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UPDATE:  I've been taking Chinese again for about a year now and I visited China last summer. It's been great catching up on the Chinese I used to know and also, finally learning how to read in Chinese. It's a challenge, but it's great fun, also.

Quizlet is my new favorite tool. I type in a whole story in  Chinese sentence by sentence. After each sentence, I pick out the words that are difficult or might need more isolated study. Then, I click on the audio and run through the cards in order showing only the Chinese. If I don't understand something, I can repeat the card or flip it over to get more information about the English meaning. So far, it works great! The audio on Quizlet is good (though not perfect - for example, they pronounce 长 wrong in one of the stories I've posted).

If anyone lives in the Greater Seattle area (better yet, Olympia) and you're interested in joining a class where we read and study these stories, please comment. The teacher is great - we meet once a week for an hour and a half.

Also, if you're interested in teaching Chinese, are a Chinese/English translator, or are studying Chinese, let me know as well. I'm interested in forming an online group.

海萍 Haiping  (Ms.W)

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I started learning Chinese many years ago when I taught English in Taiwan. I learned to speak and understand Mandarin Chinese, but my reading and writing was very limited. I started learning traditional characters first and then later I learned a few simplified characters. My reading and writing has never been great, but I'm trying!

I'm back in school again now and taking a beginning Chinese class so I can get a good grounding in the characters and remember the Chinese I learned way back when in Taiwan. I've only recently learned how to type in Chinese and that has been great. It really helps me learn the characters, but I'm VERY SLOW! I will eventually write this "about" section in Chinese, but don't count on it being soon because I'm a bit of a procrastinator.

By the way, this blog is to help me learn characters in whatever way I can. I'm not promising any kind of formatting or consistency with it, but if it helps you as well, then great!

I've just figured out how to use Twitter (yeah, I know, I'm a bit slow) so I'll attach my Chinese-practicing Twitter account to this blog. If you want to practice Tweeting in Chinese, say hi to me there. OR, if you are Chinese and you want to correct or clarify what I've posted or written in Chinese, feel free to comment. I'm all ears. (That means I'd love to hear - or read - what you have to say.)  

On TWITTER  I am "weihaiping."

衛海萍