Improve Your Chinese: Vocabulary Memory Hack

You have probably heard that to achieve a basic level of literacy in Mandarin Chinese, you need to know an obscene number of characters (between 2,500 and 3,000). Additionally, you will need to know thousands of words made from two or more of these characters. Add in a few hundred sentence patterns and it can all feel quite overwhelming. Beyond using flashcards, <a href="https://medium.com/@kevinleeham/improve-your-chinese-use-java-and-itext-7-to-create-study-sheet-pdfs-a9dec0bcf0f1" rel="noopener">study sheets</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/@kevinleeham/improving-your-chinese-build-an-audio-quiz-using-ffmpeg-say-and-bash-on-your-mac-bc741f1ec629" rel="noopener">audio quizzes</a>, you should also be using mnemonics to help you remember particularly confusing or challenging vocabulary. <a href="https://kevinleeham.medium.com/improve-your-chinese-vocabulary-memory-hack-9b88c6e546d3">Learn More</a>