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Andrew
is 7% done
Just got into another mental argument with my dad where I absolutely own my dad. Extremely non-Confucian moment.
Classical Chinese is a wonderfully interesting thing. Arguing with my dad in my head, less so.
— Dec 22, 2023 10:42PM
Classical Chinese is a wonderfully interesting thing. Arguing with my dad in my head, less so.
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Andrew
is 22% done
It looks like it’s going to take me a year to complete The Analects at this rate. Hopefully 6 months, since I’m expecting my reading speed to improve with time. But man, this stuff is hard even with a teacher to guide me through.
— Mar 30, 2024 08:17PM
Andrew
is 10% done
As with anything worth studying, you can go as deep as you want to go.
Since fluency in Classical Chinese and some basic philology is key for me, I have about 30 pages of notes on the first two scrolls/books by now. Fortunately, since I'm well acquainted with the intuition behind Chinese, this is actually the perfect level of difficulty. Not too easy, not ridiculously hard.
— Jan 12, 2024 06:24PM
Since fluency in Classical Chinese and some basic philology is key for me, I have about 30 pages of notes on the first two scrolls/books by now. Fortunately, since I'm well acquainted with the intuition behind Chinese, this is actually the perfect level of difficulty. Not too easy, not ridiculously hard.
Andrew
is 5% done
I'm reading this in the original Classical Chinese. I have decided with years of forced Saturday Chinese language school as a kid, it's about high time I tackle the Chinese classics as it was meant to be read.
I can't read this and not hear my dad. Which sucks, because reading The Analects results in me just getting mad.
— Dec 07, 2023 04:20PM
I can't read this and not hear my dad. Which sucks, because reading The Analects results in me just getting mad.
