The Traditional Chinese teaching methodologu
All 100,000 Chinese characters are merely different combinations of 400 simple pictographs and ideographs (think Egyptian hieroglyphs). In order to rapidly learn Chinese characters and successfully retain them, the secret is to first thoroughly master these 400 basic pictographic components!
Our radical approach ("部首", ha ha) to quickly mastering copious amounts of Chinese characters is this: Learn the basic pictographic components 幺 艹 白 木 before attempting to the learn the Chinese character 藥.
Consider for a moment that in chemistry you learn the basic elements of the periodic table before learning more complex compounds. Similarly, in phonetic languages like English you learn the basic phonetic symbols A B C before you learn a complex word like "medicine". Our online curriculum utilizes this same logical "building block" methodology to learn Chinese characters.
( The information is from www.ABCsOfChinese.com at Youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlCJGQZkwM&feature=relmfu
Our radical approach ("部首", ha ha) to quickly mastering copious amounts of Chinese characters is this: Learn the basic pictographic components 幺 艹 白 木 before attempting to the learn the Chinese character 藥.
Consider for a moment that in chemistry you learn the basic elements of the periodic table before learning more complex compounds. Similarly, in phonetic languages like English you learn the basic phonetic symbols A B C before you learn a complex word like "medicine". Our online curriculum utilizes this same logical "building block" methodology to learn Chinese characters.
( The information is from www.ABCsOfChinese.com at Youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlCJGQZkwM&feature=relmfu
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The Story of Chinese Character: 有
有 depicts a hand holding a meat(the BuShou of 肉). Meat was valuable in ancient China, when someone had a piece of meat, he thought that he really owned something.
Now 有 belongs to the BuShou of 月, which is a misunderstanding. (info is from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684YAftJrEE&feature=fvwrel) |
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The Story of Chinese Character: 看
看 depicts an eye(目) with a hand(手) put above it, the hand prevents the eyes from being hit directly by the sunlight so we can see the object more easily and clearly.
(Info is from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oaTEA_Txgg&feature=fvwrel) |