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Notes on reading Chinese.
Practical notes on reading Chinese, remembering vocabulary with spaced repetition, and learning characters in context, from the team building Ember.
Reading with pinyin, and learning to read without it
Pinyin above every character is a gift at LV 1 and a crutch by LV 4. Ember lets you take it away one text at a time.
How Ember decides when you see a word again
Four honest buttons and a scheduler called FSRS. Here is what happens after you press one.
Why Ember starts with reading
A word you met in a story you cared about is a word you keep. That is the whole idea behind Ember.