How to Learn Chinese Characters | Introduction to Chinese Characters

In this lesson I'll give you tips and tricks to help you learn Chinese Characters.
Did you know that most Chinese Characters give you hints about their meaning and even their pronunciation? This lesson covers the different kinds of characters that are useful for chinese learners including pictographs, simple ideographs, compound ideographs, and semantic phonetic compounds. I'll also show you how more complex chinese characters are buit from simpler components, and give you other information that will help you to understand and more easily learn Chinese Characters.
Additionally, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to start a series of lessons that teach to read and write Chinese Characters. In each lesson I'll teach you new characters as well as give you tips to help memorize them, and show you to write them.
I hope you enjoy rthis lesson!
Yishuang
P.S., if you are interested in private lessons, please send me a message on my website - HarbinMandarin.com

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