It is quite common to introduce pictographic characters with their representations to novice Western learners in order to familiarize them with reading words in visual characters, instead of in the Western alphabetical form. To let it be clear, Chineasy is not the first pictographic system of teaching Chinese characters. So after this introduction, the book begins teaching all of the 150 basic characters and another 250 characters derived from the original 250. Using these basic characters, many more complex and abstract words can be formed, either through : having two simple words joined together to form pictophonetic characters such as 吗 (which uses 口 and 马), where one word gives meaning and the other gives sound, or by having two pictograph characters joined together to provide a whole new different meaning, such as in 休, which combines 木 and 人, since in ancient times, most people would rest under trees after working in the field all day long.
In this organizational method, pictograph-type characters are the foundation for understanding the written Chinese language, the so- called ” building blocks”. Shao Lan first begins explaining the logic behind her work by distinguishing the “building blocks”,” compounds” and “phrases” in her scheme and how do they work together to create meaning. This is not the first time has mentioned the work of Shao Lan, however it is the first time we actually saw her work concretized in an comprehensive form of all of her images. Although it shows examples of sentences with the words learned, it does not teach anything about syntax and grammar, since the great majority of the words are nouns.
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Does not teach how to write the characters or their stroke count for consulting the dictionaryMemorizing new characters from the pictures in the book may cause dependency on the illustrations, since the reader may not recognizethe written characters in books and other without the aid of the pictures.Most recommended for visual learners, children and elder learners as a form of familiarizing with the Chinese characters.Excellent tool for creating visual mnemonic devices for novice to intermediate learners.Soon available in multiple languages and countries.
Slay it, play it, and level up your memorization game to face the final boss - FLUENCY. Chinese is no longer daunting to learn! Chineasy starts with a map, and you are the protagonist for the rest of the journey.
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