tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674533288609171573.post3177154136975746589..comments2023-08-25T22:42:44.422+08:00Comments on Mandarin Segments: I have begun Heisig Book 2. Kinda.Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197148648944758867noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674533288609171573.post-53877740010175946732012-07-27T21:49:12.734+08:002012-07-27T21:49:12.734+08:00Ah, and as for the brick heated bed ...
Your link...Ah, and as for the brick heated bed ...<br /><br />Your link produces these characters: 岩盤浴 in Japanese kanji, and apparently it's a spa thing. But when I look up 炕 (kàng) it gives me "kang (a heatable brick bed)" or "the brick-bed in northern China". So I'm guessing they're different, but probably linked in mechanics.<br /><br />Thanks for the suggestion!Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11197148648944758867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674533288609171573.post-11085065234734386752012-07-27T21:45:01.159+08:002012-07-27T21:45:01.159+08:00Hello Peckish
I know what you mean about needing ...Hello Peckish<br /><br />I know what you mean about needing an English dictionary at hand! (It's not as bad as it sounds, of course, but your English will definitely improve with Book 2. Mine has!)<br /><br />No, it was just one character that had a meaning with an image from the Harry Potter series. This surprised me, because I would have thought that I had come up with something Potter-esque before, but I guess not.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11197148648944758867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674533288609171573.post-64811261585462421502012-07-26T17:59:55.053+08:002012-07-26T17:59:55.053+08:00Yes even slow progress is progress. It’s good prog...Yes even slow progress is progress. It’s good progress. Slow but steady. As I said before Rome wasn’t built in a day and language learning isn’t really any different. Besides it is book 2 you’re busy with after all. So just keep at it and you’ll get there.<br /><br />Consulting a dictionary: that is definitely something that happened to me too with a few words during book 1. I actually had to install an English dictionary on my iPhone as I had to look a few words up before I could study the characters. I remember "ford" as a verb. "Hamlet". Etc. <br /><br />Yes, I definitely don’t know "flouds", nor "paulownia" nor "succor" either :). Vermilion I know as I used to do oil painting.) "Brick heated bed" – could they be referring to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganban%27yoku" rel="nofollow">ganbanyoku</a>?<br /><br />I have just one question. "And finally, I have created a Harry Potter themed image in all my Heisig work". Not sure what you mean by this? As in every character you’ve studied thus far in book 2?Peckish Laowaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995862038995768340noreply@blogger.com