Mandarin Characters Guide
Hello everyone! ♥️️
I have a lot of unanswered messages in my askbox involving how I learn Mandarin characters, and so I decided to make a guide with all the methods I’ve come up with so far to help everyone who’s having troubles with it :) (This can also work with Japanese kanji)
First, I make sure I know how to recognize the character and its meaning, so I write the new vocabulary like this:
After I’m sure that I know what a certain character means and it’s pronunciation I start learning the stoke order. I print out these beginner writing sheets or just regular writing sheets and fill them in like this:
This is enough to remember and recognize a character for short time but if you want the word to stay in your memory for longer I put even more methods.
Next, follow these steps:
1. Write a (cheat) sheet full of random vocabulary you learned (better make them smaller so you can carry them to school to practice between classes) and it’s supposed to look like this:
2. Chose a notebook where you will write the pinyin and meaning of the characters, in exact order that you wrote hanzi on your (cheat) sheets, it’s supposed to look like this:
3. What you gonna do now is you’re gonna read the pinyin and the meaning of a character and write it down into a different notebook. If you cannot remember the character you can look at you cheat sheet that you made before and write it down couple of times, until you don’t have to look at your cheat sheet anymore that is!
Anddd this is what my notebook for practicing characters looks like:
While writing down the characters you can try and develop your own style, make them cute or classy or try different things, until you know how to write every single character from your cheat sheet.
One more thing you can do is writing sentences using the new vocabulary you learned and adding some grammar structures in there with the new vocab. That way you’re making sure the character won’t be forgotten soon.
I hope this was useful and if my methods helped you please let me know! If you have any questions just shoot me a message cuz I’m here to help ♥️️♥️️
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