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听写 in Context

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听写

Usage 1 - "(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise)"

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我们每天都要听写昨天学过的东西,这样才能学得更好。

English

Every day we dictate what we learned yesterday. Only this way can we can learn better.



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Comments   5

Thomas Brand

I guess the Chinese word 听写 can mean either dictate or transcribe, but in English it’s only the former. Is the translation wrong on this sentence, or is the speaker saying that they dictate what they’ve learnt to someone else?

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Mandarin Blueprint

听写 is a common Chinese study activity where the teacher reads out a list of characters and the students have to write the characters correctly. You'll probably do this too if you learn Chinese at university!

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Annette Bicknell

If a teacher simply reads a list of independent of each other characters, how does a student know which one with all the homophones?

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Mandarin Blueprint

I know, right? Theoretically, you'd be hearing characters you recently learned and that would be how you know, but to me, it seems a mostly pointless exercise.

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MB Team

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMnzklPTtAA&t=1824s

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