The first 300 Chinese characters look like the subject they are describing. At a certain point, the characters become more complicated, and then I become lost. Do you have any advice for learning characters from HSK 3 and onward? Do you use pictures to remember their meaning? Or rote memorization?
yea, my advice is to keep going! haaaa I kid a little bit seriously a large part of learning the characters is to simply keep going. Don't get caught up on why you can't remember this, or why you get these confused, just keep going. You'll encounter those characters again at a later time. Do your best to learn as well as you can the first go through, but don't dwell on the issue of trying to remember every single one the first time you see it. As for how, graded readers with pinyin (published by BLCU press here in Beijing) were good companions, they have a series of books dedicated to foreigners learning Chinese. DuChinese has been an APP I've been using as of late that allows me to just read the Chinese, but it also has pinyin as an option. Finally, the cheapest and easier solution is to start writing out the characters 25 times each. Get a notebook, writer HSK 3 CHARACTERS (in English and Chinese) up top, and dedicate that notebook to writing out every single HSK 3 and 4 character 25 times. This way you'll learn how the characters are constructed, learn several of the radicals, and help you keep in contact with the characters which will help your reading which will help your vocabulary which will help your spoken language as well. Hope that helps! Let me know if there's anything else I can help out with!
The first 300 Chinese characters look like the subject they are describing. At a certain point, the characters become more complicated, and then I become lost. Do you have any advice for learning characters from HSK 3 and onward? Do you use pictures to remember their meaning? Or rote memorization?
yea, my advice is to keep going! haaaa I kid a little bit seriously a large part of learning the characters is to simply keep going. Don't get caught up on why you can't remember this, or why you get these confused, just keep going. You'll encounter those characters again at a later time. Do your best to learn as well as you can the first go through, but don't dwell on the issue of trying to remember every single one the first time you see it.
As for how, graded readers with pinyin (published by BLCU press here in Beijing) were good companions, they have a series of books dedicated to foreigners learning Chinese.
DuChinese has been an APP I've been using as of late that allows me to just read the Chinese, but it also has pinyin as an option.
Finally, the cheapest and easier solution is to start writing out the characters 25 times each. Get a notebook, writer HSK 3 CHARACTERS (in English and Chinese) up top, and dedicate that notebook to writing out every single HSK 3 and 4 character 25 times. This way you'll learn how the characters are constructed, learn several of the radicals, and help you keep in contact with the characters which will help your reading which will help your vocabulary which will help your spoken language as well.
Hope that helps! Let me know if there's anything else I can help out with!