hello and welcome back to chinese zero to hero in this video i'll show you how to remember chinese
words easier and faster for example let's say that you're studying very hard for hsk6 and in lesson
26 we have these 52 words that you have to learn well good luck but what you don't want to do is
memorizing this by rote rather what you want to do is learn by input you can naturally remember
the word by looking at as many video clips that contain this word as possible now let me show you
how first go to the website zerotohero.ca you can do this on any browser desktop or mobile
from the home page under chinese zero to hero choose chinese dictionary right here
and from the dictionary search bar let's type the first word 默默
then if you scroll down to the video section you can see 10 video clips containing the word
more more you can watch the video clips and get a sense of how the word 默默 is used
there are two navigation bars on top and at the bottom of the video
use the top bar to navigate between different video clips
use the bottom bar to navigate the lines within the video clip
if you're using a computer you can also navigate between the video clips using the shift left arrow
key and the shift right arrow key combinations now you can see how the word more more is used
in video clips the problem is that most of the clips are songs which don't really illustrate the
word what we can do is we can tell the program to only search for video clips that are not songs we
do that by pressing the all videos button at the top of the video area then we uncheck all videos
then recheck all tv shows and close the dialog this way we tell the program only to search
for video clips from tv shows now i can see more relevant examples with the word 默默
keep doing this for the other words for example 熄灭 to stop burning to extinguish
when we're going through the examples we're looking for ones that can best illustrate the
meaning of the word as vividly as possible for example for the word 熄灭 to extinguish a fire
it's best to look at examples that have actual fires in them that can be
for extinguished this one has an actual fire burning and he's extinguishing it
whereas this one he's merely talking about extinguishing a fire but yet right and these ones
they're merely talking about extinguishing but what you're looking for are clips you can actually
illustrate the sense of the word 挪 by showing you what the meaning now let's do another example
挪 meaning to move or displace sometimes you go through all the search results and you find that
none of the results are very good so what do you do how can you get more results well you can go to
settings and then under general settings there's an option that says “limit this word in tv shows
search results (faster)"
by default this is checked
because by limiting the search results we're actually delivering the results faster
so if you want more results simply uncheck this
make sure that this is not checked and then now go back to the dictionary
now the search is much slower but you get 176 results instead of just nine results
so with this method remembering words is 挪 longer a boring task although it will still
take a long time for you to remember a long list of words and you still have to review the list
from time to time over a few days doing it this way is a lot more fun and can give you a better
sense of how the word is used in real contexts and that's it for this video in the next video i'll
show you how to manage your saved words so that you can go through your saved words more quickly
i'll see you in the next video
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