Mustafa's Death

I've been looking for some more North American movies dubbed into Mandarin to watch. The theory is that knowing the plot already will make it easier to follow the dialog.

Tonight I found a clip of Mustafa's Death (Lion King) in Mandarin. I watched it, and the dubs were really well done. So, I checked out tudou and found the full Lion King movie dubbed. It looks like it's the same as the previous clip. Just taking a quick look at it, it should be fun to watch!

Google Translate

Google translate converts my last (short) post to:

"Last weekend I go to Chinatown with my girlfriend. There are lots of interesting food. This photo is a big melon. I have not seen too much."

I'd say that's relatively accurate, except for the last sentence. Is there a better way to express "I've never seen anything so big?" than 我还没看过太大大的? I'm also not sure if 瓜 is the correct word for a zucchini, but I do think I can use it for "Squash". 茄子 is strictly eggplant, correct?

大蔬菜

上上个周末我很我的女朋友一起去唐人街。 那里有很多有意思的食物。这张照片是一个大大瓜。我还没看过太大大的。

Not much progress on new cards lately. Since hitting 500 I've slowed down a little. I'm currently at 525. Despite not studying many new characters, I'm doing more rigorous review. Trying to find time this week to fit in some new stuff.

I'm going to spend a few minutes now to label some things in my room that I don't already know the word (or characters for). I've heard this is a good method to reinforce things. I'll post back with some pictures later.

Week #11 Update

Last I posted my plan was to review for a couple of days to reduce the # of cards I had waiting for me in Anki. As of today, I've reviewed all of my phrases and am down to 138 characters due for review. It's taken a little longer than I had hoped to catch up, but it's down to something a little more manageable now. Some extra time tonight and I should be on track.

The downside to this is that I studied 0 new characters last week. I need to be better in that case. This week coming up looks to be a busy week, but I'm hoping to get back to my previous levels (about 10 a day).

Another thing I'm hoping to do is to label a bunch of things in my room with the Chinese characters & pinyin for it. This will be another way of doing some additional study.

Back at it

I'm back from a 10 day vacation that included some down time before and after - all in all it was a great break, but led to not a lot of studying. While I was away I managed to learn 11 new characters, and review some recent ones (not using Anki).

I came back to 253 characters due for review, and 107 phrases. I think for the next day I'll try and do some catch up, and then get back to regular study.

I would also like to practice my speaking & listening more - over the next few weeks I'm going to add some new things to my routine to improve on that. I'll post more and let you know how it goes.