Part 1- Introduction to Chinese Characters

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All 100,000 Chinese characters are merely different combinations of 400 simple pictographs and ideographs (think Egyptian hieroglyphs). In order to rapidly learn Chinese characters and successfully retain them, the secret is to first thoroughly master these 400 basic pictographic components!
Our radical approach ("部首", ha ha) to quickly mastering copious amounts of Chinese characters is this: Learn the basic pictographic components 幺艹白木 before attempting to the learn the Chinese character 藥.
Consider for a moment that in chemistry you learn the basic elements of the periodic table before learning more complex compounds. Similarly, in phonetic languages like English you learn the basic phonetic symbols A B C before you learn a complex word like "medicine". Our online curriculum utilizes this same logical "building block" methodology to learn Chinese characters.
Try it out for FREE at www.ABCsOfChinese.com

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@mw24life0123 8 жыл бұрын

can we just take a moment for the amount of pictographs he drew in one video?

@AshlynJoseph 8 жыл бұрын

just amazing. two moments if you will. :D

@ChowPunk 7 жыл бұрын

Matt Carnes amazing drawings indeed

@deegause3713 7 жыл бұрын

QVincent Wang ofqq;1

@dramionewilllive7616 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Carnes I agree

@error101namenotfound.5 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine using those all the time.

@nanhuachuan7261 9 жыл бұрын

i would suggest when you start learning chinese,do not try to figure out how these charaters are formed, just repeat it and keep them in heart like chinese babies.

@user-zb2di8yl8x 7 жыл бұрын

Chuannan Hua 只是认字和认真研究是两回事吧人家认真研究是種透彻的學，有时候还能从分拆字悟道理呢你干嘛非要建议人家只认字

@AS-mo9sh 6 жыл бұрын

Chuannan Hua yeah thats how my teacher is doing t

@kennySg101 5 жыл бұрын

I believe there is a better way of learning chinese. This video will make learning easier.

@whitealliance9540 4 жыл бұрын

That's how any language is learned lmao. You wanna learn a language? Learn with kid style videos

@kermsk3820 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Overthinking about Chinese characters would be like asking someone to study Latin and Ancient Greek affixes before learning English words. Essentially learning meanings before meanings if that makes sense. It may help, but you’re making you’re journey much longer. 想 for example, it’s something to do with feelings. I don’t break it down and think to myself “I’m using my eyes to inspect a tree, so this must convey the idea of blah blah....” I just learn the character and only when is use it in a compound form (想要）should I be thinking of the idea of “want”.

@drewalden2289 4 жыл бұрын

"When you see the letter T, you know it represents the sound 'tuh'" Th: "Allow me to introduce myself"

@tma546 3 жыл бұрын

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@amelial3396 4 жыл бұрын

氵is water 目 is eye 忄is feeling 讠is speaking/information if these are beside or under any character it has those meanings For example: Swimming 游泳 Talk 讲 Speak 说 Emotion 心情

@minazuki5876 4 жыл бұрын

言 is speaking. How can u speak without your mouth “口”

@NPC-W 4 жыл бұрын

@FIVE DOLLARS simplified chinese is for illiteracy it just takes away the meaning of every single chinese character

@Kitulous 4 жыл бұрын

@@NPC-W I guess you're a person that lives in a place where traditional Chinese characters are used, so you defend them. Simplified Chinese is made so you don't break your hands writing millions of strokes to imply basic meaning (exaggerated is intentional)

@NPC-W 4 жыл бұрын

@@Kitulous unluckily, some basic meaning of chinese words is mixed up after simplifying. such as: 後(back) and 后(queen), 髪(hair) and 發(happen), 幹(work), 乾(dry), and 干(interfere, and also a part of chinese calendar system) 製(make) and 制(stop) i agree that making chinese easier to learn is a good idea. but mixing up its meaning is just rediculous in making things easy and simple.

@eversign460 4 жыл бұрын

@@NPC-W just how most words are expected to be understood or comprehended by reading the whole sentence. Yet no doubt that tradition ones keep the key concept of some words that we can appreciate

@Dk-ds1lq 4 жыл бұрын

This guy : draws amazing pics Me: struggling to draw a circle This guy: drawing countries Me: struggling to draw a house 😭😂😭😂

@bigdragon5935 4 жыл бұрын

真实

@tma546 3 жыл бұрын

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@tdfhj8gfyhtxmut769 5 жыл бұрын

Why am I watching this? I'm learning Korean😂

@fatichoco7561 5 жыл бұрын

Me too hhh

@chineseeddieg1120 5 жыл бұрын

@@fatichoco7561 same!

@yaaas3542 5 жыл бұрын

Same 😂

@reader2475 5 жыл бұрын

Lol same

@jiada3710 5 жыл бұрын

im learning that too

@CrypticMouse 7 жыл бұрын

I find Chinese so complicated but the explanations of the origins of the characters is very helpful. And I'm completely in awe of the drawing skills! How does anyone draw so perfectly without any mistakes? Must take a lot of practise.

@myumyulily6738 9 жыл бұрын

I`m japanese i can read most these characters:)

@krankenhaus1991 9 жыл бұрын

日本漢字的文化傳承讓日本人到今天都還讀得懂一些中文

@myumyulily6738 9 жыл бұрын

でも中国語は読めません。

@Marianacui 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, because you guys borrowed our characters...but you have anime and cats so we're even :D

@miaoxinlee8780 8 жыл бұрын

追溯到唐朝的时候

@pastelZeit 6 жыл бұрын

yes but can you pronounce in chinese.

@narf0339 5 жыл бұрын

i learned chinese like 30 years ago, i can no longer write most words, but im still able to read them very easily, just a glance, i can read the entire sentence, then instantly i forget how they looks like.

@FlowUrbanFlow 2 жыл бұрын

That's how I've come to read kanji in Japanese. It's more of a feeling and recognition

@ABCsOfChinese 12 жыл бұрын

3. As a side note, I also have been living in Asia and teaching elementary and middle school children for the past 6 years, and can attest that my students, along with their involved parents, loved the animations and have been very supportive of sharing the videos with their friends.

@amyyb3926 10 жыл бұрын

his writing is so pretty, like as someone with a chinese background i cannot ever write that pretty....

@GaGa51194 10 жыл бұрын

Well, he's actually drawing them. So....... yeah..

@lengoc14391 9 жыл бұрын

I'm studying Chinese and try to remember all this characters. It's so hard to remember Chinese characters. Your video is so helpful :) Like your video.

@bysonbai8748 9 жыл бұрын

Hey~I am a Chinese college student.I am glad to have some foreign friends.I can help you to learn Chinese~

@lengoc14391 9 жыл бұрын

Hi, So sorry for late. Now you re living in Chinese or in where? What's your Chinese name? you can call me 金玉

@planaryahihi2134 5 жыл бұрын

@Zharas Kerimbay me too i stutter A LOT sometimes i can't even speak my mother language correctly sad.

@kevinhu7536 4 жыл бұрын

hello ,what cai i do for you?

@jamesjohn802 4 жыл бұрын

祝你成功

@XPK15 5 жыл бұрын

They wrote the hànzì using the correct stroke order, I'm pleased.

@NoodyAlhothaly 8 жыл бұрын

to be literate you only need to know 4000 characters :) as if this little hahhaha

@tyan4380 6 жыл бұрын

and I can't read Shakespear with 4000 English words , not even close to pass TOEFL with 60 .

@ZenFox0 5 жыл бұрын

Well, if you learn just one character a day, you could be literate within 11 years. :) 4000 characters / 365 days = 10.96 years But odds are you can learn more than one word/character per day, so you could be literate much quicker than that, and certainly have some basic familiarity with the language.

@frogmanthelibertarian1482 4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenFox0 11 years is so much it's like the whole life of a fornite player

@ZenFox0 4 жыл бұрын

Zeno Sama El Dios Sensual 😄🎮

@mathew2378 4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenFox0 learning Chinese characters are pointless.

@gayusschwulius8490 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who's been studying Mandarin for about a year now, this has been tremendously helpful. 谢谢你帮我！

@jingningmiao5780 4 жыл бұрын

if you want to learn native Chinese, you can come to “verbalplanet” and try Jingning Miao Chinese Class by skype. You can enjoy your first class for free.I hope you can insist learning Chinese and find its interests.

@ABCsOfChinese 11 жыл бұрын

:-) The character at 5:34 is a combination of 女 (woman), 口 (mouth) and 心 (heart). The combination of those three radicals is depicting the meaning "consideration" or "forgiveness". There's a nice little mnemonic in that... "heartfelt words from a woman's mouth" or something along those lines ;-)

@ronaldpoon451 3 жыл бұрын

you can explain it in this way. but in fact, some character is much more deep story than you thought.

@axis1198 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@yun-z 3 жыл бұрын

so reminiscent of karens

@MrFamilywat 10 жыл бұрын

This is a wonderful video that I never seen before. I can write and read Chinese. But this is so amazing to understand how these characters made of. I am showing my kids your video and they love it. Thanks.

@JL-gq6tu 5 жыл бұрын

As a native speaker, I absolutely love your breakdown of this intro to Chinese characters ❤️ thank you for producing these, my partner will find this very useful 👍🏻

@tepan 6 жыл бұрын

Best introduction to Chinese Characters I have seen so far (in about 12 years). Kudos!

@madisonstrubler7791 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is so much more understandable than lots of other videos, keep it up!

@icydragon68 8 жыл бұрын

What about biang biang noodles? Explain that character if you dare.

@theonetheycallbo 8 жыл бұрын

Its baddddd I work at a restaurant and we handwrite all of our menus in traditional (and I end up writing them because I have a degree in penmanship (I'm not entirely sure the English equivalent of this word sorry)) and this one is always just a struggle because its like what, 53 strokes? and then 3 characters? the total is like over 150 strokes probably

@theonetheycallbo 8 жыл бұрын

+Pvaultingfenderbass idk how much it actually is but what i do know is that its horribly long and a pain to handwrite

@icydragon68 8 жыл бұрын

+Bo Bramer somehow I managed to remember how to write it in the exact stroke order. The total is 56 strokes and it's the most useless character ever exists.

@theonetheycallbo 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty much I mean theres that one that has like the 4 龍 but like who reaLlllly uses it tho

@icydragon68 8 жыл бұрын

+Bo Bramer There is only one with three and this is the one you meant probably 龘

@drsingingeagle 4 жыл бұрын

I've always told my students that Chinese characters are based on four elements (1) abstract marks adopted from oracle bones and shells, (2) pictographs, (3) ideographs, and (4) sound.

@emirinobambino 5 жыл бұрын

I randomly stumbled across this video, and I thought I had no intention of learning Chinese, but your explanations made it easy for me to understand how the language is composed; I had no idea I was looking at pictures, and as you explained the etymology of the pictographs, I can now understand and associate the two, incredible!

@believeinpeace 2 жыл бұрын

This is an amazingly, excellent video. So well done. I couldn’t believe how well written and clear it was. What a talented artist. Just wonderful!

@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes Жыл бұрын

I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture. My native language is Chinese. I’m teaching Chinese language in jokes and pictures. It makes learning Chinese funny and much easier. Laughter can help us reduce tensions.

@darthmix 10 жыл бұрын

it is so crazy how fast this dude can draw

@urmomkv4408 6 жыл бұрын

Glozwell is this sarcasm?

@zi_pun 6 жыл бұрын

還有人認真回復的⋯⋯⋯⋯-_-#

@Delurpee 5 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh, nice one lol

@itzben499 5 жыл бұрын

@smiley wolf r/wooooosh

@TS-qq7vr 4 жыл бұрын

Why is the first reply, or at least 1 of the first 3, always someone thinking they're showing how smart they are by pointing out the bloody obvious to a sarcastic comment?

@emilyj9497 8 жыл бұрын

This video is a godsend! I'm about to watch it again! Thank you!!!!!

@FCWBD 4 жыл бұрын

So well done! Appreciate how much work you put into making this video.

@TheEverythingMan62 11 жыл бұрын

Good job on the characters, I'm currently learning Chinese at my school and the drawings you made were beautiful.

@hoserena5999 8 жыл бұрын

The drawing must take a lot of time! Thx!!!

@jms2a30 5 жыл бұрын

love that you share ideas on traditional chinese, not simplified one.

@zhongtingfeng5412 3 жыл бұрын

Yeh sometimes simplified chinese takes the meaning away for just easier to write.

@rohancgl 10 жыл бұрын

What a presentation buddy. Great. Thanks and good job, u r a perfect artist

@milena129 8 жыл бұрын

super complete and really accurate ! you really helped me with a college presentation ! thanks :)

@leigh4402 4 жыл бұрын

7:35 Its hell, when typing my name on a computer sometimes, my chinese name is an old variant of a particular word and unicode doesn't have that character. Its created a lifelong problem with getting my name accepted in many electronic systems lol. Its like those parents who name their kid Abcde with accents.

@Munggoon 5 жыл бұрын

I love the sharpness of Chinese characters... They are just awesome!

@pradeebaat 5 жыл бұрын

Your drawing are just awesome, I couldn’t take my eyes off..

@fernandachristensengama5245 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Great explanation - you touched some concepts of semiotics in a simpler way.

@adriancline-bailey3301 10 жыл бұрын

Awesomely brilliant and thank you mate, great effort.

@zglg123 11 жыл бұрын

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but this is without a doubt the most fascinating video I've ever seen in my life. All I kept saying was, "WHOA! THAT ACTUALLY MAKES A LOT OF SENSE!" Within 1:30 I hit subscribe. Thanks for making my virtual life

@nlocniLmaharbA 2 жыл бұрын

Here we are after 9 years finding this hidden gem. Disappointingly, not much was offered in the channel.

@zhou6642 4 жыл бұрын

What an amazing video. Very well made. 1. Entertaining | fun to watch 2. Well-structured 3. Easy to understand Thanks for making this video. I am working on a teaching plan of teaching 3&4 graders Chinese Calligraphy. This video really helped me understand how Chinese Characters work, even though I am Chinese. Thank you !

@kfgfkhg 4 жыл бұрын

who drew a six legged spider and was just like "yep, that's a tree"

@dot1475 3 жыл бұрын

I can't unsee it now..

@seanfarley4288 9 жыл бұрын

Hello. Having taken many years worth of Chinese, I've found memorizing the characters to be quite Sisyphean. I find this methodology cogent and wonderful. For example, now I finally understand certain passages of the Three Kingdoms that deal with linguistic riddles. My only request is thus: Please make more videos!

@lenmarcroxas1273 5 жыл бұрын

i couldn't smile even more, everything in the video is indeed effective, motivating, and inspiring.

@amandachang5083 6 жыл бұрын

This is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys are awesome!!! As a Chinese teacher, I am really thankful for the facts you elaborate.

@katongche 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your amazing video, which introduces some basic cultures of Chinese and concepts of written Chinese to other peoples. And interestingly, as a Chinese, i do not know some of the examples given by you, haha, thanks for giving me a lesson.

@ziuki 4 жыл бұрын

8:28 one ONLY needs to recognise 3500 simplified characters, or 4800 traditional characters. PHEW! *cough* we use 28

@macdonald715 4 жыл бұрын

Ziuki I use 32 letters

@aphroditesaphrodisiac3272 4 жыл бұрын

It's not 3500 alphabets, it's 3500 words( some of which are also alphabets). i don’t know how many “alphabets” we have, but it's obviously not that many

@emiljayatileke416 4 жыл бұрын

English and other languages use 26 to 32 LETTERS. But they have just as many (if not more) words as Chinese. And you have already memorized 1000s of them......for example, you already memorized all words in my response. When you read this, you don't need to spell out each word because you've already memorized what it looks like.

@lav3399 4 жыл бұрын

my language uses 52

@ah2522 4 жыл бұрын

@@emiljayatileke416 chinese characters are not words.

@stevechu5330 4 жыл бұрын

I am a Taiwanese and I speak Chinese Mandarin. This is the first time that I know where those characters came from. And your Chinese characters are so beautiful.

@kennySg101 5 жыл бұрын

Great video ! For english speaking readers, this video serves as a good introduction for chinese character or hanzi. Well done!!

@yifanzheng1999 7 жыл бұрын

As a Chinese, when people ask me how to learn Chinese, what I want to tell them is that hearing your parents and people people around u speaking Chinese everyday and having a hard time in primary school trying to memorize all the Pingyin and letters will help

@hellothing 7 жыл бұрын

Evan Blazkovic thats for every language tbh

@Pedrosa2541 6 жыл бұрын

You could say something in line of "Git Gud", except that you're not playing Dark Souls but instead trying to get a job done but have to deal with a stupid writing system.

@teohpinhwa7719 6 жыл бұрын

You simply realise how boring English or any alphabetical language is when you know how to write Chinese. Every single words has their own meaning/stories and different pronouncation

@Pedrosa2541 6 жыл бұрын

Teoh Pin Hwa - A language is like a tool, I employ it so I can do a pratical task, like sending an e-mail to my client or employeer. I don't want it to be "fun" and I really don't care what are the etimology of the word "纠正", I want to write a message in a way that my reciever understands and I want to do it with the most quick and efficient manner possible. It don't need to be overlycomplex than it need to be, I don't have time for linguistic bs, I have a deadline to fulfill. What you cal "boringness", I call "efficiency".

@damiester1 5 жыл бұрын

lol Linguistics is how you obtained that "efficiency". The system changes all the time and without proper knowledge of etymology, your language would eventually be defunct. It's a little easier now cause more people are literate, but you still need linguists to constantly organise words and their meanings for the general populace. Just because you're ignorant of the importance of linguistics doesn't mean you're any more practical than the rest of us. The Chinese writing system has its own perks with words having multiple associative derivatives. The alphabets having no visual connection to the object they're describing has more than enough weaknesses that you simply do not care to admit lol.

@WhyV 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing hard work of making the video :o

@fairlymoon448 5 жыл бұрын

wow, love the art and these explanations! seal script as well eek. its nice to see the picture with the character

@sandwichc 10 жыл бұрын

I use traditional Chinese in my daily life. However, I still learned *A LOT* from your video. You really blow my mind!