⚠️ STOP learning Chinese characters like this… #chinese #language

[chinesewithlia]

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[rainpeanut]

me personally, it helps me remember them so they don't look like amorphous masses when i encounter them again later, i'm usually gonna forget how to write them but it personally helps me recognize them

[himeshira]

She's not saying to not learn the Chinese characters at all. she's telling you to not put your focus too much to memorize how to write them one by one but instead memorize it by it's particle and any other element that can help.

[heikestoll]

I see your point, but I do some writing every day just because I enjoy it and it helps me differentiate characters that look really similar.
I don’t copy characters over and over, but rather copy a favorite passage from a book, a Weibo post that I find interesting, or pick a few sentences from a grammar lesson.
But I definitely do more reading than writing.

[rc....]

They forget because they use the phone more and more. After not needing to use pen to write, my spelling deteriorated.

[xiaogeju]

For me, writing was worth it. There is something meditative about writing the Chinese characters and after about 10 years you even get a feeling for their appearance and meaning.

[Sonchikas]

I am learning chinese at university to be a translator, for me it's very important to learn how to write them. At the very least my prof constantly grades us at how we write hanzi.

[josiebobi]

i definitely have a case of character amnesia😂 i can still read and speak but i haven’t written in a long time and find it difficult to recall the characters😅 (i learnt chinese as a kid)

[rafikbouaouni]

I advise people to write, writing is the best way to learn.

[garden]

Muscle memory helps. Try everything. Just do what ever works for you. It's good to write it, because it us also a form of therapy.

[samanthagrace]

I think it depends on what your goal is. For me practicing writing them is both calming and relaxing, and it helps me to memorize reading them and remember the words. However it depends on your goal. If your focus is purely to speak conversationally then I’d not worry about it at all for example but if you were going to move to china or maybe you need it for work or academics then writing would be important. Even for reading, it wouldn’t be as heavily focused on but I feel it does help recalling the characters. I think it’s at least beneficial to learn stroke order though regardless,

[galanoftaa]

I lived in China for over 4 years. I got to the point where I could read newspapers and magazines in Chinese. She's absolutely right. Reading and chatting/texting Chinese characters is what got me there. Even my Chinese teachers would forget how to write characters. There's too damn many.

[revinaque]

This is a thing! I know someone whose elderly parents read the newspaper in Chinese every day, but they've completely forgotten how to write

[piousmuffin]

I find that writing down Japanese kanji at least once or twice (or until I feel like I got it mostly right) when I learn them helps tremendously with memorization, particularly with learning the radicals themselves.

The process of writing down all the radicals in a kanji really helps with distinguishing the specific kanji from similar ones. For example, I used to struggle with telling apart 問 and 間, which I see all the time when reading, but never sat down and properly learned. After sitting down yesterday and writing down both a couple times, I don't think I'll ever mistake them again.

Once I've learned and internalized all the radicals, I'll probably rely less on writing things down since it should get easier to memorize stuff without writing it down, but for now I'll keep doing it.

[bobo]

For me it helps me remember the character even better. There's a lot of Chinese characters that look almost the same and it confuses me sometimes. Writing characters actually helps me remember them better!

[caleb]

I'm Chinese. sometimes i can write the character by muscle memory( writing so quickly), but didn't no how exactly the character is written

[chen]

I am a computer programmer. Also I can still read traditional Chinese without problem, I have developed very bad character amnesia (even hard to write my name sometimes 😅). And I also forget lots of English words, thanks to auto-completion. Computers are clearly making us dull 😅

[migookpiglet]

This makes me feel less pressured 😅😂❤ 很好。

[SebastianSeanCrow]

Learning them within the context of words also helps! I learn by writing just cuz it helps me remember tbh but not everyone is the same
If you’re gonna go the writing route, you need a notebook (preferably grid style) where you write the character, readings, meanings, stroke order, and example words
The example words are incredibly important cuz you need to like… know how to use it
Any method you use to memorize def needs you actually using them to get it set in

[LouiseMitchelle]

How to tell me your alphabet is too complex without telling me your alphabet is too complex 😮.