise? Suggestions and requests are called for. Likewise, is there anything different/new you'd like to see here in general? Let me know.

祝大家有结果的一学年！

Comments

[trobadora]

三周年快乐！

I have no new ideas, but I wouldn't mind revisiting the Chinese Grammar Wiki pages.

[nnozomi]

谢谢啊！ <3 Yes, the Grammar Wiki is always a good constant.

[sakana17]

How does time go so quickly?! Thank you so much for keeping this going!

I also wouldn't mind revisiting the Grammar Wiki pages. A nebulous idea I had was a weekly language game of some sort? Don't ask me how this would work... Something with comments, but all comments count...?

[trobadora]

Oh, yes! I especially like the idea of some weekly activity.

[nnozomi]

My pleasure, thank you for sticking around! A weekly language game/activity does sound fun; I have no idea what it might look like but I'll keep thinking about it, let me know if anything specific comes to mind.

[sakana17]

Oooo, now I'm +1-ing for radicals! It's embarrassing how I still can't remember them. 😭

Game-wise... chengyu shiritori? It could be "Bai Yu style" 😄 and not need be an actual chengyu, but a phrase or something. The post presents a phrase, and each comment comes up with a chengyu/phrase beginning with the last hanzi in the post.

But honestly, whatever you would like to post is welcome! I'm learning so much from this community!

[nnozomi]

Radicals well noted! Ooh, the Bai Yu game (as it were) sounds fun and very promising. Will keep it in mind. And thanks for kind words <3

[katja]

Maybe you could dig into Chinese characters which look similar?

Grammar Wiki sounds good too, though : )

[nnozomi]

I hadn't even thought of working on characters specifically, that's also an excellent idea! Will consider.

[profiterole_reads]

Let's just call it Year Five, like they do in hotels with their floors. :-)

[nnozomi]

I am honestly really tempted to do this lol, although it would be confusing ;)

[duckprintspress]

I love Katja's suggestion on characters that look similar. I was thinking something similar - maybe a "character of the day" that focuses specifically on a character and its core meaning(s)?

[yaaurens]

I like this idea - maybe also dig into radicals along with characters?

[duckprintspress]

ooo yes that'd also be super helpful, I keep meaning to knuckle down and focus more on studying radicals.

[nnozomi]

Character meanings/radicals is also a really good idea! as I was saying above, I hadn't thought of working on characters at all. Will consider and keep you posted.

[duckprintspress]

Thank you! Whatever comes next, I appreciate it and the work you do. <3

[nnozomi]

Very much mutual! <3