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October 09, 2012
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October 09, 2012
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  1. “how many more characters will I have to learn before

    I can read something really useful?”
  2. That is the menu on the wall of a little

    restaurant near where I used to live on Dongsi Sitiao, in Beijing. The food is indescribably delicious.
  3. You have already learned about a tenth of the characters

    you need. You should be reading the whole thing by the end of the week...
  4. Many characters have changed their shape and their meaning over

    the last 2000 years. So sometimes the characters now look pretty different to what they represent.
  5. But with a bit of imagination you can often nd

    your way back to the original pictures and meanings
  6. In the rst level, you learned a few of the

    most commonly used characters using some pretty neat animations. Now you are going to learn a few more!
  7. Some of the pictures are a perfect t... some are

    a bit more elaborate. But that just makes them more interesting, and so more memorable!