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| 信 心 | xìn xīn | confidence | |
| 山 峰 | shān fēng | mountain peak | |
| 雨 点 儿 | yǔ diǎnr | raindrop | |
| 读 音 | dú yīn | pronunciation | |
| 大 部 分 | dà bù fen | mostly | |
| 森 林 | sēn lín | forest | |
| 表 示 | biǎo shì | show | |
| 老 | lǎo | old | |
Chinese character is an important part in Chinese culture; it’s also the liveliest feature of Chinese language. According to character structures, Chinese character can be divided into phonograms, pictographic characters, and associative characters, etc. According to the writing style, Chinese character can be divided into running script, grass style, and regular script, etc. Many people think the most difficult part of Chinese language is Chinese character. Most people learn pinyin very well, but they can’t recognize any Chinese characters. Can we learn Chinese language just by learning pinyin without Chinese characters? Is there any good approach to learn Chinese characters? After learning this topic, you will know the answer.
汉字是汉语的重要组成部分，同时也是汉语最鲜明的特点之一。在构成上，汉字分为形声字，象形字，会意字等等；在形体上，汉字又分为行书，草书，楷书等等。很多人都觉得汉语中最难学的部分就是方方正正的汉字，以至于很多人拼音学得很好，而汉字却一个也不认得。到底学汉语是不是可以不学汉字只学拼音呢？学习汉字又有什么好的方法呢？学习了这一课，大家就明白了。
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Comments<img src='/site_media/flag/us.gif' alt='united states' /> Jhett September 15, 2013 at 2:49 p.m.
Thank you, Unk Dicko. This experimental project for "Interactive Blog Workshop" is really fun and interactive.This blog activity is not a one-way "Same Place. Different Times. Different Journey" project. Everyone young and old with some ways of our attachment to a place now or once upon a time our homeland will remember them. Never mind if they are located elsewhere at this moment. These are memories to cherish.The photos posted are "then" and "now". However, nobody can travel the journey on behalf of the path of one ownself...one's own memories and one's enriched experiences...one's own journey!The pics of past years were compiled with the courtesy of contributors donated to National Archives of Singapore and shared on PICAS for our benefits. Not for commercial purposes though.View an enlarged image of this photo CNYST08 . It could be a dated photo someone captured by your elder sister and contributed it long ago to PICAS. Tourists have also taken lots of these pics in the public places where they visit in Singapore.It would be great to mention this section of your "journey" to the "Interactive Blog Workshop Group" on Facebook where more members are added for us to share the "virtual workshop" the knowledge and history for us to learn the development of Singapore over 50 years. Its an educational way to learn with fun. Cheers! http://www.insurerscomparison.com/
<img src='/site_media/flag/us.gif' alt='united states' /> Darnesha September 15, 2013 at 4:47 p.m.
This is really a very cool way to showcase the past juxtaposed with the present. Great job James!Do you know the year the past pics were taken? I think many would wonder about that. In photo CNYST08...unless I'm mistaken totally, a lady shown there could be my elder sister. Chinatown was very close to our hearts as most of my late father's relatives,friends and work mates live there. As a kid, I've accompanied my dad on many visits there, including SAGO street..climbing those ricketty staircase, into the confines of windowless cubicles that are so cramped,so dark and dank that left my young mind with a lifelong respect for all the unfortunate people living within. There were no chairs for us to even sit on during our visits!Our people today, living in modern comfort and many in opulence,should never lose sight of all these things from the past. http://www.carinsuranceinillinois.net/ http://www.sanfranciscoinsurers.com/
<img src='/site_media/flag/sk.gif' alt='slovakia' /> Skip September 17, 2013 at 2:07 p.m.
that when a law is made in China, it seemed to him that everyone thought about how they could obey the law. “When a law is made in the US”, my nephew said, “everyone thinks about how to avoid obeying it.”And, finally, my own observation of cultural differences involves competition. I am quite competitive , and at the time I visited Changchun as a team leader, I was eager to bring along a Scrabble board to help my students improve their English. Of course, I also wanted to teach them to keep score. “After all”, I thought, “what’s the point of playing a game if you don’t know how to keep score.” In the first game, we teamed up: I had one student on my side (Team 1)and there were two students teamed together as our opponents (Team 2).As we played I showed the students the rudiments of the scoring system and how to look for the “hot spots” to double or even triple their score. To my great surprise, when a member of Team 2 caught on, she was very excited to share this information with my partner. She would say to us on Team 1, “Oh, look, you can get a good score here.”I was my observation that while I thought of competing against Team 2, the Chinese students thought of competing against the board. “How can we get a good score using the board”, not “How can we get a better score than our opponents.”It was a lesson for me. In my way, there were losers. In their way, we all were winners. http://www.lowaprcard.net/ http://www.travelrewardscards.net/
<img src='/site_media/flag/se.gif' alt='sweden' /> Matilda September 18, 2013 at 5:55 p.m.
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<img src='/site_media/flag/de.gif' alt='germany' /> Minnie September 20, 2013 at 11:40 p.m.
While living in the Republic of Korea in 1988, I decided to take a two week vacation to China and visit the big cities and the Great Wall. I found two distinct differences: first was one of formality. The Chinese are very formal and polite to those they do not know in greeting one another, saying good-bye or just conversation in general. Americans are very informal in nearly every setting. The second is the non-orderly fashion of doing things. In America, one stands in a line never thinking to rush in front of another person to improve their way to the front. In China I found people shoving each other to be first; I often thought this was due to the sheer number of people - if you didn’t elbow your way through the mass of people, whatever it was you were looking for wouldn’t be available by the time you did get to the front. http://www.comparecashbackcards.net/
<img src='/site_media/flag/bg.gif' alt='bulgaria' /> Bobbie September 22, 2013 at 12:22 a.m.
MY fave among his works…i fell inlove with him because of YAB. Great story and great castings. The ANJELLs are the best. MSON cannot toppled YAB…in popularity, in chemistry, in everything. Tae Kyung, Minam/Mi Nyu, Jeremy and Shinwoo a.k.aKeun Suk , Shin Hye, Hongki, and Yong Wa are amongs the brightest star in Asia and other parts of the worlds after YAB. Amazing how these Anjells are still friends and in contact until now. They had a lot of fun during filming, that’s why they became really close. Sukkie did a lot of drama and films but it’s only in YAB casts that he bacame attached. Sukkie also told recently in interview that YAB is his fave drama and its special to him. HOPE THE ANJELLS REUNITE IN THE COMING 2ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF YAB. I heard some plans are already in the works (wish its true). And Hong sisters WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YAB 2ND SEASON. http://www.lowaprcard.net/ http://www.eben-uk.org/
Roxy September 25, 2013 at 4:47 a.m.
Hello Thomas,I just found your blog through a colleague’s tweet. Love it! I spent 6 months in Guangzhou in 2009-2010. Sabrina’s comment put a huge smile on my face. I have dry, curly hair, which gets extremely frizzy under the “right” circumstances. After living 5 years in Souther Utah, I didn’t remember that, occasionally, I might have the need for an anti-frizz. Guangzhou’s humidity can be devastating. I asked my interpreter/friend to write down “anti-frizz” in Mandarin, so I could go around asking for it. She had a hard time understanding why would I used such a thing and I think nobody understood the concept of it at any of the hair salons! I ended up finding an anti-frizz hair product in Hong Kong. http://www.lowaprcard.net/
<img src='/site_media/flag/ca.gif' alt='canada' /> Issy September 27, 2013 at 5:39 p.m.
YES! A shootout is definitely in order. I was about to try this, but thanks for trying this in advance for me. Haha. I think it's the "grubby joint" that mislead you. The place I'm referring to is somewhat like a coffeeshop, it had two shops in one, order from the mainland staff, not the local ones who tout frog porridge. Walk down the road to the next shop, just beside Mongkok Dimsum. This cold platter dish that you like is pretty uncommon now in Geylang.There's a new shop in Lorong 13, just beside a pub. They have a good selection of side dishes, which you can mix and match in one plate. The kimchi (surprisingly) is pretty good, and I love the kelp strips. What is really excellent and is a must try, is their signature dish, jelly-like flat noodles, kuan fen,a mildly spicy dish. Do feel free to add more vinegar or chilli to customize it. Another place to find the cold tofu strips is Shandong cuisine, it's located at the coffeeshop where it used to be Tanjong Rhu Pau. They have a few cold sides beside a full menu of hot dishes, and even mantou like buns if you like.They have dishes with "Zi Ran" sauce (either with meat or octopus), it is a fennel seed based chinese sauce. http://www.eben-uk.org/
<img src='/site_media/flag/pl.gif' alt='poland' /> Rocky September 28, 2013 at 2:19 p.m.
I’ve been dreading getting my haircut in China, in fact I’ve been trying to avoid it until I realised that I hadn’t had it cut for 2 years and it was rapidly approaching floor length! I finally got it done just last week, it definitely wasn’t fantastic and not surprising I have very curly hair that just seemed to baffle them! I think it’s alot easier for you guys, there’s not much they can get wrong bar accidentally shaving it all off! For us girls there’s just so many styles to consider and hence more ways things can go wrong! http://www.travelrewardscards.net/ http://www.comparecashbackcards.net/
Candid September 30, 2013 at 6:14 p.m.
about the voice recognition “hearing yourself speak is one of the most important ways to improve your pronunciation”. It’s not just pronunciation though, but when you use the language willfully it helps you remember it better. Its not an abstract thought or grammar rule or construction that you’re remembering, but you’re establishing the feeling of how it feels to do it right. Feelings are easier for us to recreate than thoughts in general because they are instinctual and immediate. The paradox of learning a language (or playing a musical instrument for example) is that you can’t do it until you do it. So the first few tries of saying a phrase, (or touching a bow to a violin) often sound awful. But with willful effort to improve though the feeling of doing it right can be easily achieved.I’d like to point out an update since this was written:They recently added level 4 and 5 to the Chinese so the complete set is now 1-5. In the meantime the pricing changed so its actually $499 for 1-5 now and an even better deal. http://www.eben-uk.org/ http://www.lowaprcard.net/
<img src='/site_media/flag/fr.gif' alt='france' /> Marilu September 14, 2013 at 1:37 a.m.
· From my LinkedIn Group Asian Pacific Business (The Power of the APA Market):it is a good idea to have kids learn Chinese as early as possible as Chinese will be more and more popular. My daughter was born in USA and we sent her to Chinese school Sun so she passed Chinese test in Harvard University and no need to take another one, saved time for more important and fun classes. Posted by Dr. Lilly http://www.sanfranciscoinsurers.com/