Does anyone who knows or is learning Chinese have any advice on how to remember characters? I can easily remember definition and pronunciation, and can recognize the characters on paper. I guess if you know Japanese you could also help.
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For me I make up little things to describe what I see in the character. I make the characters into pictures so that when I am writing I can rember what the picture is and then remember the strokes and such. Alot of times these are influenced by pop-culture ie something I can rember easily. For example the character dai, I rember it by the saying "I'm charging my lasers," since it looks like a laser and gains powerr as you draw it.
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do many exercise write chinese characters on paper,again and again,and u should be pay attention to the ranking of stroke,then u can not forget them. the usual characters only 4,000 in chinese,so if u remember them about 3/4,u will success,it's easy than english,many new word of professional field has been created,most of them r too long to remember,and u must ask specialist to know what do them means.but in chinese u can aviod almost situation occur in english. u can simply know the means which build up by some single character,at least which field does it belong in the rough.
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One of the ways is to recognize the pictogram to enhance memorization. Reference: http://www.chineseonthego.com/write/pictogram.html . But not every character is a pictogram. Complement it with radicals -- the categorization of the characters. Reference: http://www.chineseonthego.com/write/radical.html . Although these two methods will not be applicable to all characters, they are already useful for many,many characters.
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Study everything! Don't look for one or two resources and expect to learn everything from them. When someone asks which book, CD, or computer program is best to learn from, I say, "All of them!" I learned something from every Chinese language-related book I've ever read. Read a lot and you'll learn a lot. I like the book "Rocket Chinese" by Lin Ping, which gives a nice overview of the language with lots of examples from real Mandarin. Resources- http://mandarin.about.com/ http://in.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4E31423D4420774B&playnext=1&v=KSjpDj4s03k http://learnchinesereviews.com/Chinese-Vocabulary-Lessons Cheers James
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