Difference between revisions of "Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Difficulties-of-languages"
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* Read webpages and find grammatical articles with the help of “find in page”, find sentences and comprehend the rules. | * Read webpages and find grammatical articles with the help of “find in page”, find sentences and comprehend the rules. | ||
== | == Classifier == | ||
Problem: | Problem: Every noun needs a classifier in some languages when counting. | ||
Solution: | Solution: | ||
* | * Write down a lot of lines of “two something”, use a machine translation to see the result. | ||
== Homophone == | == Homophone == | ||
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* Find the most frequent words/characters and write down their homophones. Practise recalling them as many as possible (except those obsolete ones). | * Find the most frequent words/characters and write down their homophones. Practise recalling them as many as possible (except those obsolete ones). | ||
* For Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Learn Han script, understand the etymology behind the pronunciations. Use the input method to see the result in Han script, which is explanatory on the etymology. | * For Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Learn Han script, understand the etymology behind the pronunciations. Use the input method to see the result in Han script, which is explanatory on the etymology. | ||
== Inflection == | |||
Problem: The conjugation and declension tables look irregular. | |||
Solution: | |||
* Meditation. Keep your focus on the patterns and think nothing else. | |||
* Mnemonic. Like [https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/images/0/05/Deutsche_Deklinationen_3.png this image]. | |||
== Logogram == | == Logogram == |
Revision as of 23:21, 29 April 2021
This article summarises things that language learners find difficult to learn as well as advice for them.
In progress.
Article
Problem: The usage of grammatical articles in different languages are different.
Solution:
- Read webpages and find grammatical articles with the help of “find in page”, find sentences and comprehend the rules.
Classifier
Problem: Every noun needs a classifier in some languages when counting.
Solution:
- Write down a lot of lines of “two something”, use a machine translation to see the result.
Homophone
Problem: A pronunciation has a lot of meanings, corresponding to different words. This is particularly often in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese.
Solution:
- Find the most frequent words/characters and write down their homophones. Practise recalling them as many as possible (except those obsolete ones).
- For Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Learn Han script, understand the etymology behind the pronunciations. Use the input method to see the result in Han script, which is explanatory on the etymology.
Inflection
Problem: The conjugation and declension tables look irregular.
Solution:
- Meditation. Keep your focus on the patterns and think nothing else.
- Mnemonic. Like this image.
Logogram
Problem: There are two sets of reading system for Han script in Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese: Native and Sinitic. When practising with flashcards, the readings for a character are too many to be memorised effectively.
Solution:
- Ignore native readings at first. When the flashcard deck learning is finished, reset it and learn the native readings in the second round.