Personally, I have mixed feelings about this strategy because sometimes it can be very difficult to find a way to meaningfully link a character to a phrase in my native language. However, when you do find a solid mnemonic device, it can be extremely effective in helping you recognize the ch...
The building blocks of Chinese, part 1: Chinese characters and words in a nutshell– This is an introduction to the whole series and includes some advice on how to learn characters as an adult. The main point here is that Chinese characters aren’t pictures and that you as an adult learne...
Many students think that Chinese characters are difficult to recognize, memorize and write, especially when you are a beginner. It is essential to understand the basic knowledge of Chinese characters in order to master Chinese...
When starting to learn Chinese characters, one of the first questions that pop up is how to learn them. I don’t mean what characters to study, how to make sense of Chinese characters or principles for stroke order, but what to do as a beginner to learn your first characters. When lear...
More logical in Chinese, the creature is appended to the mouth radical. Thus we have 吠, 喵, 咩and鸣respectively.Chinese characters are actually very easy to recognize and write once you break it down. Can you guess what the modern Chinese characters for the pictograms in the picture?
characters we want for us as long as we can remember how they are pronounced.Since we enter different characters,we seldom need to be able to recognize the difference between characters in detail;the computer makes the right choices for us.Do we really need to write Chinese ...
• Exercise your brain to visually recognize form and function in Chinese characters instead of an alphabet • Better understanding of Chinese culture Many learners may think that if they know pinyin, they can type the characters they need into a computer keyboard. However, even learners who ...
The other thing to say is that it’s much easier to recognize characters than to write them. Learning to write Chinese is a long process, and it is easy to keep forgetting the characters, so accept that and don’t let it worry you. ...
“carriage”. If you only know pinyin, there are six characters marked as “mǎ”; it will be hard for you to figure out which one is relevant. As you see, you will be able to make out Chinese words when you can recognize the characters. So I suggest you learn the characters from...
Learning to read and write in Chinese is particularly challenging because elementary grade students are expected to learn, recognize, and write thousands of characters (the basic linguistic unit in Chinese). Recognizing Chinese characters or words made from a combination of characters provides access ...