studying hard or taking a course in chinese linguistics, they can help u to memorize chinese characters. But studying in chinese linguistics will cost ur time... so up to u. I think chinese linguistics is very interesting, for example, 武(violence,war,military force, etc) comes from the combination of 止(to stop, to end) and 戈(to fight, an archaic weapon in china). So the real meaning of 武-violence is to stop war, stop violence. hope my explanation can help u to understand the meaning of chinese characters and how to memorize them.

You are correct. People at a young age in China are taught to write these over and over again. If your weakness is writing then practice is the only way to learn. Practice practice practice. 实践实践实践 I am just starting to learn Chinese so I look up characters when I need to write them. My mobile phone has a dictionary that helps me. Good Luck!

You should either write more often or use some other method. But just reading won't do. I believe in English "китайские иероглифы" are called "Chinese characters", and "ключи" are called "radicals" (部首). (I' not trying to be a smart one here.. but I've encountered the problem when people couldn't understand what I meant by "keys".) You may read my answer about remembering characters, that's the way I learn characters. http://www.italki.com/answers/question/122347.htm I've seen your posts in Chinese here... There's no way I can write something like those... But I know a lot of characters as for a beginner (both traditional and simplified). And in most cases I never forget how to write them. Really... it's more likely that I'll forget the reading or tone=) But there's one bad thing... Some simplified characters are more difficult to remember using that method than traditional ones.. It took an eternity.... to remember 书.. I just needed to write it over and over.. whereas remembering traditional form took only a second 書=聿+日. But for most characters this method works just well. I hope it helps a bit.

Just begin with some easy and single characters like 一, 二, 三, 山, 日, 月, etc.

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