I began Assignment 5 and Lesson Two on March 31, 2008 and I completed Assignment 5 in only three days on April 2, 2008.
Book 3, Page 1 — Book 3, Page 36
Approximate words learned in this lesson: 350
Approximate total words learned thus far: 521
Below are a few picture examples from my notebook:
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Example 2 |
I was happy to begin learning Sound Modules because it was the first time I got to see how the word roots logic inference really worked and why certain word roots where used to infer a particular meaning! Looking at each of the 300 sound modules was like looking at a scene or picture from China’s cultural past, discovering how the ancient people must have thought and lived. It was very enjoyable for me to imagine living in those times, without the benefits or handicaps of modern technology, when the main focuses were ones of survival. Of course, along with this assignment being extremely pleasurable, I was learning many of the most commonly used radicals in the entire Chinese language and learning several of the radicals that had me baffled during G1 dissection! I decided to skip the learning of the verbal portion of the sound modules for two reasons. One was because it was not outlined in the proposal world record which I was going to claim. The other reason was because I wanted to prove that the word root system was not only the fastest Chinese learning system ever developed but also that it could be learned “silently” and outside of a Chinese speaking environment (without immersion). This point alone deserves an entire essay, however; it is one that I will write at a later date.