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Learn Chinese Characters with mnemonic phrases
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(5 ratings)
858 students

Learn Chinese Characters with mnemonic phrases

For every character a mnemonic phrase is offered.
Created byUlrich Neymeyr
Last updated 2/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Discover and understand the images in the Chinese characters
  • Remember the characters with a mneonic phrase
  • Learn about the radicals (recurring elements) about simularities and differences of the characters
  • Learn to write in the correct stroke order

Course content

1 section5 lectures55m total length
  • Learn about the different radicals that stand for "hand"17:09

    Explore how the hand radical appears in multiple variants across Chinese characters, using mnemonic phrases that link images like nails, an eye, friends, and vegetable.

  • The characters for "arrow" and "to lose"9:02

    Explore how mnemonic phrases help memorize Chinese characters, focusing on the arrow and to lose, their components, radicals, and memory cues like 'arrow hits the target if it knows it'.

  • various Characters of the HSK 1 - Level24:15
  • A short video for the character Europe1:21
  • A short video for the character: "Bell or Clock 钟"3:51

Requirements

  • Some first knowledge about the Chinese language and the characters

Description

You learn to recognize the images, backgrounds and stories hidden in the Hanzi, the Chinese image characters. Many examples are given. And for each character you get a mnemonic phrase.


An emphasis is put on the radicals (= recurring components). For this purpose, different radicals are introduced, followed by the characters that use these radicals. With this approach you can memorize the characters much better. Because 'learning' is after all the connection of the known with the new. (A special feature is that we have not only, as usual, one defined radical per character, but all characters that are recurring in several will be called a radical).


Of course, these videos cannot substitute your own learning. But especially for western people it is extremely tedious to remember the single strokes of the characters. By explaining the background and the mnemonic sentences, the characters are "brought to life", which makes long-term learning easier. So we recommend that you watch the videos at least two or three times.


The presentation is done with the help of the cell phone app "Hanzi-Trainer", where the characters are drawn on a screen with your finger. In this way, you also learn the correct stroke order. The course also uses lists in which the characters are selected according to the radicals.

Who this course is for:

  • You are interested in learning the characters and to remember with mnemonich phrases