learn to read chinese with ease!

Shao Lan: Learn to read Chinese with ease!

ShaoLan’s mother was a calligrapher that showed her the form of Chinese character. She was fascinated by the incredible language. she started thinking about a new method of learning Chinese in order people to understand and appreciate the sophisticated language.

The Chinese scholar would understand 20,000 characters, 1000 to understand the basic literacy, 200 to allow us to comprehend 40% basic literacy such as reading road signs, restaurant menu. In that video she starts with 8 characters.

First shape we called mouth, its shape like the mouth opens widely until it’s square.

Second shape is person, a character like a person walks.

Third shape is fire, appears like a person with two arms- left and right.

Fourth shape is tree, which has branches like tree.

Fifth shape is mountain, which has three vertical lines that form a mountain.

Sixth shape is sun, which have two square.

Seventh shape is moon, which have two square but it is smaller than sun.

The last is symbol of the door, that look like pair saloon door.

With eight character above we can create more characters. Such as person symbol, if there are two symbol of person (beside), it means ‘follow’ (another person follow you, so he or she must be beside you). If tree symbols are two together, it means woods, if three trees mean forest. Two fire symbols together  mean hot, three fires mean flame, fire symbol underneath tree symbol it means burning.

With learning 8 characters above our learning has comprehend about 32 characters. Then, trying to make phrases, for example: the fire and the mountain symbol we put together so we call volcano.