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One tip I can give beginners is that you should not remember the Chinese characters "how they look" like "this looks like a horse" or something. Some tutors tell you that but it is very bad to do so. Instead learn them from their elements and what they really mean. This element means "hand" and this element means "fit" and together it means "pick up". This way it will become easier to learn them.
Your method was working for me at first, but then I noticed "a car" in "clothes" and "a man" in "cheap" characters and it all started to slow down my progress and rememebering them got harder. There's only 5% characters that make sense the rest is just abstract notions made of elements without meaning or they are put there for the sound, in my amateur view. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@andreikoto4810 Depends on if you're learning the traditional or simplified Chinese. The simplified Chinese kinda removed a lot of the original context of the words in pursuit of simplification.
Thank you for the logical and scholarly deconstruction of Chinese characters and focusing on components rather than radicals. I would love to see a list of the 132 or 135 components that are used for the words used in daily conversation.
The other benefit which I really love about learning with this method is you can actually 'guess' the sound of the word even you never saw that word before! After learning for a while, I started noticing that some components have certain effect on other components' sound! For example, the component 王 wang2 (king) or 金 jin1 (metal) when put on the left side of other components, it retain the sound of the component on the right, but only change the meaning. Ex.) 林 Lin1 = Forest, 琳 Lin1 (same sound but add 王 to the left) = Gem 太 tai4 = too, 鈦 tai4 (same sound but add 金 to the left) = Titanium Some component does have effect on the sound (Example from the video) 智 zhi4 = Intelligence. It's actually compose of 知 zhi1 + 日 ri4, you can see that it took the sound from the word 'zhi1' and change it to the 4th tone from the word 'ri4'. This is just a simple example. You can see a lot of patterns like this if you learn more vocabulary. Sometimes it changes the initial sound, sometimes it changes the tone and sometimes it changes the final or vowel. By understanding these pattern, it becomes really handy when you have electronic dictionary like in your phone or computer because you can just type the sound that you 'guessed' or 'estimated' and let the device do the suggestion. Hope you find my tip helpful!
this was incredibly insightful, and I was a Japanese major in undergrad. We never learned anything like this, just had to memorize wholesale! Now that I am learning Chinese in this way, everything makes more sense!
Hello Grace! 我叫阿维。I am from Vietnam who has self studied Chinese language for nearly 2 years. At the beginning phase of learning, I both studied prononciation and hanzi. Related to hanzi, I used a tracing book. The vocabulary is topically classified. I traced the characters based on the strokes which is numbered and drawn with arrows in that book, then deconstruct the characters. I wondered: "What radicals does it contain? ; what meaning does the characters imply? Etc. I have spent more than 6 months to master writing Chinese characters. At present, when I read Chinese books, I usually summarize and express my opinion. Of course, I use handwriting method to compose the summary. The process of mastering handwriting Chinese characters is hard, but it deserves.
This is the reason why i learn traditional chinese instead of simplified one bcuz i can see that there'a a structure and a way to remember new vocabulary. The more u learn the easier it gets to remember new words since you can strategically learn them based on the characters that u already know.
I am learning Chinese calligraphy. Chinese characters are so beautiful when you learn to write them well. It also helps me to learn the characters themselves
The important thing to note though is that only Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan uses traditional characters. China, Malaysia and Singapore uses simplified. Macao and Hong Kong are part of China so those territories have simplified and English support. So simplified characters are the best way and easiest to start. Simplified characters can be written by hand which really helps learning them. 学vs學 and 发vs發 and the list goes on and on。Simplified characters was were one of China's greatest gifts to Chinese learners after pinyin. Thanks China! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ P.S. another reason to learn Simplified is that Taiwan wants to be bilingual (English and Mandarin) by 2030 to compete with Singapore and Malaysia who also speak English and other languages too. Traditional writers can read simplified. The Simplified users DWARF the traditional users by a billion people at least in Asia alone. I learn traditional as a hobby and to read some niche Chinese tv content etc. I make a habit to hand write characters by hand often so I won't ever forget how. That will be a real challenge with traditional.
It's not true. I'm learning traditional characters and I feel no difference in difficulty with the simplified ones. Most characters are the same in both systems anyway.
@@SupremeMaster-he4rc Simplified Chinese characters may oversimplify. A lot of Chinese lexical history is lost. Access to pre-1956 Chinese publications require a knowledge of Traditional Characters. Additionally Taiwan continues to publish academically in Traditional Chinese. So Simplified Chinese is self-limiting to the PRC perspective.
As someone who chose to study them instead of the simplified characters, they are not much more difficult to write tbh, it just takes some getting used to. Individually, sure, you occasionally find some that have way more strokes, but overall I think it's worth it since I found traditional characters more predictable to read and more aesthetically pleasing. Most of the characters I think are a pain to write haven't even been simplified in China, like 餐, or even 累 that I often struggle to make fit into a square. I particularly think the Chinese government did a poor job in simplifying its system, I agree with the person who said the Japanese did it better. If the whole literate population of Taiwan and Hong Kong can write the traditional characters by hand, so can us foreigners if that's what we want.
I had decent success by combining reading with a popup dictionary and flashcards. I used a tool to get all the words in the text, then put those words in the flashcard program and learning them starting with the most frequent to less frequent. Parallel to that I read the text with a popup dictionary. The pop-up dictionary helps to keep the flow going. This way you learn useful words you actually encounter in the 'wild' and get to see them in context. And with the pop-up dictionary you can get a reasonable reading experience that is enjoyable even if there are a fair number of words you don't know (very well) so it is easier to keep up the work and can read more 'meaningful' books than children level. I started with 许三观卖血记 from Yu Hua as that was one of the easiest books I could find measured in number of different words used.
Apparently some characters depend on being paired to have a meaning. For example -- butterfly >> 蝴蝶 (hu die). Neither the first or last paired characters has any meaning when it stands alone in text. A single bound form character is often a typograpical error though some are capable of standing alone as a surname, such as 孟 (Meng). Also another semantic issue is a character in a pair may sometimes vary its meaning when placement moves between the initial and the final position. So these two situations need to me known in order to properly manage paired characters.
I've been trying to learn Chinese characters intermittently over the last 15+ years. It feels like I keep forgetting them almost as soon as I learn them. Or, I can recognize them in context (like a sentence in a textbook), but then when I come across Chinese writing unexpectedly while living my life, I can't tell if a given character is the one I know or not. Or, although I can recognize one, I forget how to write it. I think the biggest problem is that my study habits are poor, I study random stuff at random times and then don't pick it up again for months or years. Also, this has been split across times I was studying Japanese, Korean, and now finally Chinese. So sometimes I know the character's sound in one language but not the others'. 😆 Now that I am learning Chinese, I think it will help because there is no kana or hangul writing to use as a crutch, haha--but, I'm learning simplified Chinese, so maybe in another 15 years I'll tell you if that was a good idea. 😂😭
I have exactly the same experience as yours, from learning 3 languages to picking up things here and there, and being inconsistent with studying or revising. And I can relate to others things you said as well Such as Ik 鳥 this is Tori and bird but don't know the Chinese pronunciation 😭 even sometimes i recognize Hanzi but if you tell me to write them without seeing i can't. I keep forgetting the strokes. The only thing I can't relate to is the duration. Yours 15 mine only 3
Hi grace, I started my own journey of learning mandarine chinese since 29th Sept 2023, and its been 2 months. I am so curious about learning this languange. In my way of learning, mostly 1 wrote 4 times, 1. The pinying 2. Pinying's read in bahasa (I'm Indonesian btw) 3. The meaning of words/ sentence in bahasa or english 4. The hanzi Of course, it took a lot of time, But up till now the result it quite awesome, for 2 month learning 1 already spend 2 note books walking to 3, and thank you for your video about how to pronounce chinese vowels and consonant, it was really helpful. but mostly after wrote hanzi acouple times, not longer after that, i forgot it, untill i repeated to write again more and more, Should i learn from this door? (learning hanzi) first for accelerate my chinese learning journey?
Thanks so much for another helpful video! I'm currently studying abroad in Taiwan and your videos have been extremely helpful. Keep up the good work. 加油!
Thank You so much for the video, I have started learning Chinese 63 days ago, I finished my HSK 1 Today and i signed up for the Igcse 0547 Chinese Foreign Language examination for 2025 :). Thank You so much!
So I grew up learning a lot of characters through rote but they were the basic characters. I left Taiwan when I was 5 but I can still read (but not write), is that weird? When I see the characters I recall how to pronounce them but can't for the life of me recall how to write it lol but I think that has to do a lot with the compound characters and you remember what that word is. Thought I'd mention this too while it works for Traditional Chinese, have fun with Simplified Chinese! I also highly recommend people just watch Chinese talk shows lol. Especially the old ones my mum and dad use to watch, I learnt most of my mandrain through those.
I think stroke order for 我 at 2:40 is incorrect - order of the two last strokes should reversed and the dot should be the last one. Anyways great video!
Do you know the book Remembering Hanzi (traditional or simplified)? That is a based in Remembering the Kanji (🇯🇵 characters). I think that this book isn't very well know to Chinese students
I paid for my first Mandarin lesson when I was in my early 20s, the biggest mistake a teacher could tell their student is: “Yes Mandarin is so hard, harder to learn than ur language! So hard! Many characters!” 😂 Thank God I was born stubborn and mentally strong! 😂 Long story short I found other teachers who told me it’s possible and it’s not that hard! Every language has its own challenges!
RIP the 回憶默寫法 is literally confusing to me purely because i am SUCH a visual learner! literally the other day i was telling my mum ‘why did i forget how to read 決 and 快 when i’ve been reading it all my life’ 😂😂😂😂
Why is stroke order so important? I've noticed that these online tools will mark it wrong if the order is wrong. If the end product looks the same, why is order important?
I'm a Chinese teacher and a Linguist and I made a research of my own (took me A LOT of time) and in the 3.5k most used characters from the Chinese Government List there are a total of 1211 components (of which 465 are only used once). The example you gave of 餐 shouldn't be divided into 3 components, but into 2: 食 (food) and 𣦼 (the sound part "can"). The other example 嘴 should be 口 (mouth) and 觜 (the sound "zui"), not 口, 此 and 角. It is really important you said students should focus on RECOGNIZING characters rather than on writing them. NOBODY WRITES ANYTHING BY HAND these days. The student will just have to type the pinyin and then RECOGNIZING the characters that appear. You should have also said that there are mainly 3 types of characters: drawings (like 日, 目, 人, 女, etc.), drawing associations (like 好, 森, 名, etc.) and drawings associated with sound (like 吗, 妈, 爸, etc.).
Thank you for dedicating your time to research on Chinese characters. I appreciate your insights, especially regarding the decomposition of components. Different scholars might indeed have varying standards for breaking down characters. My video's data was sourced from “Chinese Linguistics Bureau. (2005). Modern dictionary of frequently used Chinese characters. Beijing: The Commercial Press.” If you're curious, you might find this book an interesting reference. The difference between your calculations and the book's data likely stem from different definitions of components and standards for character decomposition. Further, I divided “餐” into three components because elements like “歺“, also used in ”𠎀“, are treated as separate components on a website called ”國學大師“ (www.guoxuedashi.net/zidian/bujian/). “又” is another commonly used component, which is why I considered them individually. Similarly, the character '嘴' can be further dissected. While “觜” represents the phonetic part of the word, it can be decomposed into two separate components: “此” and “角”. These components appear independently in various characters, and they are not always linked together. It seems there might be a mix-up between the concepts of components and radicals in your interpretation. While there's overlap, components aren't always meaningful on their own (they don't always present sounds or meanings of the characters). The examples you mentioned (semantic and phonetic radicals) aren't entirely synonymous with components, though different scholars may indeed have their own definitions. Thanks again for sharing your insights! Edit: The example I provided earlier, "𠎀", should be considered a variant form of '傑'. Currently, "傑" is the most commonly used form. For more information about "歺", you can visit this link: zi.tools/zi/歺
I write by hand! It helps me remember. But yeah it's a very interesting thing really, it helps me more than just remembering pīnyīn. Now I know what it sounds like and how it's written.
And Sweden, which was a world leader in usage of electronic devices in schools, has recently started removing them from schools. This is due to research and data which clearly show that there is much more damage than benefit to people's brain when they do everything on their computers. Do we really have to go into that direction? Learning how to write by hand will not kill you, you know...
I am a Chinese individual and would like to make friends whose native language is English. If you're interested in Chinese, I believe we can become speaking practice partners.
I think i hold the secret to being able to forget traditional chinese characters. I can learn a word, then look at it 10 seconds later and have no idea what it is.
I was learning Chinese. I asked a girl from Taiwan how she learned all the Chinese characters. She told me that every day in school they were given a few characters to learn, and the next day the teacher checked to see if the student learned them. If the student did not learn them, he got hit with a stick. So I decided not to bother too much with the Chinese characters for the most part and know the pin yin instead, cuz I don't want to have to find someone to hit me with a stick.
The only efficient way to learn Chinese characters is to look at their original oracle bone shapes. For example, how the heck am I supposed to memorize 'summer' 夏 xià? No logic there at all! Easy, just look at the original: a picture of a man kneeling before the sun. It might help if you learn that at the time of its creation the character read, and the word was pronounced not xià, but KRAːʔ. What the heck is KRA? Well, that's the ancient endonym of the 'Chinese' people, the Huaxia, or the Magnificent KRA. By the way, KRA also happens to be the endonym of Austronesian/Tai-Kadai/Kradai people who had populated central and eastern China before the (proto-)Chinese arrived from Tibet arount 4000 years ago. The (proto-)Chinese invaders forced the locals to learn the Sino-Tibetan words, but the grammar was lost forever. The process was called 'dramatic creolization' by the linguists. Which is why Chinese now has Tibetan words, but not Tibetan grammar. That's the proper way to learn Chinese characters!
I have studied English humor for many years. I have created a lot of videos to teach Chinese in a graphic and humorous way. The examples given in the teaching include Chinese humor or English humor. I wonder why so few people watch my videos.
Cool. But the way she pronounced it *charaWters* is a bit annoying; if it had said just for a few times, maybe it's not really a problem, but since she said *charaWters* too many times, she should have learnt it better to say it properly.
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One tip I can give beginners is that you should not remember the Chinese characters "how they look" like "this looks like a horse" or something. Some tutors tell you that but it is very bad to do so. Instead learn them from their elements and what they really mean. This element means "hand" and this element means "fit" and together it means "pick up". This way it will become easier to learn them.
Thanks for ur tip I also found it very hard to do such😊
Your method was working for me at first, but then I noticed "a car" in "clothes" and "a man" in "cheap" characters and it all started to slow down my progress and rememebering them got harder. There's only 5% characters that make sense the rest is just abstract notions made of elements without meaning or they are put there for the sound, in my amateur view. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@andreikoto4810 Depends on if you're learning the traditional or simplified Chinese. The simplified Chinese kinda removed a lot of the original context of the words in pursuit of simplification.
@@damiester1 that's fair. I was reffering to the simplified version.
Yes but regardless how will you know to read it if you don't know what it LOOKS like...?
With this video I realized that subconsciously i have used some of this tips, now i will use them strategically. Thanks Grace :)
Thank you for the logical and scholarly deconstruction of Chinese characters and focusing on components rather than radicals. I would love to see a list of the 132 or 135 components that are used for the words used in daily conversation.
I love discovering the meanings behind the chinese characters. There is so much meaning!!
The other benefit which I really love about learning with this method is you can actually 'guess' the sound of the word even you never saw that word before! After learning for a while, I started noticing that some components have certain effect on other components' sound! For example, the component 王 wang2 (king) or 金 jin1 (metal) when put on the left side of other components, it retain the sound of the component on the right, but only change the meaning.
Ex.) 林 Lin1 = Forest, 琳 Lin1 (same sound but add 王 to the left) = Gem
太 tai4 = too, 鈦 tai4 (same sound but add 金 to the left) = Titanium
Some component does have effect on the sound (Example from the video) 智 zhi4 = Intelligence. It's actually compose of 知 zhi1 + 日 ri4, you can see that it took the sound from the word 'zhi1' and change it to the 4th tone from the word 'ri4'. This is just a simple example. You can see a lot of patterns like this if you learn more vocabulary. Sometimes it changes the initial sound, sometimes it changes the tone and sometimes it changes the final or vowel.
By understanding these pattern, it becomes really handy when you have electronic dictionary like in your phone or computer because you can just type the sound that you 'guessed' or 'estimated' and let the device do the suggestion.
Hope you find my tip helpful!
Love your method! Thank you for sharing it!
Am I the only one who thinks chinese characteres are just as challenging as beautiful?
You mean her?
Chinese characters is good but they have over a thousand characters
Yes
Yes, you are.
Me too ❤
The harder the chinese characters the more challenging and the more addicted I am to them.
this was incredibly insightful, and I was a Japanese major in undergrad. We never learned anything like this, just had to memorize wholesale! Now that I am learning Chinese in this way, everything makes more sense!
Hello Grace!
我叫阿维。I am from Vietnam who has self studied Chinese language for nearly 2 years. At the beginning phase of learning, I both studied prononciation and hanzi. Related to hanzi, I used a tracing book. The vocabulary is topically classified. I traced the characters based on the strokes which is numbered and drawn with arrows in that book, then deconstruct the characters. I wondered: "What radicals does it contain? ; what meaning does the characters imply? Etc.
I have spent more than 6 months to master writing Chinese characters.
At present, when I read Chinese books, I usually summarize and express my opinion. Of course, I use handwriting method to compose the summary. The process of mastering handwriting Chinese characters is hard, but it deserves.
I am a Chinese native. Awesome tutorial!
This is the reason why i learn traditional chinese instead of simplified one bcuz i can see that there'a a structure and a way to remember new vocabulary. The more u learn the easier it gets to remember new words since you can strategically learn them based on the characters that u already know.
I am learning Chinese calligraphy. Chinese characters are so beautiful when you learn to write them well. It also helps me to learn the characters themselves
I am beginner to learn english.Can I make friend with you?I can help you to learn chinese.😊
Traditional Chinese characters are definitely a huge challenge for foreigners.😂 no mention different accents of Chinese here.
The Chinese in Taiwan is different from Mainland Chinese. There are different tones.
The important thing to note though is that only Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan uses traditional characters. China, Malaysia and Singapore uses simplified. Macao and Hong Kong are part of China so those territories have simplified and English support. So simplified characters are the best way and easiest to start. Simplified characters can be written by hand which really helps learning them. 学vs學 and 发vs發 and the list goes on and on。Simplified characters was were one of China's greatest gifts to Chinese learners after pinyin. Thanks China! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
P.S. another reason to learn Simplified is that Taiwan wants to be bilingual (English and Mandarin) by 2030 to compete with Singapore and Malaysia who also speak English and other languages too. Traditional writers can read simplified. The Simplified users DWARF the traditional users by a billion people at least in Asia alone. I learn traditional as a hobby and to read some niche Chinese tv content etc. I make a habit to hand write characters by hand often so I won't ever forget how. That will be a real challenge with traditional.
It's not true. I'm learning traditional characters and I feel no difference in difficulty with the simplified ones. Most characters are the same in both systems anyway.
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Simplified Chinese characters may oversimplify. A lot of Chinese lexical history is lost.
Access to pre-1956 Chinese publications require a knowledge of Traditional Characters.
Additionally Taiwan continues to publish academically in Traditional Chinese. So Simplified Chinese is self-limiting to the PRC perspective.
As someone who chose to study them instead of the simplified characters, they are not much more difficult to write tbh, it just takes some getting used to. Individually, sure, you occasionally find some that have way more strokes, but overall I think it's worth it since I found traditional characters more predictable to read and more aesthetically pleasing. Most of the characters I think are a pain to write haven't even been simplified in China, like 餐, or even 累 that I often struggle to make fit into a square. I particularly think the Chinese government did a poor job in simplifying its system, I agree with the person who said the Japanese did it better. If the whole literate population of Taiwan and Hong Kong can write the traditional characters by hand, so can us foreigners if that's what we want.
Grace , many thanks for your tips. Learn new way to memorize and the apps skritter. I will test put in action my new way of learning and writting🎉
Just signed up for the course. I plan on getting a notebook soon so I can actually learn. ✍️📕
1:37 I've been speaking Japanese for a while now and it just blew my mind that the pronunciation of 智 was the same when used with other characters😂
This is one pf the best explanations ever.
Have a wonderful New Year's ! //thanks
I had decent success by combining reading with a popup dictionary and flashcards. I used a tool to get all the words in the text, then put those words in the flashcard program and learning them starting with the most frequent to less frequent. Parallel to that I read the text with a popup dictionary. The pop-up dictionary helps to keep the flow going. This way you learn useful words you actually encounter in the 'wild' and get to see them in context. And with the pop-up dictionary you can get a reasonable reading experience that is enjoyable even if there are a fair number of words you don't know (very well) so it is easier to keep up the work and can read more 'meaningful' books than children level. I started with 许三观卖血记 from Yu Hua as that was one of the easiest books I could find measured in number of different words used.
such a helpful comment. Could you share the apps you mention? Many thanks.
@@nhuquynhpham01 I used ChineseWordExtractor and Anki, but as it was several years ago, there may very well exist better tools now.
Thanks for sharing Grace!
Xìe xìe, your tips is pretty much helpful for me.
Apparently some characters depend on being paired to have a meaning. For example -- butterfly >> 蝴蝶 (hu die).
Neither the first or last paired characters has any meaning when it stands alone in text. A single bound form character is often a typograpical error though some are capable of standing alone as a surname, such as 孟 (Meng).
Also another semantic issue is a character in a pair may sometimes vary its meaning when placement moves between the initial and the final position.
So these two situations need to me known in order to properly manage paired characters.
I've been trying to learn Chinese characters intermittently over the last 15+ years. It feels like I keep forgetting them almost as soon as I learn them. Or, I can recognize them in context (like a sentence in a textbook), but then when I come across Chinese writing unexpectedly while living my life, I can't tell if a given character is the one I know or not. Or, although I can recognize one, I forget how to write it.
I think the biggest problem is that my study habits are poor, I study random stuff at random times and then don't pick it up again for months or years. Also, this has been split across times I was studying Japanese, Korean, and now finally Chinese. So sometimes I know the character's sound in one language but not the others'. 😆 Now that I am learning Chinese, I think it will help because there is no kana or hangul writing to use as a crutch, haha--but, I'm learning simplified Chinese, so maybe in another 15 years I'll tell you if that was a good idea. 😂😭
I have exactly the same experience as yours, from learning 3 languages to picking up things here and there, and being inconsistent with studying or revising. And I can relate to others things you said as well Such as Ik 鳥 this is Tori and bird but don't know the Chinese pronunciation 😭 even sometimes i recognize Hanzi but if you tell me to write them without seeing i can't. I keep forgetting the strokes. The only thing I can't relate to is the duration. Yours 15 mine only 3
Hi grace,
I started my own journey of learning mandarine chinese since 29th Sept 2023, and its been 2 months.
I am so curious about learning this languange.
In my way of learning, mostly 1 wrote 4 times,
1. The pinying
2. Pinying's read in bahasa (I'm Indonesian btw)
3. The meaning of words/ sentence in bahasa or english
4. The hanzi
Of course, it took a lot of time, But up till now the result it quite awesome,
for 2 month learning 1 already spend 2 note books walking to 3, and thank you for your video about how to pronounce chinese vowels and consonant, it was really helpful.
but mostly after wrote hanzi acouple times, not longer after that, i forgot it, untill i repeated to write again more and more,
Should i learn from this door? (learning hanzi) first for accelerate my chinese learning journey?
@@tereciaelshinta waahhh, terimakasih atas sarannya, melelahkan juga jika harus menulis 1 halaman. Tapi akan efektif untuk mengingatnya lebih lama
I am beginner to learn english.Can I make friend with you?I can help you to learn chinese.😊
@@jackyellow-v3j yes what a good news, why not, we can be friends.
@@jackyellow-v3jHi, sounds great, than how about we start it soon?
@@jackyellow-v3jok
Thank you for sharing this, Grace
Thanks so much for another helpful video! I'm currently studying abroad in Taiwan and your videos have been extremely helpful. Keep up the good work. 加油!
Welcome to Taiwan! 謝謝你！我會加油的💪 I hope you enjoy your life in Taiwan☺
I was hoping you talk about 永字八法and九宮格. In next video I hope to see you demonstrate 毛筆字skills. I am sure real impressive!
Haha I'm not that good at 毛筆字😂I only learned it when I was little and have almost lost all the skills now...
老師太謙虛了
Some useful tips. Thank you Grace.
Thank You so much for the video, I have started learning Chinese 63 days ago, I finished my HSK 1 Today and i signed up for the Igcse 0547 Chinese Foreign Language examination for 2025 :). Thank You so much!
加油加油！💪
Thank You for support!
你好、非常感謝。
So I grew up learning a lot of characters through rote but they were the basic characters. I left Taiwan when I was 5 but I can still read (but not write), is that weird? When I see the characters I recall how to pronounce them but can't for the life of me recall how to write it lol but I think that has to do a lot with the compound characters and you remember what that word is. Thought I'd mention this too while it works for Traditional Chinese, have fun with Simplified Chinese!
I also highly recommend people just watch Chinese talk shows lol. Especially the old ones my mum and dad use to watch, I learnt most of my mandrain through those.
Can you recommend any good old talk shows?
I think stroke order for 我 at 2:40 is incorrect - order of the two last strokes should reversed and the dot should be the last one. Anyways great video!
According to official Taiwanese sources, the stroke order in the video is correct. I believe it must be different in China.
You have such a great way of explaining things!! New subscriber here 😃
Do you know the book Remembering Hanzi (traditional or simplified)? That is a based in Remembering the Kanji (🇯🇵 characters). I think that this book isn't very well know to Chinese students
I paid for my first Mandarin lesson when I was in my early 20s, the biggest mistake a teacher could tell their student is: “Yes Mandarin is so hard, harder to learn than ur language! So hard! Many characters!” 😂 Thank God I was born stubborn and mentally strong! 😂 Long story short I found other teachers who told me it’s possible and it’s not that hard! Every language has its own challenges!
Grace, do you have calligraphy worksheets for traditional chinese radicals?
Great tips and great video.
RIP the 回憶默寫法 is literally confusing to me purely because i am SUCH a visual learner! literally the other day i was telling my mum ‘why did i forget how to read 決 and 快 when i’ve been reading it all my life’ 😂😂😂😂
It's 3 am and suddenly I want to learn Chinese writing.
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You're the best!
Thanks! 💕
Is there a resource to learn the 130 elements?
Thank you
very clear
Thank you!!
Why is stroke order so important? I've noticed that these online tools will mark it wrong if the order is wrong. If the end product looks the same, why is order important?
Awesome video!!! Also I subbed :)
I'm glad you liked it! Welcome 💛
@@GraceMandarinChinese your welcome :) and thanks :)
I'm a Chinese teacher and a Linguist and I made a research of my own (took me A LOT of time) and in the 3.5k most used characters from the Chinese Government List there are a total of 1211 components (of which 465 are only used once). The example you gave of 餐 shouldn't be divided into 3 components, but into 2: 食 (food) and 𣦼 (the sound part "can"). The other example 嘴 should be 口 (mouth) and 觜 (the sound "zui"), not 口, 此 and 角.
It is really important you said students should focus on RECOGNIZING characters rather than on writing them. NOBODY WRITES ANYTHING BY HAND these days. The student will just have to type the pinyin and then RECOGNIZING the characters that appear.
You should have also said that there are mainly 3 types of characters: drawings (like 日, 目, 人, 女, etc.), drawing associations (like 好, 森, 名, etc.) and drawings associated with sound (like 吗, 妈, 爸, etc.).
Thank you for dedicating your time to research on Chinese characters. I appreciate your insights, especially regarding the decomposition of components. Different scholars might indeed have varying standards for breaking down characters. My video's data was sourced from “Chinese Linguistics Bureau. (2005). Modern dictionary of frequently used Chinese characters. Beijing: The Commercial Press.” If you're curious, you might find this book an interesting reference. The difference between your calculations and the book's data likely stem from different definitions of components and standards for character decomposition.
Further, I divided “餐” into three components because elements like “歺“, also used in ”𠎀“, are treated as separate components on a website called ”國學大師“ (www.guoxuedashi.net/zidian/bujian/). “又” is another commonly used component, which is why I considered them individually. Similarly, the character '嘴' can be further dissected. While “觜” represents the phonetic part of the word, it can be decomposed into two separate components: “此” and “角”. These components appear independently in various characters, and they are not always linked together. It seems there might be a mix-up between the concepts of components and radicals in your interpretation. While there's overlap, components aren't always meaningful on their own (they don't always present sounds or meanings of the characters). The examples you mentioned (semantic and phonetic radicals) aren't entirely synonymous with components, though different scholars may indeed have their own definitions.
Thanks again for sharing your insights!
Edit: The example I provided earlier, "𠎀", should be considered a variant form of '傑'. Currently, "傑" is the most commonly used form. For more information about "歺", you can visit this link: zi.tools/zi/歺
I write by hand! It helps me remember. But yeah it's a very interesting thing really, it helps me more than just remembering pīnyīn. Now I know what it sounds like and how it's written.
@@dominusanuli3595 I do it too 😶🌫☺
And Sweden, which was a world leader in usage of electronic devices in schools, has recently started removing them from schools. This is due to research and data which clearly show that there is much more damage than benefit to people's brain when they do everything on their computers. Do we really have to go into that direction? Learning how to write by hand will not kill you, you know...
你好！我喜欢看你的视频特别是vlog或者听力的练习。希望你能更多拍这种视频。谢谢。
Well Grace is there a big difference between 是的 and 对
So we Have to start with the 132 componentes first right?
great video. keep it up.
But how to recognize characters before writing them without writing them.
Is this traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan? Or simplified Chinese characters as used in mainland China?
can u type bopomopo on your video ? that can help more for our to learning
I am beginner to learn english.Can I make friend with you?I can help you to learn chinese.😊
Good stuff! Xie Xie!
Thank you first comment
Grace 老師，我認識大概2000字了，可是不太會寫。想要練習寫字，您可以推薦在哪裡可以買繁體字的字帖嗎？我在網上看好像很多是簡體字，或者專為書法聯繫的。
It's great
Great i like ❤
可不可以多发一点vlog❤❤
I am a Chinese individual and would like to make friends whose native language is English. If you're interested in Chinese, I believe we can become speaking practice partners.
Yes I need help can we be friends 🙏
@@一个生命 Of course, how can we contact you?
So, did it work?
so pretty
hola sabes español creo , ??? eres de taiwan ,podrias hacer en español
I think i hold the secret to being able to forget traditional chinese characters. I can learn a word, then look at it 10 seconds later and have no idea what it is.
Nice video
我是來學英文的
练习很多！
I was learning Chinese. I asked a girl from Taiwan how she learned all the Chinese characters. She told me that every day in school they were given a few characters to learn, and the next day the teacher checked to see if the student learned them. If the student did not learn them, he got hit with a stick. So I decided not to bother too much with the Chinese characters for the most part and know the pin yin instead, cuz I don't want to have to find someone to hit me with a stick.
Strange as it may sound, I feel like this method would work for me!
Have any teacher has what's app???
Hey beauty, Can you make a video about 3500 character from 132 component or give us a link
ok
I think Chinese characters are not hard to learn, all it takes is practice and a little bit of imagination ❤😂
She looks like kazuha(le sserafim) and Asa(Babymonster) at same time
Disney Pixar Inside Out 2
Someone once pointed out squeaky voice or vocal fry to me. Now if I hear it it's all I hear!😂
The only efficient way to learn Chinese characters is to look at their original oracle bone shapes. For example, how the heck am I supposed to memorize 'summer' 夏 xià? No logic there at all! Easy, just look at the original: a picture of a man kneeling before the sun. It might help if you learn that at the time of its creation the character read, and the word was pronounced not xià, but KRAːʔ. What the heck is KRA? Well, that's the ancient endonym of the 'Chinese' people, the Huaxia, or the Magnificent KRA. By the way, KRA also happens to be the endonym of Austronesian/Tai-Kadai/Kradai people who had populated central and eastern China before the (proto-)Chinese arrived from Tibet arount 4000 years ago. The (proto-)Chinese invaders forced the locals to learn the Sino-Tibetan words, but the grammar was lost forever. The process was called 'dramatic creolization' by the linguists. Which is why Chinese now has Tibetan words, but not Tibetan grammar.
That's the proper way to learn Chinese characters!
I wish you spoke more more Chinese in your videos. I enjoy watching them but as a Chinese learner it’s a waste of time to listen to English.
I have studied English humor for many years. I have created a lot of videos to teach Chinese in a graphic and humorous way. The examples given in the teaching include Chinese humor or English humor.
I wonder why so few people watch my videos.
#1 tip is get a Chinese gf and text them
This is so complicated. Ill never be able to understand sadly
Are you half japan?
No. I'm Taiwanese :)
im cooked guys
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Grace, your classes are terrible.
Omg my girlfriend is back
Cool. But the way she pronounced it *charaWters* is a bit annoying;
if it had said just for a few times, maybe it's not really a problem, but since she said *charaWters* too many times, she should have learnt it better to say it properly.