Learn to read Chinese... with ease! by Shao Lan Hsueh

https://www.ted.com/talks/shaolan_learn_to_read_chinese_with_ease

Shao Lan was interested by interesting language of China. She started to make Chinese might be useful for learners so she think about fast method to learn Chinese. She learned how to draw every new character every day since the age of five. Chinese people would understand 20000 characters, non Chinese only need 1000 to understand the basic literacy. 40% of literature enough to read sign on the street, menus, and newspaper. Shao only demonstrated 8 characters of Chinese language on the stage. By the first eight radical, it allow us to build 32 characters. By understand how to build character, then start to build phrases.

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