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Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the world's oldest writing system, the world's first civilization, and the world's most popular language? With Hanzi Gong's Shuangfa Method, you'll learn to read and speak Chinese, understanding what the characters really mean and how the characters are combined to form other characters. You can read Chinese!
Chinese started out as pictograms: pictures of literal objects. These pictures however became stylized and standardized and simplified to make writing easier. The pictures and symbols of the simplest characters are then combined and recombined to form pictophonetic characters which have have at least a phonetic sound key and a semantic key. Chinese characters are a grand puzzle and real joy because each character has an inner logic that conveys its meaning. Chinese is basically sight reading by syllables, and once you understand to start with the pictograms and that the phonetic clues are syllables not letters it becomes a wonderful adventure!This is how you learn Chinese Characters:Thanks for subscribing!
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