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		<title>END OF THE WORLD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eye-grabbing headline, huh?  But, if we let &#8220;Internet&#8221; equal &#8220;World&#8221; for just a few seconds, it could be true, thanks to the Yankee governance. It&#8217;s potentially disastrous news for us language learners because all kinds of material that we use (songs and other media on Youtube, for example) might become inaccessible if SOPA and PIPA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1781&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Current French Method AND Language is a Video-Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Binge on TV, radio, songs, text-heavy games and newspaper articles in French. When it&#8217;s getting hard to work out words from context frequently, binge on adding sentence cards to Anki, supported by dictionary definitions. When you&#8217;re producing sentences that are almost grammatically correct, read up and practice French grammar on that area. Rinse and repeat. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1778&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Like What You&#8217;re Used To&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;so doing something is the same as enjoying it, which is also the same as getting good at it. That is all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1775&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Streamlining</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longish post this time (it was meant to be short), covering how far I&#8217;ve come on the various projects that I&#8217;ve been working on over the last year or so&#8230; Reading Chinese So&#8230; I finished reading my second full-length Chinese novel while I was flying back to the UK.  From start to finish, I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1770&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opinions about Language Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I kinda regret publishing this post since, as a commenter noted, it&#8217;s weak&#8230; while I could hold up my hands and plead irony, I don&#8217;t think that would be very convincing even if it was the original intention. Also, the punchline &#8220;it’s my opinion and is therefore valid&#8221; was not what I meant when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1760&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mandarin or Dialect?</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/mandarin-or-dialect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s safe to assume that there&#8217;s a generally held opinion that learning Mandarin is easier than other Chinese dialects. Some people might perhaps hold that this is simply incorrect received wisdom; that all languages are equal in difficultly, that all languages should take the same amount of time to learn.  That Mandarin, specifically, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1758&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>中文：The Grand Checklist</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-grand-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy-hoy mateys! Something I&#8217;ve been wanting to do for a long time is a comprehensive list of the various things that need to be conquered for people that want to learn 中文 to above and beyond native level. I&#8217;m going to assume that natives generally know Mandarin and a dialect, which I think is probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1754&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished Business</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/unfinished-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate loose ends, so I just deleted my two other blogs: Cantonese Language and Guide to Manglish.  Neither of them were going anywhere, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a great loss.  On the off-chance you were looking for them, you&#8217;ll now know where they&#8217;ve gone. I want to/intend to create more learning materials for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1750&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairyland</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/fairyland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/?p=1744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick news flash to all the people out there who have this vague notion of second-language mastery: If you&#8217;re going to learn a language, you&#8217;re going to have to work damn hard.  This is harder than anything you&#8217;ve ever done before.  You&#8217;re going to have to use a dictionary every day.  You&#8217;re going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1744&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cantonese Characters Reborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, for those of you that aren&#8217;t aware, it&#8217;s possible to write down Chinese dialects other than Mandarin using characters specific to that dialect.  Much like dialect spelling in English, it&#8217;s not necessarily apparent to an outsider how to read them. Here&#8217;s a random selection of Cantonese ones, courtesy of HouHou: 嗰、噉、咁、嘅、㗎、啦、喇、囉、呢、咩、乜、嘢. They&#8230; are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1737&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Cantonese Class Specification</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/advanced-cantonese-class-specification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hour-long class per week, five sections for each class, each totaling 12 minutes: Revision of material from previous class and analysis of written passages submitted as out-of-class work. Reading of a Standard Chinese passage (e.g. newspaper article or novel excerpt) using Cantonese readings, with corrections from the teacher as appropriate. Discussion about said passage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1730&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cantonese &gt; Mandarin: Tones</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/cantonese-mandarin-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick table of how tones generally map to each other between Cantonese and Mandarin: Cantonese Mandarin mā mā má, máh mǎ ma, mah mà mà má (I haven&#8217;t used tone numbers because it&#8217;s impossible to visualise the difference between two Chinese languages if all you can see are digits.) Notice how both Cantonese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1723&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Important Things You&#8217;ll Ever Buy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/the-most-important-things-youll-ever-buy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;are right there, in the picture above.  Not my foot, that&#8217;s not for sale.*  You MUST have headphones and a smartphone.  Eldon Has Spoken. Why? Because, we&#8217;re learning a language, dammit!  We&#8217;re going to do a truck-load of listening, and we&#8217;re going to be actively learning and revising on the go. Whether you&#8217;re commuting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1718&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Phone = Smart Learner</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/smart-phone-smart-learner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it would be&#8230; difficult to argue that technology hasn&#8217;t had any impact on the domain of language learning.  Oh, sure, a hundred years ago (or whatever) you could just go to the country and talk to people the whole time to learn your language of choice to fluency. But nowadays, that&#8217;s not so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1711&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going from Cantonese to Mandarin: Any Trouble with Tones?</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/going-from-cantonese-to-mandarin-any-trouble-with-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time required to find a simple, English-explanation-free video about Mandarin tones: five minutes. Times required to learn how to say the four (five) tones of the language accurately from memory: four minutes. It&#8217;s not like Cantonese and Mandarin tones are especially similar, but I guess my mind&#8217;s more receptive to the idea of tones now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1705&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the best kind of SRS card to use?</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/which-is-the-best-kind-of-srs-card-to-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very cool person named Timo mentioned to me recently that the method I use for learning Cantonese &#8211; especially regarding SRS use &#8211; isn&#8217;t what you might call crystal-clear. And that&#8217;s a failing of mine. My excuse is that, well, I&#8217;m always experimenting with different techniques and that the posts on SRS use so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1690&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cantonese Maths</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/cantonese-maths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all have to do some maths sometimes, because we all use money, and money is numbers. So, here&#8217;s how to do some basic maths in Cantonese. No translations &#8211; you can work out what each word means from the numbers. 8乘6等於48 20乘2等於40 8乘8等於64 8減6等於2 20減2等於18 42減24等於18 8加6等於14 20加2等於22 30加8等於38 8除4等於2 20除2等於10 40除4等於10 乘 sing4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Language Learning: Vocabulary Associations</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/language-learning-vocabulary-associations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cantonese example sentences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nouns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When starting a new language, we can identify certain things that we should prioritise learning. Probably the most important thing is concrete nouns and simple action verbs &#8211; things that we can practice every day just by walking around. Many language learners might start off with simple vocabulary lists of things to learn.&#160; For Cantonese, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1660&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Active Recall Flashcards (They Really Work!)</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/active-recall-flashcards-they-really-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloze deletion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning vocabulary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Front: Sentence with a word clozed out Definition of clozed out word Back: Complete sentence Jyutping This forces active recall of words in such a way that only one answer is possible and doesn&#8217;t require a lot of time to set up. Give it a go! P.S. This is kind of a follow up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1656&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Music Practice</title>
		<link>http://eldonreeves.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/the-key-to-music-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eldon Reeves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we are all well aware, while they&#8217;re useful, practicing scales, arpeggios, dominant, major and minor sevenths, inversions thereof and so on is not terribly interesting.&#160; It&#8217;s the musical equivalent of grammar study &#8211; devoid of context. Personally I find it much more fun if there&#8217;s a backing track playing.&#160; Youtube helpfully has many such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eldonreeves.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12208106&amp;post=1650&amp;subd=eldonreeves&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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