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Stroke Order (笔顺) Posted by on Oct 16, 2011

Now that we’ve covered Radicals (部首) in our last post, it’s time to move on to the basics of stroke order, so we can complete our characters and improve our writing. Stroke order is an integral component to reading, writing and recognizing characters and is a valuable way to deepen your understand of Chinese character…

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Radicals (部首) Posted by on Oct 14, 2011

As an English native speaker learning written Chinese, you are three steps removed from the language. You may know how to say a word, and even know the proper tones and meaning, but what about writing it? In English a 26 letter alphabet is really all you need to deduce most pronunciations and spelling, but…

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