Sunday, October 20, 2013

Lesson 4 - Chinese Characters about Nature


This time, we are going to put down our pens to learn some new Chinese characters. They are: water, cloud, flower, tree, wind, rain and moon.

Throughout the last 2 weeks of exercise with my son, I realized that he had the hard time to memorize these few Chinese symbols even the teacher had very good illustrations.

This is my best guess....If you look closely of the above Chinese characters, each one of them just looks like a symbol through which a child can hardly relate it to anything at all.  I know.....you can argue that statement when it comes to English, too.

But, anyway, I thought I could use some pictographs to show the evolution of the Chinese words.  Maybe, somehow, he can relate to it.

In this lesson, there are 3 Chinese characters that I put the traditional Chinese word next to it.  Please take this advantage to teach your kids the 2 different styles Chinese writings.

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