Comments on: Output-Based Language Learning? http://toshuo.com/2009/output-based-language-learning/ learning Chinese, teaching English, trying to understand more Wed, 08 May 2013 17:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Biesnecker http://toshuo.com/2009/output-based-language-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-5263 John Biesnecker Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:28:17 +0000 http://toshuo.com/?p=1049#comment-5263 RE: output for learning to write Chinese, I think I’m living testament to massive reading totally not benefiting character handwriting. :$ I have found, though, that because I read a lot, and see characters a lot, each time I decide to bring my writing back up to par it’s pretty easy — like, its in there, but my muscles just haven’t been trained to produce it correctly yet.

You see in native Chinese speakers, whose lifetime (and probably daily) input is far greater than most learners, real problems with forgetting how to write characters after really very short periods without handwriting (just several months, even).

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