Training Your Hand rather than Your Brain
I've seen many many people bought a huge stack of Chinese characters cards, roughly 1000 at least, to study. They read each card, trying to remember what the character looks like, and read the explanations, and, try to read the sample sentences, but often failed here because there are too many news words in the sample sentences. Then what happened?They quickly forgot what they learned.
Leaning characters is a process of training your hand rather than your brain. If you write enough times, your hand will remember each characters better than your brain can. And your hand will remember those tiny details that differentiate different characters. For example: 已, 己, 巳.
Trust your hand more. It's more reliable.
posted by april zhang @ 11/20/2007 09:08:00 AM
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昨天我去牙医。
Sitting in the dentists chair (I don't know the characters for dentists chair) I learned: 牙疼。
It was very effective.
However, I agree with you that you have to write the characters out to learn to write them. It is the same reason that you have to practice maths or computer programming in order to learn each of those subjects. It is no good to just read about them. The process of taking information in (looking at the characters) and then writing them exercises all the neural pathways and reinforces the learning you have done.
Another reason for practicing your characters is so that your writing doesn't look like a child's writing.
It is very obvious in Chinese classes who has been writing characters for a long time. When there are Japanese speakers in the class their character writing abilities are usually so much better than us 百人。
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