Assignment Articles

  1. Assignment 6: First Review

    Tweet Objectives: Re-familiarize ourselves with the covered material and harvest the our previous work. Instructions: Review Lesson One and the Word Roots Review Lesson Two and the Sound Modules Study Log:   I began Assignment 6 on April 3, 2008 and I completed Assignment 6 in only three days on April 5, 2008.   Book […]

  2. Assignment 5: Sound Modules – Form, Meaning and Logic Inference

    Tweet Objectives: Introduction to how Sound Modules or sound tags work (four-tones (4-T), span and spin) Learn how to write the form and memorize the meaning of 300 Sound Modules Learn the logic inference behind 300 Sound Modules Instructions: Read through Lesson Two (Chinese Etymology).After reading through the lesson text we understand why Sound Modules […]

  3. Assignment 4: Generation 1 (G1) Word Dissection

    Tweet Objectives: Another look at radicals and to understand Chinese word topology Be able to anatomically dissect Chinese words and write their form by hand Instructions: Read through Chinese Word Topology (additional material beyond the textbook). Now that we understand how Chinese words are constructed it is time to start putting our knowledge into practice!Listed […]

  4. Assignment 2: Preface and Introduction

    Tweet Objectives: Discover the differences between the traditional method of learning Chinese and our new improved method using Chinese word roots Understand the Chinese language architecture and introduction to its “building blocks”: Word roots (RTA and RTB) Radicals Vertical growth (Generation 0 (G0) or word roots, Generation 1 (G1) or “node” words, Generation 2 (G2) […]

  5. Assignment 1: Course Overview

    Tweet Objectives: Course introduction Introduction to the Chinese word root concept Instructions:   Read through the Course Overview (review www.chinese-word-roots.org ).   This is a summary and lead-in to the course, the information provided will help us understand what we will be looking at in the following assignments and lessons.   Study Log:   I […]