chriswhizz

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by chriswhizz 13y ago
We built a new way to learn to read and write Chinese: http://whizzlearning.com Would love people's thoughts as we are currently building the next version.
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by chriswhizz 13y ago
We don't have a service component (yet) and a designer did the logo/app design so the icon/screenshots of the app was the most important to showcase. We used CloudFormation to build a Wordpress server on EC2. Then I used Appt
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Habit cues for language learning are complex and hard to pin down(whizzlearning.com)
1 points by chriswhizz 13y ago|0 comments
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by chriswhizz 13y ago
Agreed, there seem to be good decks for Anki that follow different books or courses (Skritter does this too). With regards to Whizz Learning, we definitely looked at Anki, Skritter, SuperMemo, etc. to see how they help people remember thing
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by chriswhizz 13y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification! :-)
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by chriswhizz 13y ago
Also, one thing I forgot to mention: in Chinese there are a lot of different pronunciations per character if you are talking about all of the different dialects. Most people are learning Mandarin now, but there are still native dialects in
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by chriswhizz 13y ago
You are correct that both of those are additional resources. I didn't mention Anki since I am on the fence about regular people using it. For example, I think the fact that the person has to take two thoughtful actions per flashcard re
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Five resources to use (together) when learning to read and write Chinese(whizzlearning.com)
2 points by chriswhizz 13y ago|8 comments