Review & Fun (1)
This week, let’s review some of the characters that we’ve already learnt in previous lessons. To keep it interesting, I have decided to introduce you to “上大人 (shàng dà rén).”…
A Thematic Learning Approach – Exploring Body-Related Chinese Characters
Learning Chinese characters can be challenging due to the complexity and diversity of the symbols. One effective approach is the topic-oriented characters learning method, which focuses on specific themes to make the process…
Mastering Chinese Characters Through Radicals – Analyzing Characters with the Mouth Radical
Grouping Chinese characters with similar meaningful parts can help when learning to write them. Today, we’ll focus on characters with the 口 (kǒu) radical. The ancient form of 口 resembled…
The Best Resources to Improve your Chinese Handwriting
Writing anything down helps us to remember it better. A quick web search will yield a plethora of websites, software and mobile applications that all promise to significantly improve your…
Mastering Chinese Characters Through Radicals – Recognizing Chinese Characters by Their Radicals
This week, I have chosen a set of Chinese characters that beginners may easily confuse. In the picture below, you’ll see six pairs of characters. The symbols in the second…
Mastering Chinese Characters Through Radicals – Understanding the Three Drops of Water Radical
A radical in Chinese is a collection of brush strokes that convey a certain meaning. Radicals combine to form characters, and recognizing a particular radical can often hint at the…
Cool Chinese Character Memorization Methods
It seems like every day a new app comes out that promises to help you learn Chinese characters easily. With a growing pool of research in memory and memory competitions…
These Flashcards Might Help You Learn Chinese
If you’re learning Chinese, then there is almost no way to avoid flashcards short of enrolling yourself in an extremely rural elementary school and starting from scratch. You need some…
Top 10 Most Common Chinese Characters
There are around eighty thousand Chinese characters, which can seem daunting to new learners. However, like many words in English, the majority of these characters are not used in day-to-day…