It is unfortunately common for some people to say learning characters is easy, "Just look at 大, see it looks like a man with arms out". The truth is that there are different types of Characters, and their distribution in the language is not equal. The 3 main types are Pictograms (representing a picture), Ideograms (combining pictures or words like 明 for bright), and Phono-semantic compounds (combining a sound hint and a semantic hint). When you look at the distribution of these indicated by Wikipedia you see Pictograms 4%, Ideograms 13% Phono-semantic compounds 82%. This means that comparatively few characters can be "understood" in the simple sense of meaning or pictures. The majority of characters will need to be learned by brute memory, and like the poster here implies many people resort to elaborate memory techniques to remember them through stories or associations. I guess my point is, don't be fooled by the first 4% of easy picture characters. Learning characters is a practice of will and memorization.
Thank you! I was feeling the same way. Though the part with understanding each segment of the character still holds true. Sometimes the meaning of it isn't that clear, if there is one at all, so you have to make up some REALLY elaborate stories. But if it's more elaborate, but at the same time more funny, it will stick.
as a chinese I have practiced writing characters for 6 years in elementary school, the only method used in school is homework. teachers let students write 10 time for every mistake after ever test in ever day.
Omg yes!!! I’ve been looking at programs like Chineasy which makes it seem like pictogrammes and ideograms are the only characters. I’ve been trying to learn how to read for years and the only thing that has ever worked is memorization. If you know a better way please let us know!
While I do agree with your post, I think in general this video is trying to explain that learning the radicals for characters will help you immensely in memorizing them. As he said in the video, it turns the characters from a jumbled mess of lines and shapes into something you can make sense of and understand. For the 82% of characters that don’t look like what they’re supposed to represent, you can create your own meaning for them by combining the radicals in your head to tell a story. Memorizing by brute force will only get you so far. You have to be more creative than that, especially if you don’t live in the country and aren’t exposed to those characters daily
I bought a booklet of algebra graph paper - the ones with REALLY small boxes. Every day I fill in one line, devoting each page to one character. I’ve notice repetition every day helps better then filling in one whole page in an hour. So far this new method is working better.
Thanks again for your hacks. I followed your hint by adding colours to my flashcards associated to the different tones! That worked so well for me; very nice!
Neumonics is the key to all learning! I find the logic of Chinese characters very fascinating! I think the Chinese characters are to be taught at all schools since it develops the brain.
Errrr, school sucked already the way it was. I can't imagine being forced to memorize chinese characters that most students will most likely never use in their entire life.
I have just now discovered your channel, as a predominantly English speaker, yet Chinese American born with some conversational skills. I do much your video, and most eager to catch up on your entire series. I compliment you on how clearly and concretely you teach me how to recognize meaning in calligraphy, a point not taught me, or I didn't absorb by Chinese School, as a child. Plus, the books to aid learning you provide are most invaluable; and I very much thank you. GDL
I am a Chinese and I actually learn from the video, there are some good points that I've never realized when I learned Chinese in school as a kid 20+ years ago. For example, part of the character represents the meaning and the other part represents the pronunciation.
Hi, i need help, which part of the character represents the pronouciation?, this would help me a LOT with learning. Thank you for your probably upcoming answer
@@nanuk1334 it depends... Even native speakers sometimes see characters that have not seen before, we try to guess what it would sound based on the parts in a character. There's no fixed part in character that resembles the sound
Are you kidding me? Where do you live? And how long have you lived in China. How can you say such a thing? It means that you don't even know the basis of your language. I had a Chinese teacher who didn't know how to write many characters because he always lived abroad and he was very lazy. You must write every day.
Hey dude! I finally found this video again! A year ago I decided to get Zhang Laoshi's books because of this vid, and I have to say learning the characters the way you describe, through having a glance at their history/context, was the best Mandarin learning decision I've ever made. I've still got a long way to go but I'm working at it :)
mmm actually I had pretty much the same ideas as yourself. A lot of non Chinese speakers won't even try to learn to read of write and many times I have explained to them that if you look at the picture for e.g. gau meaning high it's pretty self explanatory. I've also suggested integrating geometry into their learning and when you put these characters into a compound you quite often get parts if the Zhuyin alphabet which can help. But ye , I think the book idea is really great so thanks and connection with the multiverses or universal mind, collective consciousness or whatever are really important. Synesthesia
I am Malaysian I go Chinese school and I can speak quite fluently but memorizing is just not my thing,but this video helped me alot!Thanks for posting this
Most characters have a 3 line story attached. You approach an island (at sea, not in a lake or river): the first thing you see are birds flying over "the water". The closer you come a mountain rises out of the water. That: is an island. Pretty awesome video!
You got me laughing like crazy when you shared that story. It reminds me how I used to do that with Spanish and the weirdness gets you remembering it and coming back for more.
@@ChineseIsEasy Yes. Just like when I saw someone with a Chinese tattoo that said 屁股和奶子 on their neck in the library. (I am serious though, someone did have that tattoo on their neck).
Look, draw a few times, wait a few minutes, draw it again a few times, wait, draw again. Then an hour later. Then the next day. I do this in groups of 10-20 characters.
I write them down ten times the first time using different colored pens. Then twice on the succeeding days. I don't personally assign any specific color to the tones because they change according to the words beside them.
For those don't like to write Using tooth- pick sticks to form 人‘ after that add a small stick 一 to 人 became 大 Add 二 to 人 became天 . Add two small sticks to 大 became头....买卖 灾火🔥火灭灾火土 太犬 头. From 人 ，move two sticks apart became 八入 then bend two sticks became 儿, add a small piece together to form 又叉 又 write using two u, u and add l, 出 凹 巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣 尺层.using handphone software, as long write 70% similar word will appear
MrPigpigeon, thanks a lot. It's good to be back. I apologize for the delay, I've been distracted with my day job. More videos are coming out this week. So stay tuned ;)
Just want to put up something i've learned after being tasked with copy editing a research proposal regarding difficulties in Chinese learning experienced by ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. Apparently according to the research proposal, Chinese children in Hong Kong are expected to take the entire primary school period of 6 years (6 to 12 years) to recognise about 2600 Chinese characters to be considered literate and cope with daily life. From my personal experience with my children, Chinese children in Hong Kong learn how to read and write basic characters as soon as they start kindergarten at about 3 years age. So there you go, if you want to be on par with at least a child who has finished primary school, you will need to be able to read and write 2600 characters.
how do you memorize 1.2.3.美國統治時期,華人的生活比較安定,原因; 只要華人守法,就不受壓迫。 美國官員比較廉潔,華人都能安居樂業。 美國在菲發展交通,開發資源等計劃,對華人商業有利。 美國是新興國家,對華人的居留,不會感到威脅。 華人對菲社會的貢獻; 華人與菲人結婚,中,菲混血的人,社會地位較高。 華人經營商業,從事工業和農業,對發展社會經濟,有很 大的貢獻。 食、衣、住、行方面,有不少是由華人介紹來的。 菲國國語中,也很多由華語來的,如豆干,豆腐,白菜, 麵線,燒包及燒賣等。 西班牙統治時,起初為什麼歡迎華人來菲?後來為何又屠殺華 人? 西班牙政府初期為了開發資源,鼓勵商業,需要中國的貨物、 勞工和技術,所以歡迎華人來菲,後來怕華人與菲人連結起來, 反抗政府,所以有屠殺華人的事件發生。in one day
Flashcard them up. Look, cover, write check. Write out multiple times. The brain remembers in vibrant narrative stories, so try to weave the vocab items into a story in your mind. Test yourself after 1 hour, 2 hours etc. Then again the morning of the test. Get someone else to test your flashcards if possible. Read them out and play them on your iPhone if you're an aural learner. It's a challenge but definitely doable for a smart little cookie like you ;)
I kinda feel it's a LOT worse. Since you are then missing out on a lot of studying opportunities. For example: Practicing exercises in workbooks that gradually remove the pinyin. Having subtitles to aid you if you fail to get the meaning in a C-Drama. Or simply reading books in chinese.
Chinese Is Easy Im a beginner. Starting from 0. I know nothing about Chinese but I need to pass Hsk level 5 exam in a year. It that impossible please help! 😂
Thank you for recommending the Ms. Zhang book. Do you know if the other books of Ms. Zhang are also pretty good? I see they have characters to words. And a workbook, too.
Yeah, check out Tony Buzan's study skills. They literally changed my life. I remember all long numbers (bank cards etc.) as words and images now thanks to his Master System
Fantastic teacher, enjoyable to watch, but I’m afraid I don’t agree with the reinforcement of the myth that radicals on the left give meaning. The Pleco dictionary add on from Outlier Linguistics taught me that. For example I just learned in the word Chengdu 成都, within dū 都 the component in the right means city, the component on the left was once a sound component.
It’s great that you are starting to learn Chinese in 5th grade, I would recommend you to stay in Chinese through middles school and high school. I have been on Chinese since 6th grade (now in 8th) and have been studying it a lot, and Chinese is a great language to know for job opportunities and etc. and since your starting at an early age you have a lot of time to learn. (Also Chinese is not as hard as people make it seem) and I know you didn’t ask me this but I thought it would be a good idea to be dedicated to learning Chinese early
@@unlimitedmotivation__ actually i’ve been learning chinese my whole life.. the thing is i still can’t get my chinese better.. i can speak chinese well. i’ve passed on chinese ^^ but i can’t get it to the same level as how i should know chinese
@@GhostAlliums oh ok, well that is even better, when you say you speak Chinese well do you mean that you can read any Chinese pinyin in a breeze or pinyin and Hanzi? If you can then I would practice memorizing vocabulary that either your school or you want to learn, then you can use that vocabulary in a ton of different sentences. And every sentence will be different because you are using the verbs and nouns you learn from your vocabulary.
Hello, thank you very much for sharing your technics. I use exactly same method to learn japanise Kanji and not decided to apply same method to learn mandarine. Can you please share where can I learn more about your second method using radicals. It is very interesting. Thank you!
Y'all I'm a Chinese native and we have to memorise a whole ancient Chinese paragraph every week like this long 慶曆四年春，滕子京謫守巴陵郡。越明年，政通人和，百廢具興，乃重修岳陽樓，增其舊制，刻唐賢今人詩賦於其上。屬予作文以記之。(具 通：俱) 予觀夫巴陵勝狀，在洞庭一湖。銜遠山，吞長江，浩浩湯湯，橫無際涯；朝暉夕陰，氣象萬千。此則岳陽樓之大觀也，前人之述備矣。然則北通巫峽，南極瀟湘，遷客騷人，多會於此，覽物之情，得無異乎? 若夫霪雨霏霏，連月不開，陰風怒號，濁浪排空；日星隱曜，山嶽潛形；商旅不行，檣傾楫摧；薄暮冥冥，虎嘯猿啼。登斯樓也，則有去國懷鄉，憂讒畏譏，滿目蕭然，感極而悲者矣。 Not even kidding and it's harder to memorise because it's ancient Chinese and it's different from the one we speak with. So that's why Asians are smart lmao
I have mandarin oral test tomorrow, and the following day, i have listening and writing test💀 The thing is i can speak well but not fluently, and im struggling to recognize some hanzi. It's been 6 months since im learning mandarin. So it's kinda difficult for me but this language is interesting!
I study sign language. Many of the written languages are phonetic-based. Is it possible to read Chinese fluently without knowing spoken Chinese language (Mandarin or Cantonese)?
It would be nice if the book you're recommending were still in print. It is nearly impossible to find! Can you perhaps recommend another, more easily accessible book?
do you also have some scientific archaelogical video that shows how did they found out the ancient etymology or shapes etc, or these are also reconstruction guess works. and how long does it go back in time?
Memorizing is always easy! If you read something it is easy. But writing is always difficult - auch wenn man in der eigenen Sprache schreibt. (- even if you write in your own language)! If I enter Chinese text with the help of a computer, then it is not difficult to write a correct text - but if I do this on paper from my memory, errors often occur or my head starts to strike.
If you want learn chinese, you don't need to learn chinese characters. You can just learn pinyin, it's Latinized Mandarin, everyone can read it in China.
I found that pinyin is at least as much a hindrance as a help. Not only does it mean learning two languages rather than one, the letters and letter combinations aren't always pronounced as one instinctively pronounce them as a native English speaker. Which is very off-putting. One can only assume it wasn't developed for language learning but more likely for coping with Chinese characters when inputting into tech. That's my guess anyway. To be really useful for language learning one would need tweaked local versions that correctly indicate local pronunciation. Even then you'd still have to make those connections to the real characters.
@@WideCuriosity pinyin is designed for Chinese to learn Chinese , not for foreigner. The history of pinyin is very short, just about 60 years.The pronounce of A~Z in pinyin is quiet different from what in English. If you want to learn better , the first thing you should do is to forget your English.
I'm just starting out and I like your videos! I'm inspired! Were you concerned with stroke order from the get go when drawing the characters out to memorise them?...it's overwhelmingly slow trying to incorporate that aspect into the learning process!
Thanks! And no, not too much. I tried to keep the basic rule of "left to right and top to bottom" in mind. You generally get a feel for it. And over the years Chinese people pointed out the odd character where I'd got it wrong. It might be slower, but to me any other way is incomplete. If you want to build a solid wall you can't just lay bricks and then "maybe" go back in put cement in later. IYSWIM!
I'm a nepali and I speak cantonese fluently I'm just 10 years old but I dont really know how to speak chinese and I am really bad at reading cantonese and writing so in my diction its really hard for me
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It is unfortunately common for some people to say learning characters is easy, "Just look at 大, see it looks like a man with arms out". The truth is that there are different types of Characters, and their distribution in the language is not equal. The 3 main types are Pictograms (representing a picture), Ideograms (combining pictures or words like 明 for bright), and Phono-semantic compounds (combining a sound hint and a semantic hint). When you look at the distribution of these indicated by Wikipedia you see Pictograms 4%, Ideograms 13% Phono-semantic compounds 82%. This means that comparatively few characters can be "understood" in the simple sense of meaning or pictures. The majority of characters will need to be learned by brute memory, and like the poster here implies many people resort to elaborate memory techniques to remember them through stories or associations. I guess my point is, don't be fooled by the first 4% of easy picture characters. Learning characters is a practice of will and memorization.
Thank you!
I was feeling the same way.
Though the part with understanding each segment of the character still holds true.
Sometimes the meaning of it isn't that clear, if there is one at all, so you have to make up some REALLY elaborate stories.
But if it's more elaborate, but at the same time more funny, it will stick.
as a chinese I have practiced writing characters for 6 years in elementary school, the only method used in school is homework. teachers let students write 10 time for every mistake after ever test in ever day.
Omg yes!!! I’ve been looking at programs like Chineasy which makes it seem like pictogrammes and ideograms are the only characters. I’ve been trying to learn how to read for years and the only thing that has ever worked is memorization. If you know a better way please let us know!
Thanks for sharing this info I didn't know about it
While I do agree with your post, I think in general this video is trying to explain that learning the radicals for characters will help you immensely in memorizing them. As he said in the video, it turns the characters from a jumbled mess of lines and shapes into something you can make sense of and understand.
For the 82% of characters that don’t look like what they’re supposed to represent, you can create your own meaning for them by combining the radicals in your head to tell a story. Memorizing by brute force will only get you so far. You have to be more creative than that, especially if you don’t live in the country and aren’t exposed to those characters daily
when you write 2 pages of the same character but still end up forgetting about it
:*)
Write it more then! XD
I bought a booklet of algebra graph paper - the ones with REALLY small boxes. Every day I fill in one line, devoting each page to one character. I’ve notice repetition every day helps better then filling in one whole page in an hour.
So far this new method is working better.
Write many characters every day in a set of phrases.
Write 109 pages more then
Thanks again for your hacks. I followed your hint by adding colours to my flashcards associated to the different tones! That worked so well for me; very nice!
D T that's awesome mate, I'm very glad to hear it. Keep up the study!
Neumonics is the key to all learning! I find the logic of Chinese characters very fascinating! I think the Chinese characters are to be taught at all schools since it develops the brain.
Errrr, school sucked already the way it was.
I can't imagine being forced to memorize chinese characters that most students will most likely never use in their entire life.
I think you mean Mnemonics.
@@ericthered2963 TRUE and u have my support for ur opinion cause i learn chinese at school and oh boy its mother ****
I have just now discovered your channel, as a predominantly English speaker, yet Chinese American born with some conversational skills. I do much your video, and most eager to catch up on your entire series. I compliment you on how clearly and concretely you teach me how to recognize meaning in calligraphy, a point not taught me, or I didn't absorb by Chinese School, as a child. Plus, the books to aid learning you provide are most invaluable; and I very much thank you. GDL
Thanks so much for your kind words Sir 🙂 Welcome to the channel. I hope you'll enjoy the coming content.
I am a Chinese and I actually learn from the video, there are some good points that I've never realized when I learned Chinese in school as a kid 20+ years ago. For example, part of the character represents the meaning and the other part represents the pronunciation.
Hi, i need help, which part of the character represents the pronouciation?, this would help me a LOT with learning. Thank you for your probably upcoming answer
@@nanuk1334 you can look at how zhu yin works
@@nanuk1334 it depends... Even native speakers sometimes see characters that have not seen before, we try to guess what it would sound based on the parts in a character. There's no fixed part in character that resembles the sound
@@Amanda-10702 no fixed part...yes! And that's the beauty of this writing system!!!
Are you kidding me? Where do you live? And how long have you lived in China. How can you say such a thing? It means that you don't even know the basis of your language. I had a Chinese teacher who didn't know how to write many characters because he always lived abroad and he was very lazy. You must write every day.
I feel like a turd since I’m chinese and I can only speak fluently but not write or read. This helped a lot :’) tysm
baburuti SAME! I am attending school in China but I can’t really read or write the characters but I can speak fluently Yay found my twin :)
“Turd"! Lol. Glad it helped 😉
Same I’m canto and don’t understand a single thing in mandarin
baburuti me too I can speak but can read nor write but am not chiness am going to learn now full time student 👩🎓
a turd in the wind?
Hey dude! I finally found this video again! A year ago I decided to get Zhang Laoshi's books because of this vid, and I have to say learning the characters the way you describe, through having a glance at their history/context, was the best Mandarin learning decision I've ever made. I've still got a long way to go but I'm working at it :)
mmm actually I had pretty much the same ideas as yourself.
A lot of non Chinese speakers won't even try to learn to read of write and many times I have explained to them that if you look at the picture for e.g. gau meaning high it's pretty self explanatory. I've also suggested integrating geometry into their learning and when you put these characters into a compound you quite often get parts if the Zhuyin alphabet which can help.
But ye , I think the book idea is really great so thanks and connection with the multiverses or universal mind, collective consciousness or whatever are really important.
Synesthesia
Wow…that is part of the learning process to me. 😮😮
I am Malaysian I go Chinese school and I can speak quite fluently but memorizing is just not my thing,but this video helped me alot!Thanks for posting this
我觉得马來士阿的人是很聰明的。努力学习!
Most characters have a 3 line story attached.
You approach an island (at sea, not in a lake or river): the first thing you see are birds flying over "the water".
The closer you come a mountain rises out of the water.
That: is an island.
Pretty awesome video!
Thank you so much I’m having issues to study my test, it’s a big part of my grade
You got me laughing like crazy when you shared that story. It reminds me how I used to do that with Spanish and the weirdness gets you remembering it and coming back for more.
Yeah, the mind works in quirky ways. The weirder, ruder and funnier, the more memorable! :)
@@ChineseIsEasy Yes. Just like when I saw someone with a Chinese tattoo that said 屁股和奶子 on their neck in the library. (I am serious though, someone did have that tattoo on their neck).
❤❤❤ I’m a old nerd, enjoy your process for memorization. I will seek out the book you mentioned.
Thank you very much Vetta. I see you speak Korean. I learned a bit when I lived in a Korean expat city in China. Lots of overlap in the vocab :)
The best video ever when it comes to understanding and learning the Chinese characters. 请问，老师您怎么背单词发音? 感谢，您的讲课很牛逼
Learn Chinese and learn English at the same time. Great. Thank you.
你很棒，加油，坚持就是胜利✌🏻我来自上海，I just started a channel to share Chinese culture, Chinese language and life in China. 相互学习，多多交流，谢谢。
Really interesting, valuable for me moving to Beijing this month. Looking forward to picking up more mandarin and also sharing on my own channel 😊
QUESTION: What technique do you use to remember Chinese characters?
you can also go thru the list 'backwards' which really helps cement the character
This is incredible. I love it!
I look at it for a split second and try to draw it mentally and if I don’t get it I repeat
Look, draw a few times, wait a few minutes, draw it again a few times, wait, draw again. Then an hour later. Then the next day. I do this in groups of 10-20 characters.
I write them down ten times the first time using different colored pens. Then twice on the succeeding days. I don't personally assign any specific color to the tones because they change according to the words beside them.
For those don't like to write
Using tooth- pick sticks to form 人‘ after that add a small stick 一 to 人 became 大 Add 二 to 人 became天 . Add two small sticks to 大 became头....买卖 灾火🔥火灭灾火土 太犬 头. From 人 ，move two sticks apart became 八入 then bend two sticks became 儿, add a small piece together to form 又叉 又
write using two u, u and add l, 出 凹
巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣 尺层.using handphone software, as long write 70% similar word will appear
Dude can you make a quick video of how to use there techniques to learn Chinese. Like a couple examples of each technique with different scenarios
Will see what I can do Clint
@@ChineseIsEasy thanks man
Watching this the night before my chinese test i have to memorise 37 vocabularies
This was really cool!! Thanks for sharing that. I might buy that book now.
I will try this out lad
Interesting. This method makes sense considering Mandarine evolves from hieroglyph.
Mate, I'm glad you're back and uploading. Cheers!
MrPigpigeon, thanks a lot. It's good to be back. I apologize for the delay, I've been distracted with my day job. More videos are coming out this week. So stay tuned ;)
thank you for the tip"Learning Chinese Characters from Ms Zhang.
Though it's pretty darn expensive...
Just want to put up something i've learned after being tasked with copy editing a research proposal regarding difficulties in Chinese learning experienced by ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. Apparently according to the research proposal, Chinese children in Hong Kong are expected to take the entire primary school period of 6 years (6 to 12 years) to recognise about 2600 Chinese characters to be considered literate and cope with daily life. From my personal experience with my children, Chinese children in Hong Kong learn how to read and write basic characters as soon as they start kindergarten at about 3 years age. So there you go, if you want to be on par with at least a child who has finished primary school, you will need to be able to read and write 2600 characters.
The first method is the best, I think that would work on every one 👍🏼
how do you memorize 1.2.3.美國統治時期,華人的生活比較安定,原因;
只要華人守法,就不受壓迫。
美國官員比較廉潔,華人都能安居樂業。
美國在菲發展交通,開發資源等計劃,對華人商業有利。
美國是新興國家,對華人的居留,不會感到威脅。
華人對菲社會的貢獻;
華人與菲人結婚,中,菲混血的人,社會地位較高。
華人經營商業,從事工業和農業,對發展社會經濟,有很
大的貢獻。
食、衣、住、行方面,有不少是由華人介紹來的。
菲國國語中,也很多由華語來的,如豆干,豆腐,白菜,
麵線,燒包及燒賣等。
西班牙統治時,起初為什麼歡迎華人來菲?後來為何又屠殺華
人?
西班牙政府初期為了開發資源,鼓勵商業,需要中國的貨物、
勞工和技術,所以歡迎華人來菲,後來怕華人與菲人連結起來,
反抗政府,所以有屠殺華人的事件發生。in one day
Flashcard them up. Look, cover, write check. Write out multiple times. The brain remembers in vibrant narrative stories, so try to weave the vocab items into a story in your mind. Test yourself after 1 hour, 2 hours etc. Then again the morning of the test. Get someone else to test your flashcards if possible. Read them out and play them on your iPhone if you're an aural learner. It's a challenge but definitely doable for a smart little cookie like you ;)
Love the mind palace analogy, Mr. Sherlock. ;-) Great video, lots of great info. Thanks!
你很棒，加油，坚持就是胜利✌🏻我来自上海，I just started a channel to share Chinese culture, Chinese language and life in China. 相互学习，多多交流，谢谢。
I loved this video!!!! All the explanations are great. Thank you!
Thanks for watching, so glad you enjoyed it
You are Very good in explaining the way to learned theI Chin how you explain the was you learned l
The Chinese. Characters
Learning Chinese vocabulary and skipping on characters is like skipping leg days in the gym 👍
I kinda feel it's a LOT worse.
Since you are then missing out on a lot of studying opportunities.
For example:
Practicing exercises in workbooks that gradually remove the pinyin.
Having subtitles to aid you if you fail to get the meaning in a C-Drama.
Or simply reading books in chinese.
Can relate
That’s the reason I wanted to learn Chinese all the different things the characters show
What was? To learn Chinese characters?
Many thanks for a helpful video, I learn Chinese on my own so really need to know it!
加油！
I recalled the first couple of chinese characters I learned and wrote down on my homework book in the elementary school was 一 二 三 上下左右
I need to get a book now. It is interesting.
Can you recommend another books please?
What level are you at? What are your learning aims: oral, written, HSK exam?? I've just made a video on selecting textbooks, which I'll post soon
Chinese Is Easy Im a beginner. Starting from 0. I know nothing about Chinese but I need to pass Hsk level 5 exam in a year. It that impossible please help! 😂
@@yinnyyayee are you serious? If you are, then the path is straightforward: you need to buy the HSK course books - LOTS of them
Thanks you very much! Your video very helpful! I finally understand how to learn characters! through associations!
Perfect and very interesting examples. Thanks a lot
Glad it was useful
I really like your tipps. For exemple how I learnt 要 (i had a lot ot problems for retain it), a bag and a woman WANTS to make shopping :)
Valuable tips! Just subscribed, thanks!
Great. Glad they were helpful
Thank you for recommending the Ms. Zhang book. Do you know if the other books of Ms. Zhang are also pretty good? I see they have characters to words. And a workbook, too.
Hope you are fine and in the best of health!!!! Splendid indeed!!!!
From where can I get Zhang's book? How? Please let me know.
谢谢你🙏🏻
没关系 :)
@@notsub15 yeah
Xie xie ni. I've heard some of this before, particularly the odd memory story. It IS effective!
Yeah, check out Tony Buzan's study skills. They literally changed my life. I remember all long numbers (bank cards etc.) as words and images now thanks to his Master System
Really great tips! Thank you!
Thanks Doug. Glad it was helpful
Me : Learn Japanese
TH-cam : *Did you mean, Chinese?*
I can feel your pain👌👌
俺もその感じ
私N４やN３のレベルで中国語したい
Hi please make more lessons your lesson is just essential for learners
Brilliant video mate. New subscriber ✌🏻
Cheers buddy. New content coming soon. Stay tuned
Really Informative Video, How did you learn Radicals? I ordered your recommended book by Zhang just now. TY
me having a chinese test tomorrow :
Sameee
Good luck!!
考得怎么样
Me tooo
Lol same
Fantastic teacher, enjoyable to watch, but I’m afraid I don’t agree with the reinforcement of the myth that radicals on the left give meaning. The Pleco dictionary add on from Outlier Linguistics taught me that. For example I just learned in the word Chengdu 成都, within dū 都 the component in the right means city, the component on the left was once a sound component.
It's definitely not a "myth" that radicals on the left give meaning! Unfortunately, it only applies to a certain number of characters :(
wow! Thanks so much for this incredibly useful video!
Very Nice explanation!! Do you know that many Chinese characters are based on stories in the Bible?
What the fuck
Bible is a pop don't compared with chinese
@Sophia X i wondered the same?
@@AmanKumar-sg4hd what a ridiculous triggered response
funny and wonderful, haha I was amazed, that these Chinese characters were once drawings and evolved
Thanks Melvin. Yes, it's pretty amazing!
Thankyou! I’m in 5th grade and i’m still failing chinese TwT i’ll continue studying more- and hope i will understand- qwq
It’s great that you are starting to learn Chinese in 5th grade, I would recommend you to stay in Chinese through middles school and high school. I have been on Chinese since 6th grade (now in 8th) and have been studying it a lot, and Chinese is a great language to know for job opportunities and etc. and since your starting at an early age you have a lot of time to learn. (Also Chinese is not as hard as people make it seem) and I know you didn’t ask me this but I thought it would be a good idea to be dedicated to learning Chinese early
@@unlimitedmotivation__ actually i’ve been learning chinese my whole life.. the thing is i still can’t get my chinese better.. i can speak chinese well. i’ve passed on chinese ^^ but i can’t get it to the same level as how i should know chinese
@@GhostAlliums oh ok, well that is even better, when you say you speak Chinese well do you mean that you can read any Chinese pinyin in a breeze or pinyin and Hanzi? If you can then I would practice memorizing vocabulary that either your school or you want to learn, then you can use that vocabulary in a ton of different sentences. And every sentence will be different because you are using the verbs and nouns you learn from your vocabulary.
@@GhostAlliums congrats ur in middle school now, have as much fun as you can, high schools gonna be tough lol I’m on my first year.
Great video. I love when people don’t use the fake smile all the time. 😂
Though at times I found his stare to be quite extrem.
But I know he was watching for if the camera was piking up everything correctly. :D
Hello, thank you very much for sharing your technics. I use exactly same method to learn japanise Kanji and not decided to apply same method to learn mandarine. Can you please share where can I learn more about your second method using radicals. It is very interesting. Thank you!
Thanks, Lots Of Help
Thank you. Glad it was helpful ;)
Love your passion bro
These tips are amazing.
Thank you very much.
Star learning today ☺️
Hallo, it's great to learn characters, but how you memories pronounsiation? Thank you for answer.
Y'all I'm a Chinese native and we have to memorise a whole ancient Chinese paragraph every week like this long
慶曆四年春，滕子京謫守巴陵郡。越明年，政通人和，百廢具興，乃重修岳陽樓，增其舊制，刻唐賢今人詩賦於其上。屬予作文以記之。(具 通：俱)
予觀夫巴陵勝狀，在洞庭一湖。銜遠山，吞長江，浩浩湯湯，橫無際涯；朝暉夕陰，氣象萬千。此則岳陽樓之大觀也，前人之述備矣。然則北通巫峽，南極瀟湘，遷客騷人，多會於此，覽物之情，得無異乎?
若夫霪雨霏霏，連月不開，陰風怒號，濁浪排空；日星隱曜，山嶽潛形；商旅不行，檣傾楫摧；薄暮冥冥，虎嘯猿啼。登斯樓也，則有去國懷鄉，憂讒畏譏，滿目蕭然，感極而悲者矣。 Not even kidding and it's harder to memorise because it's ancient Chinese and it's different from the one we speak with. So that's why Asians are smart lmao
Memorizing something doesn’t make you smart
let alone recite and write from memory
I have mandarin oral test tomorrow, and the following day, i have listening and writing test💀 The thing is i can speak well but not fluently, and im struggling to recognize some hanzi. It's been 6 months since im learning mandarin. So it's kinda difficult for me but this language is interesting!
Wow! Thank you.
I study sign language. Many of the written languages are phonetic-based. Is it possible to read Chinese fluently without knowing spoken Chinese language (Mandarin or Cantonese)?
我正在学习繁体字，让我告诉您它们的书写难度。我已经知道简体字了。我喜欢普通话，这是最容易学习的语言。我也在学习乌尔都语和旁遮普语。我已经学习了两年。我的朋友们喜欢中文，但他们水平较高，比我年长很多。
If you write the words down a lot of times you can remember words including chinese
It would be nice if the book you're recommending were still in print. It is nearly impossible to find! Can you perhaps recommend another, more easily accessible book?
That’s really helpful man thanks a lot 💪🙌
do you also have some scientific archaelogical video that shows how did they found out the ancient etymology or shapes etc, or these are also reconstruction guess works. and how long does it go back in time?
I have spent months researching into how to speak Mandarin and found a great resource at Magic mandarin blueprint (google it if you are interested)
thank u bro! u r helping me a lot!
你好极了！我爱这。谢谢你！
Thanks man ive been relearning it and I am fluent but the only thing im struggling in is remembering characters.. thanks!!!
Cool. Glad the video was useful
9 minutes in and it’s incredible! Well made video and you know what a Chinese might just be easier than Spanish. Ahah
Thanks Justin!
I write some words today in an exam, will forget about it the next day 😂
Memorizing is always easy! If you read something it is easy. But writing is always difficult - auch wenn man in der eigenen Sprache schreibt. (- even if you write in your own language)! If I enter Chinese text with the help of a computer, then it is not difficult to write a correct text - but if I do this on paper from my memory, errors often occur or my head starts to strike.
Thank you 🙏
不客氣
Very interesting. Thanks
You're welcome!
很好。谢谢老师!
你很棒，加油，坚持就是胜利✌🏻我来自上海，I just started a channel to share Chinese culture, Chinese language and life in China. 相互学习，多多交流，谢谢。
I will try it, i like it:)
Nice one brother
If you want learn chinese, you don't need to learn chinese characters. You can just learn pinyin, it's Latinized Mandarin, everyone can read it in China.
I found that pinyin is at least as much a hindrance as a help. Not only does it mean learning two languages rather than one, the letters and letter combinations aren't always pronounced as one instinctively pronounce them as a native English speaker. Which is very off-putting. One can only assume it wasn't developed for language learning but more likely for coping with Chinese characters when inputting into tech. That's my guess anyway. To be really useful for language learning one would need tweaked local versions that correctly indicate local pronunciation. Even then you'd still have to make those connections to the real characters.
@@WideCuriosity pinyin is designed for Chinese to learn Chinese , not for foreigner. The history of pinyin is very short, just about 60 years.The pronounce of A~Z in pinyin is quiet different from what in English. If you want to learn better , the first thing you should do is to forget your English.
But you cannot read magazines, newspaper, etc :-(
@@nguyen7349 Nobody read newspaper in China except old man.
@Sad officier K Yep, beacuse I am a Chinese.
Using 3 fingers to draw
彡 after that draw 手 丟 毛 爪 抓 拿看 春须 丰(富) 參(加) 训 修改, 家 豹，汤
需是认识中文字。学习部分输入法，要用AI手法，主要你写的字手机的软件，会认识字就好了。让学生知道文字怎样构成。好像学写口，然后变成日，吃，早，唱，喝，，人，，这些有关 联顺序,比较容易记住。最好也会一些语音输入法。要跟小孩子讲, 囗 就是两个L。写人 ，然后 变成 大，太大，天，大，头，买卖
Another interesting q
How you correlate the meaning of the character to how its pronounced? 🤔
When your item as big as Everest, do you need to draw that big, and smaller stuffs need to draw it itsy tiny?
Thank you
You're welcome
Do you have a video on learning radicals?
I'm just starting out and I like your videos! I'm inspired! Were you concerned with stroke order from the get go when drawing the characters out to memorise them?...it's overwhelmingly slow trying to incorporate that aspect into the learning process!
Thanks! And no, not too much. I tried to keep the basic rule of "left to right and top to bottom" in mind. You generally get a feel for it. And over the years Chinese people pointed out the odd character where I'd got it wrong. It might be slower, but to me any other way is incomplete. If you want to build a solid wall you can't just lay bricks and then "maybe" go back in put cement in later. IYSWIM!
I'm a nepali and I speak cantonese fluently I'm just 10 years old but I dont really know how to speak chinese and I am really bad at reading cantonese and writing so in my diction its really hard for me
有趣 老师教的很好
I’m lost
How many do Ms.Zhang’s books have please?
How many characters will you suggest for the beginner in learning Chinese, like me?
3,000 will get you pretty far my friend
I am finding I am learning the written language easier than the spoken language.
Yep. I did too. It's different for everyone depending on their natural learning strengths and preferences