DO YOU FEEL THAT ... THE MORE CHINESE CHARACTERS YOU LEARN, THE MORE CONFUSED YOU GET?
LEARN CHINESE CHARACTERS AND THEIR STROKE ORDER QUICKLY
I have learnt so many characters but it is difficult to squeeze everything into my memory.
* Are there easier ways to remember these characters' appearances?
* How to find patterns in Chinese characters?
* Can Chinese characters be formed, similarly like English words, using 'alphabets'?
* How to remember the stroke order of Chinese characters quickly?
DECLUTTER AND GET ORGANISED
Learn 32 Stroke Patterns and remember 200+ qTRAILS Alphabets Easily
Build a Mental Map of Chinese Characters
Expand your Memory Capacity and Speed up Learning
VISUAL LEARNING
Learn the Stroke Order of Chinese Alphabets through Colours
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Name: Easy way to remember Chinese Alphabets
DESIGNED FOR ANYONE—WITH OR WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF CHINESE
You'll love this book if you like to be engaged through a variety of activities (visually, kinesthetically, aurally)
GET ORGANISED TO FREE UP MENTAL SPACE
Here are some of the ways we'll help you to declutter your mind to learn Chinese
1. IDENTIFY WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO LEARN AND PRIORITISE
Determine if you are learning simplifed or traditional Chinese characters. This series of books focus on simplified Chinese characters only.
Focus on one task at a time and clear away everything else. Learn to 'see' before learning how to speak, read and write. Focusing on appearance is easier to start and master and this will give you confidence to continue. Pronunciation requires more time as you need to train the muscles in your tongue and attune your ears to the new sounds.
2. SEE PATTERNS AND BUILD EASY STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
If you are able to notice patterns in characters, you can develop a way to classify and store them. Learn a systematic way of storing and retrieving characters by their appearance.
3. MAKE IT MANAGEABLE
When you know that what you need to learn is finite, that is there is a fixed number of alphabets that you need to learn, you will have more confidence to manage your learning. For instance, in English there are only 26 alphabets and all words must be formed with them and they are always arranged from left to right.
For Chinese language, if you know that there is a fixed number parts that you are going to encounter, you will find that each new character you learn are made up of parts you are familiar and it is not a totally new encounter. You know where the boundaries are, as there will not be new encounters that will surprise or stress you.
4. APPLY 80/20 RULE
Instead of learning a few thousands characters, learn 200 over alphabets which can be classified into 32 stroke patterns!
Instead of learning every possible structures of Chinese characters, learn only the basic structures and how they can be applied to decipher characters with more complex structures in subsequent books.
5. PUT ROUTINE WORK ON AUTO-PILOT MODE
If you know that there are standard ways to decipher characters and write them, you can build routines that train you to work on an auto-pilot mode without much effort. Efforts can be diverted for other learning.
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