u/dabblerx

I eat out a lot as I don’t meal prep. grab a lot of it in sandwiches from 7-11 , sukiya , subway

where would you to get protein if you eat out

what is in your shopping list for protein in supermarket?

doctor doesn't recommend supplements, so am wondering what should i put on top of my shopping list when buying food for protein when i go fairprice or giant or cold storage

what are the sites you are using?

Trying to find to immerse myself in mandarin. tried the xiaohongshu, but it's blocked outside china

Problem statement, which probably applies to most of us. this is a question that i keep revisiting. 

assuming 

1. not in mandarin speaking environment. may get a few phrases here and there if you meet someone or not

2. not exactly a full time student. time are stolen here and there when commuting, at cafes. meaning at best an hour or so

 

one, how would you create a habit, or stack multiple habits to learn mandarin at either start of the day or end of the day, or probably both. 

two, how would you then create an opportunity for the words that you have learnt to have serendipity to have chance occurrence to practice the word so it has better chance of sticking

i know we are supposed to know which are the 4 or 5 tones when speaking. but somehow i guess i didn't really memorize tone by tone of the word. more like i was immersing myself a lot on listening, and watching. but at which point do you really start to memorize when you learn a new word to practice it? 

 

for e.g. 

行人	Xíngrén

 versus

杏仁	Xìngrén

I heard HSK 3.0 will be introduced second half of the year overseas . any news from grapevine they will parallel run both

something which i always thought about, but never did really think about how to apply it.

i think this really makes sense. i am guilty of just passive listening, watching with subtitles but not really putting to practice

what technique can i use that is a easy, takes a short time and can practice every day. ideally 1-2 minutes

i find that i lose control when

1. someone gives an unreasonable request. e.g. project is already potential delay with now added scope

2. someone not practicing common sense and it affects me. e.g. asking my department to cut budget whereas others are overblowing theirs

3. someone can solve the problem but hide behind something else to shirk responsibility. like i am calling out BS

4. someone adding fuel to fire when i was in the middle of fixing a problem. like giving unnecessary comments, or "you should have done this way"

how can i create a habit, or a small routine daily to just stay calm?

let’s say I learn a new word. 否认
it would be great if I can hear the sound, hear how it is being applied, or even say it immediately to get the listening, speech part. Even better is if I can pull out short movie clips where I see this being used in context, or the few lines in a song. put aside first the reading and writing.

currently, I am only able to find in YouTube (sometimes, but I don’t want to watch 20 minutes to see that word), youglish (limited materia), songs (only some vocabulary which are applicable like relating to emotions), languageplayer (clips are too long). How do you guys do it, or is there such an application currently available or yet to be built

Entering HSK 5 level. any audiobooks i can practice listening. looking for a sweet spot where i can progressive overload that's not too hard, not too easy

- not too long. harry potter is something that is too long . romance of 3 kingdoms is also too long, with vocab that's too difficult at this stage

- a bit longer than the 10 minutes podcasts

I am still going by the sound of the words. do you start memorizing at this level if it’s a verb/noun/adj etc at this stage