amzing fact about chinese characters
i had hold that it's the biggest problem to utilise grammar flexiblely for foreign mandarin learners before i visited italki ...
but the fact, amazing me a lot ,is that most foreigners have trouble in writing chinese characters. a guy even asked whether it's ok to use pinyin only.
my career aim is to be a teacher of Chinese language to foreigners. thus, i want to conduct a survey about how to remember chinese characters.
though my english has not reached the teaching-required level, preparing for the future work will never be too early.
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amzing fact about chinese characters
Before I first came to italki I had hold believed that it's the biggest problem for foreign mandarin students (I have re-arranged the phrase order, just as you would if I wrote this in Chinese! :D ) is to utilise the grammar flexibly; for foreign mandarin learners before i visited italki ...
but amazingly, the fact amazing me a lot is that most foreigners have trouble in writing Chinese characters. A guy even asked whether it's ok to use pinyin only (remember that young children still start with pinyin and accumulate hanzi as they go).
My career aim is to be a teacher of Chinese language to foreigners. Thus, i want to conduct a survey about how to remember Chinese characters.
Tough my Eglish has not reached the teaching-required level for teaching, it's never too early to start preparing for the future the future work will never be too early.
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For me memorising the characters isn't the problem, it's having time and motivation to learn how to write them by hand. I have a job in Shanghai and work with Chinese colleagues so it's important for me to learn how to speak and read, but with computers and iphone I can communicate in 汉字 without writing by hand. So the issue is how can I justify spending 10 years learning to write Chinese when I already work and communicate day-to-day with Chinese. I think it's important if you really want to master Chinese and if you're a young student specialising in Chinese then it's worth learning.
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i remember that when i was in elementary school, i learnt pinyin at the beginning , and then ,i can read the characters BUT i usually made mistakes in writing, sometimes added an extra 一 or 丶. according to this, i guess ,i regarded characters as shapes or images instead of text. maybe you can have a try:just remember the shapes and have some impression of characters, the following step is to know what strokes are included in characters .
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I am struggling with this problem (to remember Chinese characters) right now. I am starting to believe that pinyin actually gets in the way of my learning. When I learn pinyin, I learn vocabulary, but don't retain the characters. I have been using http://memrise.com which has some good ways to learn using mnemonics. I also use flashcards by myself. My tutor here on italki.com makes flashcards of Chinese characters and uses them to teach me recognition and pronunciation. Writing the characters by hand, repeatedly, helps a lot.
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