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Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as hanja, and Vietnamese in a system known as chữ Nôm. Collectively, they are known as CJKV characters. In English, they are sometimes called Han characters. Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world.
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Mandarin (i/ˈmændᵊrɪn/; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally: "speech of officials") is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is also referred to as the "northern dialect(s)". When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers (nearly a billion) than any other language.
A northeastern-dialect speaker and a southwestern-dialect speaker may have difficulty communicating, except through the standard language. Nonetheless, there is much less variation across the huge Mandarin area than between the non-Mandarin varieties of southeast China. This is attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas.
The capital has been within the Mandarin area for most of the last millennium, making these dialects very influential. Some form of Mandarin has served as a national lingua franca since the 14th century. In the early 20th century, a standard form based on the Beijing dialect, with elements from other Mandarin dialects, was adopted as the national language. Standard Chinese, which is also referred to as "Mandarin", is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (Republic of China) and one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is also one of the most frequently used varieties of Chinese among Chinese diaspora communities internationally.
[CC] English subtitles [CC] 開啟字幕 www.ABCsOfChinese.com All 100,000 Chinese characters are merely different combinations of 400 simple pictographs and ideographs (think Egyptian hieroglyphs). In order to rapidly learn Chinese characters and successfully retain them, the secret is to first thoroughly master these 400 basic pictographic components! Our radical approach ("部首", ha ha) to quickly mastering copious amounts of Chinese characters is this: Learn the basic pictographic components 幺 艹 白 木 before attempting to the learn the Chinese character 藥. Consider for a moment that in chemistry you learn the basic elements of the periodic table before learning more complex compounds. Similarly, in phonetic languages like English you learn the basic phonetic symbols A B C before you learn a c...
** Sign-up for you free trial here: https://remembr.it/chinese-characters Learning Chinese characters is easier than many students realize. The problem is that many students are still studying Chinese characters using out-dated and inefficient methods. To understand the best way to learn Chinese characters it's useful to understand how they were originally developed. This video gives a brief explanation of the main ways in which characters have been developed by looking at different character types, including: - pictographic characters - indicative and associative characters - and most importantly, the picto-phonetic characters Of these, the picto-phonetic method is responsible for 80% of Chinese characters and is the key to learn Chinese characters efficiently. By studying series ...
Animated Cartoon to remember 14 Chinese Characters and Character components. This is part of my cartoon series to help beginner and intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese, as well as Cantonese and Japanese, memorize character parts. When you first look at a Chinese text, it may seem that characters are made out of random strokes and dots, but it's not so. In fact, there are just a few dozen so-called radicals, and maybe a couple hundred otherwise classified character components, that comprise a fair share of most commonly used characters, which is not that much after all. If I can do it, you can do it. BTW you can spend your time better re-watching the video than reading this nonsense, as I'm only writing it cause I heard putting lots of key words and Kangxi Radicals along with Kanji ...
I found this video on youtube. I uploaded it again. So that I could add English comments/annotations on it.
Animated cartoon to help you memorize, once and for life, a few basic character parts, which many people confuse! Remembering Chinese Characters is quick and easy if you know the parts of the character. Whether you are a beginner, an intermediate or an advanced student, you'll find many radicals are similar to each other. How to differentiate between them? You can watch my cartoon series that aims to do just that. For other characters check out the following free resources http://www.wordbuddy.com/ http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php where you can see character parts along with translations. Whatever you do, don't read on as it will be for youtube algorythms so my vid shows up in search. I therefore mention Cantonese and Japanese, and Beijing and Guangdong and even Shanxi a...
Get all 100+ Chinese character lessons in our YOYO 300 course! Get started now here: http://bit.ly/1NLScc7 Welcome to the YOYO 300 Chinese Character Course! Get excited to learn how to crack the code of Chinese characters! In this introductory lesson, you will learn: • An introduction of the Chinese character component concept • An introduction to the completely systematic building block nature of Chinese characters • How to effectively learn Chinese characters Can’t wait to start helping you prove to yourself and others that Chinese is not too hard to learn! ^__^ -Your teacher, Yangyang Cheng ***Bonus! See how to say each sound in Mandarin with our FREE Video-based Pinyin Chart. It has 90+ video explanations for difficult Mandarin sounds and audio demonstrations for all 400+ pinyin...
There's a stroke-by-stroke way to write every Chinese character. Here's how I got used to hànzì and kanji stroke orders, and why even then they still threw a few punches. Subscribe for language! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang ** Past viewers have objected to my use of historical gotchas and exceptions. If that's you, 02:49 is the perfect place to end the story. (You'll see me go from "too hard" to "too easy"!) Maybe skip to 04:52 to see the punching Hànzì. ** Forgive the mismatched audio. I rerecorded the intro. Learning kanji and hànzì means writing the right strokes in the right order. As if there weren't enough to pay attention to... At first, this seemed like the last straw. The moment I fully realized this was utterly unlike other writing systems. ...
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The Most Difficult Chinese Character, written step by step. According to the wikipedia article, it says it's "Biáng, a kind of noodle in Shaanxi". See also some of my clues on learning languages http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y7uL6DoJXk Teacher Farias
With this Chinese Wordtoon dog you can learn to write the character for dog 犬 then easily remember how to write it by sketching sketch the character into a cool cartoon dog. Wordtoons combines words with cartoons and the meaning and works for Chinese as too. Funny cartoons from letters can work for all languages and this Wordtoon dog in chinese is a great example. The Chinese written language started out as pictorgrams, which are letters that are a drawing of what they mean. But over time the letters change and become simplified. Only about 5% of the full 20,000 Chinese characters are photographic now, although many characters are made of interesting combinations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------...
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