Chinese Characters - Will Remembering Simplified Hanzi Help You Learn Chinese Characters?

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This book was written to address a specific problem for a specific learner. The learner is the "Westerner" from a non-character language background, and the common problem is the inability to remember how to HANDWRITE CHARACTERS FROM MEMORY, even after regular practice. The book is not trying to teach the Chinese language per say, but it is trying to help adult Western learners build and retain a SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE of 1 how to remember a character's general meaning in English and 2 how to handwrite that character from memory without any other aid. A common word learning order in a textbook would be “你，好，我，很，呢，吗，是，不，学，生，老，师，美，中，英，国” etc. Although the words for these characters might naturally come up early in your Chinese study, the components of the characters themselves are all completely different from each other and don't really help you to organize them in a way that's easy to remember. As a result you're forced to "grind out" each one at a slow pace, spending a LOT of time that could be used for more vocab, reading and grammar practice. Compare that with the characters in the second chapter in this book: “古，胡，叶，吾，朋，明，唱，晶，品，昌，早，旭，世，胃，旦，凹，凸". They are organized according to their main components, not their meaning or usage. This chapter focused mainly on 口, 月 and 日. Although the characters you learn are not immediately seen in daily life (古 means ancient for example), as a whole they do comprise the 1500 most commonly used characters needed for "daily fluency". I usually recommend that my students practice this book on one hand for WRITING MEMORY and treat our Chinese language course as a separate system for regular language skills. Then bit by bit they start to see crossover between the two. It requires a certain level of commitment that is meant for a long-term payoff in 2 forms. First, it helps students build a strong understanding of basic character components and their meanings when use in other characters (月 for body parts for example). Second, it helps students get over that critical "brick wall" of character writing that causes so many to quit after their first year. Remembering the Simplified Hanzi is not for everyone, but for many learners, the system has been a critical component that helped them solve the problem of character memory and writing.
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