Flickserve wrote:Transcribing in Chinese is difficult due to the different writing system.
I just started with Anki. Made a listening card that repeats the audio of a sentence about ten times automatically. You can always stop it earlier if you want or repeat audio. Autorepeating ten times saves you having to press the repeat audio.
If I can't comprehend, then I press answer and repeat the sentence another x amount of times. (also use this to shadow).
It seems to help. I load up the deck into my smartphone with the podcast which makes it convenient use at odd times of the day. Having the script is essential for the answer.
You can transcribe any language with the IPA. I would seriously recommend to any serious language learner that they learn the IPA. However, I'm not sure how useful it would be with Chinese because of the difficulty inherent in visually representing tones.
I studied the IPA for years in school, so I have that pretty well cemented into my brain and I'm not worried about forgetting it, so sometimes, I create like a "crude IPA," and I use it for a language if I don't want to be all fancy and waste time making neat little IPA notes that my professors would have approved of. Just do what you gotta do to visually represent the sounds. If you got a great system, that's great. If you're just winging it, that doesn't matter. The whole point of transcribing is to create some visual representation of what you're hearing.
It's been a few years since I used this method to be honest. I haven't really needed to. However, the transcribing part isn't super important. It's kind of like the icing on the cake. Take the stuff that works for you and do it. Don't spend anymore energy than necessary trying to do the method I described. If you feel like you're worrying more about your method of study, than you are about acquiring the target language itself, it doesn't matter if the method you're trying to implement is some "voodoo magical language learning routine," you're doing it wrong.
Listening comprehension is a real B***. Just keep hammering away. Daily listening and conversations, even short ones, once or twice a week beats this method I described here. Just keep hammering away. Good luck, and thanks for actually reading what I wrote haha.