Can you read and write thousands of Chinese characters yet?

After reading you will:

• Understand how to read Chinese characters that you have never seen before.
• Know how to combine simple characters in order to easily make very complex characters.
• See how to properly form your characters just like Chinese people do so that they’re not sloppy or warped.
• Learn how to read numbers from 0 to 1,000,000, as well as the special “financial” numerals used to prevent forgery.
• Find out how to read Chinese characters on a menu, as well as how to spot the most important characters and understand what they really mean.
  
• Comprehend how to read a business card in Chinese, including name, position, contact information, and respectful forms of address.

“Chinese characters are the most challenging aspect for Chinese foreign language learners. This eBook utilizes an effective method and a fun way to master the characters and has been applied by many Chinese learners to date. I strongly recommend it to anybody who wants to learn how to read and write Chinese effectively.”

Gerrie Ying, Instructor of Chinese language and culture studies (Vancouver, Canada)

Although 2500-3000 is the “recommended” amount, you might be surprised to know that you can actually get by with far less than this. In fact, if you know just 200 characters, you’ll be able to recognize about 50% of all characters you come across.

If you increase that number to 1000, you’ll already be able to get to 90%. And that’s a pretty big jump, right?

Furthermore, knowledge of just 2500 characters lands you all the way to 98%.

Consider that the average educated Chinese person knows about 5000-8000 characters, and I think you can start to see how knowing even just 1/5 of this amount allows you to recognize over 90% of the Chinese characters used in China on a daily basis.

You don’t need to be any type of language genius to get along just fine in Chinese!

Most Chinese characters also share certain components among themselves (kind of like how different English words are made up of the same alphabetical letters), so once you know just a handful of characters, you can use these to construct even more!

When it comes down to it, you have the potential to read a lot quickly. While increasing the number you can recognize will obviously help you to understand more of what you will see, all you need is just a couple hundred to get yourself started.

This eBook presents you with your first 1150 characters.

And with the better understanding you’ll get from this book about how Chinese characters are formed, you’ll learn how to start reading every character for yourself, even far beyond the initial 1150 presented here!

This eBook “teaches a man to fish”; in this case, to actually provide you with a deep understanding of how and why Chinese characters are written like they are (rather than just throwing some random characters at you and making you memorize them blindly!)

With just 1000 characters, you’ll be able to recognize about 90% of the characters you see on a daily basis.

In order to help you see why Chinese characters are written like they are today, this eBook goes into depth about how they have changed over time and this will help to show you how to better understand their current forms.

For example, as you can see displayed here, these four Chinese characters look quite different.

However, upon further inspection, you might come to realize that they’re actually just different forms of the same character!

Look at the character on the left-hand side. You don’t need a good imagination to guess that it’s just a drawing of a horse. And in actual fact, this is how the character for horse was written about 3500 years ago.

All characters originally used to quite clearly represent the objects that people saw in everyday life, kind of like the simple drawings that you or I might sketch on a napkin or a piece of paper.

However, they also changed over time, and horse is written today like the character on the far right-hand side (but you can still see the four legs at the bottom, and the long tail at the back!)

Therefore, this eBook explains many of these gradual shifts so that you will be able to better understand the modern forms. You’ll see that Chinese characters do indeed have a predetermined design and that you too can easily learn to understand them.

The part of a Chinese character that contains the most meaning is called the radical.

Radicals are very important to learn because they “give a hint” to the meaning of the character!

For example, if we take the character for horse (馬) that we just learned above, we can also know that almost any other character with a 馬 as part of its form automatically has something to do with the characteristic of a horse!

Of course, a 馬 by itself still means horse. But can you see how these other characters all derive their meaning from having the horse radical combined with it?

To put more it simply, the potential meaning of a Chinese character can actually be hinted at simply by looking at and understanding these simple radicals!

Can you see from the above five examples how each character has something to do with a horse (steed, donkey), an action of a horse (to gallop), or something that can be done with a horse (to ride, to drive)?

And although there may be thousands of individual characters that you can learn, there are just a small handful of radicals that help to make up just about every Chinese character out there.

Let me help you master these radicals, and you will be well on your way to reading any Chinese character you see!

“Simply amazing. chinEASE offers a fresh and easily understandable approach to learning this intimidating language! This book comes highly recommended to anyone who has very little experience with this writing system and who is looking for a firm foundation and a fun experience.”

Isaiah Smith, Student (Baltimore, USA)

In Chapter 1, you start by being eased into a basic understanding of some of the most widely used characters and how they all actually just look like pictures that you or I might doodle on a napkin.

In Chapter 3, we start to break characters down and see exactly how they have transformed from “doodles” to the forms they have today.

In Chapter 7, you’ll learn why Chinese characters have specific spacing properties to them, and how they are actually more straightforward than a block of English text.

You’ll also see how to properly write characters with their correct stroke orders (something many students really struggle with!), so this section will prove to be indispensable.

Chapter 9 details the different types of Chinese punctuation. You’ll see several differences from English, but through the detailed usage of example after example, you’ll thoroughly understand these new parts of writing in a flash!

Chapter 10 is your mega goldmine. I’m sure you know how varied a Chinese menu can actually be. With this in-depth chapter, you will come away understanding not only the most important characters for ordering your favorite dishes, but also how to understand those slightly more exotic foods not found here at home.

Duck feet? Beef tongue? Pork ear? Knowing how to recognize the characters for these foods is especially important if you’re not interested in eating them. This way you’ll know how to avoid them completely!

Chapter 11 will definitely help you when it comes to conducting business. Understanding what is written on a client’s business card is essential if you want to make an impact.

With this chapter, you will discover how to successfully locate a person’s name on a Chinese business card, their position, and their address, as well as a whole host of the most common Chinese surnames and positions within a company.

Additionally, this book also includes several detailed appendices that contain information about pinyin, or the method of writing Chinese characters with the English alphabet, as well as a chart that includes information on every possible sound combination in the Mandarin Chinese language (hint: the number is far less than in English!).

Moreover, the appendices also include information on how to set up your computer so as to type in Chinese, as well as exercise sheets on which to practice your Chinese writing by hand.

“I found that chinEASE taught me techniques for finding clues as to what certain characters mean and how they’re pronounced even if I just encounter them for the first time. It changed my mentality to characters from something that needed to be memorized to something that has a story waiting to be understood. This eBook definitely brings you to the right path – a path where characters are definitely chinEase!”

Allan Ngo, Entrepreneur (Manila, Philippines)

“I have never seen another book like this anywhere. I’ve studied Chinese for over 10 years and I wish I had something this thorough and accessible to get me started. This book is packed with interesting and useful tidbits and is a fantastic value.”

Tom Hazelton, Software Engineer (San Francisco, USA)

Package options:

THE eBOOK (chinEASE)

• 146-page PDF eBook. Everything you need to know to get you reading and writing Chinese characters.
• 33 extra resources. A full list of additional resources to use in order to take your Chinese even further.

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THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

• 146-page PDF eBook. Everything you need to know to get you reading and writing Chinese characters.
• 33 extra resources. A full list of additional resources to use in order to take your Chinese even further.
• 2nd PDF eBook: “Your First 50 Chinese Phrases”. Find phrases that every beginner in this language should know, as well as how they’re written with Chinese characters, and what they mean in English.
• Special Report: “The Advantages of Knowing How to Read Foreign Languages”. Find out why learning foreign scripts has specifically helped me to better navigate new countries while traveling. This report focuses on why being even vaguely familiar with a foreign script like Chinese (or any other language’s writing system) can vastly help you to become more comfortable with your surroundings in a foreign country, even if you’re just visiting it for a short time.
• 3rd PDF eBook: “Read Korean in 10 Minutes”. Use the knowledge you gain from my special report and put it to use. Learn how to read the script of another Asian language in just under 10 minutes.
• BONUS – Chart of the 88 Most-Commonly Used Radicals. Use this chart to understand the most common radicals and how they work. These are the building blocks of Chinese characters.
• BONUS – Pinyin Pronunciation Chart. Refer to this handy chart to review all possible sound combinations in Mandarin Chinese. Hint — it’s far fewer than in English!

 

Buy it all now for only $12.99.

“I always thought learning Chinese was an impossible task that just didn’t make any sense. But after reading this eBook, it made me realize that it’s very possible for beginners to excel when learning Chinese characters, even if you have no prior knowledge. I’ve gone from knowing nothing to being able to read another language and THIS IS AWESOME! I would absolutely recommend this eBook to anyone who wants to get a good handle on written Chinese.”

Braden James, Online Marketer (Victoria, Canada)

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy reading chinEASE and gaining a deeper understanding of how to read and write one of the most widely used languages on the planet today!

Happy learning!

Regards,

Aaron Posehn （方希哲）
Author, chinEASE