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I use flashcards in a very similar fashion to that described in the article, and what I have found is that it is something of an art form. Done poorly, it's an exercise in rote memorisation. Done well, with well phrased and thought provoking questions, it helps you understand. Moreover, it periodically engages you with the content and key ideas.
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martalist | 8 years ago | on: A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
True that. Also, it's just a different use of tone - English uses tone to differentiate questions from statements, and to otherwise add meaning to words/sentences. There are other mechanisms for that in Chinese dialects.
martalist | 8 years ago | on: A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
Adding to the difficulty is that some native speakers will enthusiastically correct your tone by over emphasiszing and embellishing their words (with trailing tones, ah's and lah's, etc). There are some people that I simply can't learn words from because I can never pick the tone. Luckily after a while you can pick those people fairly quickly!
martalist | 8 years ago | on: A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
Registers being different levels of formality (informal, formal, slang, etc)? If so, Cantonese has that in spades.
Your answer also ignores the tonal nature of Cantonese/Mandarin. Most guides can't event agree to how many tones there are. I get by with 7, but it can range from 6 to 10 depending on who you speak to (in contrast to 4 in Mandarin).
martalist | 8 years ago | on: A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
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martalist | 8 years ago | on: What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
Still, less guns on both sides seems more likely to succeed than disarming only the police.
martalist | 8 years ago | on: What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
martalist | 8 years ago | on: What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
martalist | 8 years ago | on: What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
Weaponized AI?
> How we arrive at the conclusion that the police are the problem is nonsense.
I think the last paragraph of the article is justified:
> If there are no consequences for filing police reports that do not reflect what actually happened, expect America’s police officers to keep filing them at the current rate.