Characters

I have installed the Chinese keyboard so I am able to start learning how to type these characters. Which is easier than I imagined. All you do is type the word using "Pinyin" then selected the correct character.

As I have previously mentioned Chinese has three ways of writing. Pinyin, Traditional Chinese characters and Simplified Chinese characters. What I did not mention is that you need to learn about 3,000 of these characters to be at a decent level and about 5,000 to be very fluent in a vast amount of subjects. There is actually about 50,000 characters, but most are not used - thankfully.

This has nothing to do with speaking/listening. People can easily speak and listen to a language without being able to read/write it. However, I don't want to be illiterate. So now I need to narrow 5,000 characters down to small groups. Divide and conquer. My first post I mentioned learning in "Areas of Interest", shopping, order food etc. However, Rxsetta Stxne does not have the ability to do that for me. The whole "grouping" of words is something I need to do on my own, but since I am using that program and have no control over what it tells me to learn, I will base my character progression off of what it teaches.

I am in the process of creating a chart that lists the characters I have run into so far - which is 47. This does not mean I know 47 words. Sometimes, most times  characters are combined to create a single word, though each character usually has a meaning behind it.

As an example: 果汁 means "Juice", but it literally means "Fruit Juice".

The character 果 means "Fruit" and 汁 means "Juice". So with that, I know 2 words, but when combined I then know only 1 word. I have a feeling though, it is going to come down to how many characters I know, not how many "words". Because it seems they are "Force Multipliers". You can continue to combine them in different ways and come up with new meanings.