Cute characters make Chinese almost easy Amanda Greene, Staff Writer Watching Ni Hao, Kai-lan for the first time is like seeing an animated show of my daughter's Littlest Pet Shop animals.

Chineasy is a strategic, easy-learning project by entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh that teaches people to recognize Chinese characters through simple illustration. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

5 easy tricks to learning Chinese By eddieturkson (blog.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-05-06 16:13. ... For beginners, Chinese characters are nothing more than hieroglyphics.

For ShaoLan, born in Taipei but based in London, Chineasy is more than creating a new model of a phrasebook.It’s an attempt to open a new route into the Chinese language and culture. A one-month ...

We are given easy access to reach every corner of the world with the computer alone. However, there is a growing concern that we Chinese may lose the Chinese characters, ...

In Chinese, most characters are built out of roughly 100 “building blocks.” I designed a program on my computer and then started prioritizing the most common and useful building blocks.

An Easy Hack to ‘Read’ Mandarin Chinese . If English (or any other Romance language) is your first language, you might struggle with Chinese logographs or characters—there are estimated to ...

I speak a little Japanese, having learned the language at elementary level years ago, but it is because I read Chinese characters and the Japanese kana writing system that getting around was easy ...

I learned Chinese as an adult, first in Beijing in the mid 1970s. Being in Beijing, I was taught simplified characters. In later full-time study in Hong Kong, I learned the traditional forms.

The precise strokes of Chinese characters make them relatively easy for a computer to distinguish. Many other methods exist as well. The stroke-count system, for example, ...