Aids to writing Chinese Characters

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Aids to writing Chinese Characters

There are many Chinese characters to learn. One of the easiest ways to learn to read and write is to study

the characters of most common usage. As there are over 40,000 characters it is best to limit your knowledge

to the characters of most common usage or you can go on studying a life time and never finish. I found a list

of these characters on a free site on the internet. . The trick is to learn the 1000 most commonly used Characters

not any old character. Many of the text books teach you to read and write in a manner that is easiest to remember

but some of those characters you may never need. I found a site that carefully put the characters in order of most

common usage. It is a free site. http://www.learnchineseez.com/characters/learn-to-write-chinese/

I had a teacher that sent me to the local book store where she had me buy the books for children on learning

to write. Unlike our western book stores there were more books on math that anything else. I learned at these

book stores that is why the Chinese are better than we Americans in math I bought many children’s books that

taught me to draw as I didn’t follow the instructions. I used to eat in a little restaurant in Lijiang. The owner of the

restaurant sat me at a table with her 7 year old child and we both would do our home work together. Learning to

write Characters was our home work. Another little boy said," Lisa is doing my homework, does that mean she

is going to get younger!"