#I'm also considering doing hsk6 next February or so to have a longer term go

[meichenxi]

Chinese update: I’m doing the HSK!

Hello!! I haven’t been doing much recently, and in order to remedy this - and for many real life reasons that may or may not have anything to do with completely neglecting Korean and also low-key going insane out of boredom but being too tired after work to do anything involving creativity - I have decided to put myself for HSK5 in July!

It’s soon enough that it feels real, but not too soon that I don’t have time to get better. I haven’t done past the first quarter of the actual course but I know considerably more words than that. I am fairly harsh with considering whether I ‘know’ a word or not - if I get the tone wrong or don’t know the character, I mark it as unknown. I’ve finished going through the HSK5 list on Anki, and I have around 300 ‘unknown’ words - probably a third to a half of them are fully new. 

(The process of being confronted with new words then reading the individual characters by their phonetic components to have a guess at what they could be, only to realise I know the word and that’s how you write it - it still feels bizarre every time. It’s very good practice for character recognition.)

The hardest part of the HSK for me is reading, and...wuxia stories won’t necessarily help. I’m considering getting something like Du Chinese on a short-term basis to help me with the intensely and horrifically boring necessity of reading short texts about fossil fuels or workplace culture. Sigh. I’m also using SuperTest - previously HSKOnline - which is one of my favourite apps for Chinese in general and very good for HSK specific testing. 

Anyway. May I get a decent mark to prove on my CV that I can vaguely speak Chinese and also may the mindless but stimulating act of clicking ‘next’ on Anki save my mental health etc etc

#meichenxi manages #langblr #studyblr #chinese langblr #chinese studyblr #I just...*shakes brain like cereal box* #so exhausted after work and I also only have ten minutes between classes which isperfect for cheeky anki #and not enough for anything else #I'm also considering doing hsk6 next February or so to have a longer term go #but have no idea if it will be still going or phased out by then #it's only another 2500 words < she says NOW