The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building ...

a new app from Utopia Online Limited is designed to help primary school students aged 5–11 years learn how to write Chinese characters. This interactive app uses the writing pad of a smartphone ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

University-educated Chinese will normally know 6 - 8,000. In our interactive character game you can learn how to write 60 commonly-used characters. The earliest recognisable characters date back ...

Chinese writing is logographic, that is ... in China have shown that full literacy requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. Learning so many characters is very ...

A participant writes Chinese character "biang" during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 13, 2014. Nearly 2,000 people took part in the ...

Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction ...

Write your name — over and over. You’ll be surprised what you learn. By Jerrine Tan At ... Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers and almanacs to decide my name based ...

But there’s an easy way to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet.

In the ’80s and ’90s, China started to experiment with teaching kids pinyin in school before teaching them how to write Chinese characters. One result was that pinyin became an easier and more ...