Chinese Characters
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Chinese characters explained.

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Learn about the origin of some Chinese characters which were derived from pictures of what the characters represent.

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Learn about the origin of some Chinese characters which were derived from pictures of what the characters represent.

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Learn not only the meaning behind some Chinese characters, but also how they were originally derived from pictures. These characters are of the agricultural variety.

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Spring, summer, autumn, winter- learn the story behind these seasonal characters.

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Learn the stories behind some characters of the animal variety.

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Have you ever wondered why a Chinese character is written the way it is written? The Chinese characters are logograms, unlike the English language that utilize Latin characters. The Chinese characters could be represented by pictograms, depicting one or an aggregate of pictures or ideograms depicting an idea/icon symbolically. Join us to learn the roots of some of the Chinese characters. In this episode, you will discover the formation of "horn," "flower," and "grass," to name a few.

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Have you ever wondered why a Chinese character is written the way it is written? The Chinese characters are logograms, unlike the English language that utilize Latin characters. The Chinese characters could be represented by pictograms depicting one or an aggregate of pictures or ideograms depicting an idea/icon symbolically. Join us to learn the roots of some of the Chinese characters. In this episode, you will discover the formation of the "rind" of a fruit, "fur," "melon" and "fruit."

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Have you ever wondered why a Chinese character is written the way it is written? The Chinese characters are logograms, unlike the English language that utilizes Latin characters. The characters could be represented by pictograms depicting one or an aggregate of pictures or ideograms depicting an idea or a borrowed word. Join us to learn the roots of some of the Chinese characters. In this episode, you will discover the formation of "pine," "peach," "willow" and "bamboo."

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Learn a simple, fun way to say the four directions in Chinese as well as how to remember how to write them.

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Learn about the characters used to talk about time by watching this fun and thorough explanation of how to write them and how they came about.

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Learn in the fastest and easiest way possible how to effectively remember some characters that express movement.

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This cute introductory video helps Chinese learners learn the characters for "fu," (father) "mu," (mother) "ma," (mommy) and "ba" (daddy).

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Wind, Cloud, Fire and Water can't seem to find their way home!

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Let's put Wind, Cloud, Fire and Water back where they belong!

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Let's review the vocabulary again for wind, cloud, water and fire.

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The wisdom of Chinese ancient hieroglyphics can be traced back to thousands of years ago. They are so clever and yet, comprised of such spontaneous connections that even a child can guess them.

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A child learns from his dad the wisdom of Chinese characters.

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While a father is teaching his child Chinese characters, they are introduced in all their wisdom and splendor.

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As the story comes to a conclusion, we learn more and more concepts that are brilliantly captured in the essence of Chinese characters.

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Numbers

Watch and learn the vocabulary and grammar of the numbers one through ten in Chinese.

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Color

Learn some vocabulary of the colors and how they are used to describe things.

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Fruit

Watch and learn how to say the names for different types of fruit in Chinese.

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Body Parts

Learn some very useful vocabulary for the body parts.

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Watch and learn how to address people in a Chinese family.

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Vegetables

Watch and learn how to say the names of vegetables in Chinese.

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Verbs Part 1

Watch and learn how to use verbs properly in Chinese.

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Verbs Part 2

Watch and learn some Chinese verbs.

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Emotion

Watch and learn some useful phrases to describe your emotions.

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Stationery

Learn some useful words to describe stationery such as ruler, pencil, eraser, tape, etc.

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Shapes Part 1

Learn the Chinese terms for shapes in this video.

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Shapes Part 2

This video continues with the different shapes.

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Clothing Part 1

Now let's learn about some of the things that you will wear in the winter.

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Clothing Part 2

This video continues with terms for clothing.

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It's time to learn about different occupations.

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Let's continue with the different occupations.

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When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.

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This video continues with transportation terminology.

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Let's learn the names of home appliances.

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Let's learn some more home appliance terms.

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Animals Part 1

The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.

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Animals Part 2

As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.

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Animals Part 3

If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.

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Animals Part 4

In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.

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Plants Part 1

This video talks about the Chinese words for plants.

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Plants Part 2

If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.

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This video teaches you how to say the names of some musical instruments.

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This video teaches you how to say the names of some sports and hobbies.

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