Originally posted by dumbdumb!:
chinese is hard
No lah. Chinese is just must read, practise, speak and use it more often then you will find it easy. There is no need to memorise the Chinese characters, once you read a lot of Chinese books and newspaper, their image will be imprinted into your brain. No need to make special effort to study the ci yu shou ce, if you do that, you can find that in two weeks, you can't even read finish one (or maybe it is only me?)
I see my friends all doing so and I followed until the last 3 days I still have finish the ci yu shou ce that I have been reading for the past 2 weeks. I read until pek chek then my mother ask me to practise and not study because she say it is impossible to read finish all one. When you practise, you know what words you don't know and at the same time, when you fill in the words, you know how to use it to form a sentence, so it makes learning easier.