New Workbook: Chinese Characters for the Tai Chi-friends

[Martin2]

Dear Tai Chi-friends,

this workbook comes in response to my students lively interest in Chinese characters and will familiarise you with the way they work by practical example and exercises. The characters used for the exercises are often taken from Tai Chi-technical terms.

Having works through this book you will be able to recognise the structure of Chinese characters independently and to look up characters new to you in a Chinese dictionary.

http://www.amazon.com/Workbook-Characte ... 50854820X/

Content:

- Strokes in Chinese Characters
- Structure of Chinese Characters
- Radicals
- Using a Chinese Dictionary

For those of you who want to start to learn Chinese or just play around with the beautiful characters, this might be interesting.

All the best

Martin

[Michael]

But you didn't answer the Grand Ultimate Question for a book on Tai Ji Quan Zhong Wens.

[Martin2]

Hey Michael,

sounds like a great idea - let's see.

All the best

Martin

[Michael]

The question is.....

Are traditional or simplified characters in your book?

[Martin2]

Hey Michael,

sorry, simplified characters - good start for the beginner.

Hug

Martin

[D_Glenn]

There's supposedly a list of the most difficult characters to write and this: 鼉 tuo is one of them.

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[Martin2]

Yup, lovely.

[edededed]

I want to learn the "worm script" - but I am one of the 3 or so people in the world that wants to, so I can't find a book...

Incidentally, I learned traditional characters first, THEN simplified characters - it may take a bit more work at the beginning, but it's easier to transition to simplified later as opposed to traditional later, I think!

[Martin2]

I have uploaded an example of an exercise on my blog - enjoy:

http://taichi-philosophy.blogspot.de/20 ... s-for.html


Martin