Of course, you can learn radicals first, but pictographs are an excellent ‘unscary’ introduction to Chinese characters that served me well! LEARN RADICALSĪ significant step of learning to read Chinese characters is to understand radicals. The reason why I recommend learning pictographs first is that many of them are also radicals, which you also need to know. You can get started learning pictographs in ‘ Learn to Read with these 20 Chinese Pictographs’. Well, that’s the reaction I had anyway, and the realization that Chinese characters had a meaning that I could actually understand was one of the reasons why I stuck with learning to read Chinese. I had no intention of learning to read Chinese characters because back then, written Chinese looked like this:
Let me take you back to 2011 when I first arrived in China. After all, they are ‘simplified.’ However, don’t forget to take a look at traditional characters, especially later down the line. The chances are that you’ll automatically choose to learn simplified characters since this is the written language used in mainland China. There are plenty of avenues to go down before being able to read, and below are some of the ‘stages’ you might want to visit while learning to read Chinese characters.īefore starting to read, you need to decide whether you’ll learn to read simplified or traditional Chinese characters. Of course, no one’s suggesting it’s an ‘easy’ journey. Once I got over the idea that learning to read Chinese was impossible, I realized how much easier my life had become in China, and how liberating it was to read even just a handful of Chinese characters. I was one of those ‘students’ if I can even call myself that, who started to learn Chinese out of necessity. Learning to read Chinese characters is something that many students of Chinese, who often just begin learning to speak, are reluctant to show interest in. I t will only take 11 minutes to read this post!
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