Memorizing Thoasands of Characters
The Memorization of Chinese Vocabulary Within the Chinese language there is over 50,000 different characters, each with its own meaning. To read a newspaper, a person must know between 2,000 - 3,000 characters. An educated Chinese speaker will know a total of 8,000 or more characters. This is one of the most intimating parts of the Chinese language. This is yet another very challenging part of Chinese, and is a reason why most aren't interested or motivated to learn the language. Like most things in life, this requires hard work, dedication, and motivation. To better understand what a character is, we must first discuss the origins of these symbols. The origins of Chinese writing, date back to before 1200 BC. Due to this long period of existence, Chinese characters have had plenty time to develop; hence the creation of more than 50,000 characters. Characters begun as pictures of the object or su...
