Learning Chinese by learning the I-Ching

[jago25_98]

Are you learning Traditional Chinese?

I thought it would be fun to combine this with I-Ching readings.

The question is how to do this efficiently, stay focussed and keep it fun.

Here are some ideas. Can you help me find the resources to make it happen?

1) Find a reference book with side-by-side translations of the castings but cast with an app in English.

2) Cast with an app in Chinese but read the interpretations in English

3) Do it all ONLY in Chinese and look everything up in a dictionary. Speed the whole process up by doing it all online and using a hover-to-lookup browser dictionary extension


Literal translations as well as full translations are useful for learning Chinese.

 

[bradford]

Download this. See Volume 2, the Matrix translation and the Glossary.
The hermetica.info site also has a Laozi.

https://www.hermetica.info/Yijing1+2.pdf

See also http://grichter.sites.truman.edu/files/2012/01/yjnew.pdf

 

[Pineapple]

Hi, I know this is a late response but I am new here. I am also interested in learning Chinese, in large part to study the I Ching further!

One resource is the Yi Jing app for iOS (subtitle is “I Ching - The Book of Changes”)—it does cost, I think it was 7 USD one-time cost. This app is impressive with the ability to switch between several versions or translations while keeping a reading open, and one of the versions you can choose is the Chinese text. So you can cast in English, then switch to the Chinese text after you’ve saved your reading. It is easy to toggle between versions.

Chinese doesn’t come pre-installed, so if you do buy the app, go to the library tab on the bottom, then the “store” menu on the top left, and scroll down until you see the Chinese version. You can then click install, for no extra cost unlike some of the other books, and it should immediately show up in your library and be available to toggle.

There isn’t a dictionary or side by side, but the fact that it’s so easy to toggle and it automatically attaches to whatever reading you have open is great!

 

[surnevs]

On #2, the translation I've saved if interested: HERE. The grichter.sites.truman.edu has unfortunately been removed. Unfortunately, because his translation is the pinyin/English translation of the received text (See: https://www.biroco.com/yijing/zhouyi.htm) strictly holds on to the word-by-word and nothing more.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210401144813/https://grichter.sites.truman.edu/files/2012/01/yjnew.pdf

About & translations: https://web.archive.org/web/20120801010948/https://grichter.sites.truman.edu/

 

[tacrab]

The easiest I Ching to use is https://ctext.org/book-of-changes which has Chinese, Legge translation, and dictionary built in. (Watch out though--any kind of online dictionary, will in general mix modern and classical definitions together.)

If you are more of an aural learner, you can also listen to videos that chant, read, sing I Ching material (trigram names, hexagram order, text). I've got links to a number of these on my website under Chinese Language Resources. (Watch out for the trigram song! It is hard to get it out of your head.)

Here is a link to a great online to Classical Chinese course, free. If you're curious about the language, this will give you good footing in how it works.

Introductory Observations of Classical Chinese – Introduction to Classical Chinese

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