User Comments - xigua2

Posted on: Learning the Lei Feng Song

urbandweller, i am native Chinese and don't like this lesson - as you can see from my comments.

Posted on: The Person Component

If you want to learn the radicals, read Fazzioli's book.

After that you may read Lindqvist's great book.

Then buy Harbaugh's dictionary or visit his website and learn the other/phonetic character parts.

And as yaq123edc wrote, confuciusinstitute.net has a great character series.

There is no need to sit in front of a computer "learning" from videos like this one - there are good books to learn from...

Just do it!

Posted on: Learning the Lei Feng Song

eight8isenuf wrote: "I love learning about the culture ..."

Well, 雷锋 and this propaganda song is "a true relict" of communism or maoism, and has nothing to do with Chinese culture.

If you are interested in real Chinese culture, you should study poems of the Tang era, like this one.

More can be found here and here.

That's Chinese culture - not a song from those who are responsible for the Cultural Revolution and the Tian-An-Men-massacre.

Just my 2 cents...

Posted on: The Person Component

Waste of time, could have been explained in 30 seconds. Why do you think this is funny?

Isn't a radical or sub-grapheme also called 部首 (bùshǒu)?

Posted on: Learning the Lei Feng Song

Lei Feng (doubt exists as to whether he ever really lived) did not commit great deeds by which he was remembered, but taught the people how to be happy with what they had, to obey the Party and to let the Central Committee, or better still, Mao himself, do their thinking for them.

The result later was the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), where everybody obeyed like Lei Feng would have done...

Sorry, but in my opinion this lesson was unnecessary. The few new words could have been better taught in other contexts.