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Writing Chinese characters: The purpose

Ninchanese February 28, 2020

I think at one point everyone who starts learning Chinese asks themselves the same questions about writing Chinese:

Do I need to learn to write Chinese characters?
When is the best time to begin with them?
Where do you start?
How do you write Chinese characters? Are there any rules?

With this article, I want to share a bit of my experience in writing characters and maybe a helpful additional way of learning Chinese. To be clear, I’m not talking about the art of Chinese Calligraphy but just casual hand-writing. Handwritten Chinese with a pen a piece of paper.

Advanced, Beginner, Chinese learning tips, Ninchanese, Vocabulary chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese learning, chinese words, learning fundamentals, vocabulary, writing chinese

New world: The Chinese Character Universe – Science-based Chinese character learning

Ninchanese September 18, 2017

You Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce a new science-based world on Ninchanese: the Universe of Chinese Characters – the most advanced way to learn Chinese Characters yet. This all-new word on Ninchanese has been designed with one goal in mind: to drive your Chinese character acquisition like no other. In a world that goes back to the Big Bang of Chinese, you’ll easily learn characters in a newly optimized way. Feeling excited? Let’s see what this new world is all about. To infinity, and beyond!

Advanced, Beginner, Chinese learning tips, Intermediate, Ninchanese, Vocabulary algorithm, character decomposition, Chinese character components, Chinese character decomposition, Chinese characters, chinese words, meaning, phonetic, radicals, science

Chinese Word Building: How to say to joke in Chinese

Ninchanese October 20, 2016

Time for a new word-building! Today’s “Play with Chinese words” concerns Chinese humor! It’s all about playing and laughing. You are with your friends and one of your friends cracks a joke. everyone laugh and so the party starts. It’s the best time of your life for sure. A joke a day keeps the doctor away! So let’s play with the Chinese words 玩 and 笑 ! Together, they make the word 玩笑 , have you heard of it? If you haven’t, no worries. Read on and we’ll explain everything to you.

Vocabulary, Wordbuilding building blocks, character breakdown, Chinese characters, chinese words, fun, meaning, wordbuilding

Chinese word building: to surf

Ninchanese October 12, 2016

Time for a new word-building, water edition! In today’s Play with the Chinese word, we explore the word 冲. When you combine it with a second word, you get a new Chinese word that is really fun to do. It’s also a great way to understand how word-building works in Chinese! Can you imagine what the Chinese word for to surf is? Surfing? Are you ready to hit the waves?

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How Many Chinese Characters Do I Need To Learn?

Ninchanese May 24, 2016

How many Chinese characters do I need to learn? You may have wondered that when starting Mandarin, as many many learners do when embarking on the wonderful journey that is learning Chinese. Read on to know the answers to these essential questions and all about Chinese characters. Besides learning how many characters there are in Chinese, you’ll see how many the average Chinese knows and how much you need to learn to reach conversational fluency in Chinese!

Beginner, Chinese learning tips, Ninchanese chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese learning, chinese words, learn Chinese, learning, learning fundamentals, speak Chinese

Emotions in Chinese: Express your feelings!

Ninchanese May 29, 2013

Learn how to express emotions in Chinese! And seriously, what better way to learn how to say how you’re feeling in Chinese than by looking at pictures of cute animals making very human-like faces?

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