Hitting 10,000 listening hours and 100,000 known words (Mandarin Chinese)

@chytran Thanks for the stream.

I guess one of the most interesting parts for me was your focus on looking for content with New Words and your use of the right arrow key on the browser to focus on increasing your vocabulary.

If you ever feel like it, it would be interesting if you to do a recording of you studying in real time, one at a beginner level, one at an intermediate level, and one at an advanced level. You kinda showed it at the end of your stream, but it would be good to see a recording of you really studying, instead of a mock session. That is, for a language you’ve actually never studied before, such as Thai, Latin, or Armenian, and how you’d go about it. These kinda of recordings help to pick up subtle little practices which you may never have thought were important enough to mention, just like Alexander Arguelles’ demonstration of him using Assimil (link here).

Also, it would be interesting if @steve and you could have a discussion on his YouTube channel to discuss language learning philosophy and methods using LingQ. (@zoran?)

P.S. I also would’ve never guessed you were a software engineer, as I never thought it would’ve been possible to do the sheer amount of passive listening you did in such a job.

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Thanks for watching!

I’ll consider it. That’s a great idea for a separate video. :grin:

你好,我可以将你的直播音频转录为课程,上传到lingq社区吗,如果你同意的话,我会做成课程,流传至社区,当然这需要在你同意的前提下

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可以呀。没问题👌 如果你愿意,不用问我

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That is a phenomenal amount of work that you have done. I think the Chinese ambassador in your town should hold a reception to honour you. :rofl: But seriously, I can’t imagine doing that. I do think people tend to underestimate the amount of work needed to master a language, not anyone on this forum of course.

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Can say for sure that it takes a lot of work but unfortunately the journey never ends. It’s gonna be a while until full fluency can be attained :laughing:. Thank you for your kind comment

Just watched your video on YouTube, thank you for sharing, fascinating!

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Thanks for watching buxey1! :slight_smile: