Hi,

I've just begun to learn Chinese (about four months), and I'm searching the best way to learn.

You know everyone is different, and I'm testing different way to learn 汉字。

I'd like to share a bit of my experience, hoping other people share their.

First option, brute force, writing and saying aloud, 20 times or more.

Pro: easy to do;

Con: time consuming, boring, no so much effective (in my case).

Second option, story telling, try to invent story about, without regarding the real story/meaning of the character.

Pro: it seems a little bit effective for memory, fun

con: artificial, not related to real language, time consuming (to invent the story)

Third option: analyze character, in the real language term.

Pro: effective for memory, not artificial

Con: very time consuming, sometimes difficult to find information.

At the moment I've decided to do this way:

- write at least 20 times every new character 

- when I feel the character is not going to fix in my memory, I try to go a little deep about it (not with fake story), try to have some logical understanding of it

- use colours for tones

- make a paper flash card for every new character (to revise later)

This is my experience, hoping to hear soon from you!

Alessandro

刘天武