Chinese writings are complex constructions made up of over three thousand basic signs. This means that Chinese writing can be very difficult for a westerner, for example, to learn. The hardest part is that the Chinese characters are usually composed of a series of strokes. Chinese students learn to do these series of strokes by repeating them endlessly until they know how to write a character. As a method of learning this may be tedious, but it remains one of the best ways to learn Chinese writings or, as it is also called, Chinese calligraphy.

One things you need to do when practicing Chinese calligraphy is to execute the strokes that make up the character in the correct sequence. When it is done repetitively, it becomes a useful memory aid, enabling you to remember how the character is written more easily.  Another very useful tip in studying Chinese writings and how to execute them is to start with the simplest words. This may be very self obvious, but you’ll find, as you learn more and more words, that you are less and less intimidated by Chinese writings, whereas if you start with a difficult character, your Chinese practice will probably end with you abandoning it entirely as being too difficult.

The good news for those learning Chinese is that the Chinese government has made efforts to simplify Chinese writings by simplifying many of the characters so that they require much fewer strokes to write. In any case, modern Chinese is essentially much simpler to learn than the Chinese of a few hundred years ago. The largest Chinese dictionaries list over sixty thousand characters, yet most of these are really largely obsolete today. To write modern Chinese effectively, you really need to know about three thousand characters. These three thousand characters can form something like thirty thousand words, which is more than adequate for all the common usage you will come upon in the course of expressing yourself in modern China.

It will also enable you to read business and other documents, menus, signs and just about everything else that you require. The best part is that once you have this basis in the Chinese language, subsequent learning of additional characters becomes relatively easy. Like more things in life, Chinese becomes much easier the more you learn of it. If you are interested in Chinese writings, I would really suggest you learn simplified Chinese of mainland China rather than more archaic language of Taiwan, because generally speaking, once you learn simplified Chinese, you can easily pick up on more archaic Chinese, but it does not work the other way around.

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