8th Avenue Chinese Characters Class

Can you draw a simple line?  If so, oh boy, do we have the character for you!  Here, you'll start with the simplest possible character and build on it to learn 9 more.  Buckle up.

Here, you'll learn 6 more characters.

Are you sensing a pattern here?  You'll learn 7 more characters here. 

Yep, three more characters.  But these three are kind of cool because they only have one component in them, repeated.  Pshaw, and people say Chinese characters are hard!

OK, we're easing you into this one here,  only 3 characters - all descended from 三. 

Here we build on 人 to make a few new characters.

Here are a couple more characters building on 人.

Here you'll learn 2 pairs of very similar characters.

Let's learn 小 and then build on it.

We're not gonna lie; one of these characters is kinda funky looking and looks basically like scribbles to non-native speaker.  But don't get scared.  You've totally got this!

Cake and eyeballs, my friends.  Cake and eyeballs...just watch the video, and you'll know what we mean.

OK, here you'll learn 3 new characters, and 2 of them are some of the most common Chinese characters you'll see.

Here are 5 more super common characters and radicals and one that you don't see much but is important for learning some of the others.

On your left! (You'll get that after you finish the video.)

The theme here of this one is family.  You'll learn the characters for woman and good.

Here you'll learn one new radical and 4 characters.  Two of them are pronouns, which are kinda important if you wanna talk about anything involving people.  So get ready to learn.

OK, here we go:  4 more characters, all of which have a common element.  Seriously, Chinese characters aren't that hard!

OK, here we have 4 more, one of which is a radical that appears in TONS of other characters. 

After you've learned the characters in this video, you'll officially know how to pronounce and understand 78 Chinese characters!  That's awesome! 

Here you've got another 2 super common characters, one of which means door and the other of which is a plural marker.

Here you go, another 2 very common characters, one noun and one verb.

Here we have 2 characters related to length and time as well as some phrases that use them.

Four new characters here, all of which are similar to each other and very common.  Get your eyes ready to examine the differences and learn!

Here you'll learn 4 new characters and a radical that you'll see in a lot of other characters. 

Here's a mix of characters and radicals, most of which involved speech.  These are super common, so you'll see these all over the place.

Here are three new characters, two of which are often confused by Chinese learners.  We'll show you how to tell them apart.

How do you say country?  How do you say year?  You'll learn that here.

Here are another two characters with very different meanings that look very similar. 

"Six characters at once?! That's a marathon!"  Nah, you can do this!

Here you go, a few new characters that all revolve around similar radicals.

A bit of a breather here, only three characters in this one, two verbs and a noun, all very common.

Here you have 6 characters and a radical.  A couple of these are easily confused, and another couple of them make an extremely common word together.

Here are four new ones, two of which are very similar, all of which are very common.

In this one, you'll learn four more, including "money" and "cloud", which look really similar.

Here's a new radical and some other really common characters.

In this one, you'll learn some great conjunctions and another character, too.

Here you'll learn two new characters, one of which means "go".

Here are five more, two of which are super similar.

In this one, you'll learn a very common radical and a few other characters, one of which means "many".

This one only has three characters, one of which is a very important verb that means "can; be able to".

Another longer video here.  You'll learn a few characters that are often mistaken for each other and also a new radical.

In this group of four, you'll learn how to say "all" as well as "friend", among other words.

Here's the last one for this section.  Here you'll learn two ways to write the word for "water" and a word used to negate things.

Only three in this one, one of which is a number.

This is another long one, oneof which is a very common particle and one of which is sort of a helper verb. Good stuff!

In this series of five characters, you'll learn a great verb and the radical for "bamboo" among other things.

Here you'll learn four new ones, one of which means "road; way".

Only three here, including two very common verbs.

Five more here, one of which  means "beautiful".

In this one, you'll learn five characters that all have the same right half as well as the radical for "heart".

Here are five more, one of which is the conjunction "but".

One of the characters you'll learn here means "now".