Hi every one,
As many I'm struggling with learning tones in Chinese. I have never cared about it when learning, always thought it would come naturally with practice, but it didn't. Now I find myself being able to write and read quite ok, but when talking it sounds funny for locals.
I've given a thought to what would be the fastest and laziest way to catch up with the tones of all these characters. And it comes to my mind that it would be quite easy if I could related the tone of a character to each others by relying on my visual memory.
Which means simply by making 5 lists of characters, each list listing the characters of a tone.
However I know approx 2k characters now so it would take a while to do manually.
Do you guys have an idea how I could easily sort them? There must be a way to easily batch this, maybe there's a "Chinese characters database" I could query.
As many I'm struggling with learning tones in Chinese. I have never cared about it when learning, always thought it would come naturally with practice, but it didn't. Now I find myself being able to write and read quite ok, but when talking it sounds funny for locals.
I've given a thought to what would be the fastest and laziest way to catch up with the tones of all these characters. And it comes to my mind that it would be quite easy if I could related the tone of a character to each others by relying on my visual memory.
Which means simply by making 5 lists of characters, each list listing the characters of a tone.
However I know approx 2k characters now so it would take a while to do manually.
Do you guys have an idea how I could easily sort them? There must be a way to easily batch this, maybe there's a "Chinese characters database" I could query.