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Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! | ShaoLan

May 12, 2020
Reviewer: Ingrid Lezar I grew up in Taiwan as the daughter of a calligrapher. One of my most treasured memories was when my mother showed me the beauty and shape of Chinese characters. From then on I was captivated by this incredible language. But to an outsider it seems as impenetrable as the Great Wall of China. For the past few years, I have wondered if I could tear down this wall, so that anyone who wants to understand and appreciate the beauty of this sophisticated language can do so. I'm starting to think a new and quick way to

learn

Chinese would be useful.
learn to read chinese with ease shaolan
Since I was five years old, I started

learn

ing to draw each line of each character in the correct order. I learned new characters every day for 15 years. Since we only have five minutes, we better have a quick and easy way. A Chinese student would understand 20,000 characters. You only need 1000 to be basically literate. The first 200 will allow you to understand 40 percent of basic literature: enough to

read

road signs and menus, to understand the basic idea of ​​web pages or newspapers. Today I'm going to start with eight to show you how the method works. Are you

read

y? Open your mouth as wide as you can until it is square.
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You have a mouth. He is a person who goes for a walk. Person. If the shape of the fire is a person, with its arms on both sides, as if it is screaming frantically: "Help! I'm on fire!" -- This symbol actually originally comes from the shape of flames, but I like to think so. Whatever works for you. It's a tree. Tree. It is a mountain. Sun. Moon. The door symbol looks like a pair of barred doors from the Wild West. I call these eight characters radicals. They are the basic components so you can create many more characters.
learn to read chinese with ease shaolan
A person. If someone walks behind you it is to "follow." As the saying goes: two is even, three is odd. If a person spreads his arms, he says, "It was so big." The person inside the mouth, the person is trapped. He is a prisoner, like Jonah in the whale. A tree is a tree. Two trees together are a forest. Three trees together create a forest. We put a board under the tree, then we get the foundation. Putting a mouth on top of the tree: that's idiotic. (Laughs) Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic.
learn to read chinese with ease shaolan
Do you remember the fire? Two fires together: it makes me very hot. Three fires together are many flames. Put the fire under the two trees: it burns. For us, the sun is a source of prosperity. Two suns together: prosperous. Three together: it's brilliant. The sun and the moon shine together: that is brightness. It also means tomorrow, after a day and a night. The sun rises over the horizon. Sunrise. A door. Put a board on the door: it's a lock. Put a mouth on the door: ask questions. Knock Knock. There is someone at home. The person escapes through the door, escapes, avoids.
On the left we have a woman. Two women together have a fight. (Laughter) Three women together, be careful, that's adultery. We are almost past 30 characters. With this method, the first eight radicals will allow you to build 32. The next group of eight characters will build another 32. Thus, with very little effort you can learn a few hundred characters, as many as an eight-year-old Chinese child knows. Once we know the characters, we begin to construct sentences. For example, the mountain and the fire together give us the mountain of fire. It's a volcano. We know that Japan is the land of the rising sun.
This is a sun placed with the origin, because Japan is located east of China. So with sun and origin together we make Japan. A person behind Japan; What do we get? A Japanese person. The character on the left is two mountains stacked on top of each other. In ancient China it means exile, because Chinese emperors exiled their political enemies to the mountains. Nowadays exile has changed to courtship. A mouth that tells you where to exit is an exit. This is a slide that reminds me to stop talking and leave the stage. Thank you. (Applause)

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