Chinese Characters
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Chinese characters explained.

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Shapes Part 2

This video continues with the different shapes.

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Clothing Part 1

Now let's learn about some of the things that you will wear in the winter.

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Clothing Part 2

This video continues with terms for clothing.

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It's time to learn about different occupations.

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Let's continue with the different occupations.

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When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.

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This video continues with transportation terminology.

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Let's learn the names of home appliances.

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Let's learn some more home appliance terms.

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Animals Part 1

The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.

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Animals Part 2

As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.

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Animals Part 3

If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.

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Animals Part 4

In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.

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Plants Part 1

This video talks about the Chinese words for plants.

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Plants Part 2

If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.

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This video teaches you how to say the names of some musical instruments.

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This video teaches you how to say the names of some sports and hobbies.

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What does typography mean to you? Why is it important?

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Designing a new font is extremely difficult, especially since there are thousands of characters in the Chinese language.

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Innovation of a writing system occurs by creating a better version of what already exists, which is always related to one's national heritage.

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