A Chinese homeschooled learner’s showcase
In another article, I mentioned that my Chinese handwriting was not very good. But it wasn’t just my handwriting, my Chinese speaking and reading skills were not good either. Why? Because after I dropped out of school 5 years ago, I focused all my attention on English; which did pay off considering I am writing […]
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When I type, I look at the keyboard and pick out the keys, pressing them one by one, it was fairly slow. I was writing a lot on the computer, taking notes, writing emails, etc. And I wanted to be efficient, so I wanted to practice my typing. There are a lot of resources, APPs, […]
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When I want to write something; English or Chinese (It doesn’t matter), I don’t usually “write”, I “type”. Even though most writing nowadays can be done on the computer, Writing with pen and paper is still as important. The last time I really practiced my Chinese handwriting/calligraphy is when I was 7, after that, I […]
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We (Nicolas, Cassie, and I) call it the “Mars Project”, but in reality, it has nothing to do with mars. This is the first of many projects, with the end goal of making a video game. To make a video game, one must first learn to make a video game… And to learn to make […]
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I want to get better at writing articles and stories in Chinese. And the only way to do that is to practice and actually write! Doing things you’re not good at isn’t enjoyable at all. So I decided to start by writing only one article/story/whatever with at least 200 characters every day. My goal was […]
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I practiced my English writing a couple of different ways these years. I started writing a novel about super-intelligent pigs, did writing exercises, read textbooks… This year, I took a different approach, my method was to first read a news/magazine article, and then write my own version, describing the same things. After that, I would […]
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Around Fall this year, Nicolas, Cassie and I went on a road trip from Beijing to Suzhou. It would take about 13 hours to drive there, so we stopped in cities along the way. Sleeping challenges First, we arrived at Jinan, it took about 4 and a half hours… I sat in the front seat, […]
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I finished Middle-School Math about 2 years ago. Why am I reviewing it? 2 years ago, I finished what should have taken 3 years in a few months. My learning strategy is to learn it quickly, but I’ll forget about it really fast, and when that happens, I’ll learn it again, faster than the last […]
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One of my dad’s friends is making an underwater goggle that can record, so when you dive, it records first-person footage. He wanted to make a video promoting at a crowdfunding event called Indiegogo. He wanted to make the video in English but he wasn’t good at it, so he reached out to me for […]
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I can write English, but not very fast, my handwriting also looks like the handwriting of a 3rd grader. If I wanted to improve my handwriting and my speed, I needed a plan. So I looked into online resources and books, I couldn’t find any good exercise sheets that I can download and print, so […]
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