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Write Chinese Characters today! Learn how to write Chinese characters containing "shui" (water) in this free video series in foreign language instruction.
There are 16 videos in this series:
Learn how to write "shui" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "govern" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "low lying" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "clean" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "Erhai Lake" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "flood" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "spill" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "irrigate" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "unclear" or "dirty water" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "measure" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "wash" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "to live" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "send" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "browse" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "relief" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
Learn how to write "Chanhe River" in Chinese characters in this free video on Chinese words containing the "Shui" (water) character.
The Chinese language has produced many poets studied all over the world, including Du Fu, Bai Juyi, and Li Po. Thousand of poems from these three authors remain, some translated by famous writers such as Ezra Pound and others featured in productions at Disney’s Epcot Center. Chinese is written in characters, and much debate has arisen concerning how exactly these figures became associated with the words or ideas they represent. Some scholars believe much of the Chinese system is made up of ideograms and pictograms, symbols that look like the things they represent. Other scholars consider Chinese more abstract, claiming that the characters represent words or sounds without trying to look like anything at all, like letters in English.
In this free video series, graduate student and teaching assistant Esther-Xiaohua Liu will show you how to write Chinese characters by using the radical for "water." If any Chinese character contains the "Three-Dot-Water" radical, it will have some association to shui or "water." Learn to speak and write the characters for govern, low lying, flood, spill, irrigate, dirty, measure, browse, and many more! Esther-Xiaohu will give you what you need to recognize these water words in print!
Esther-Xiaohua Liu Esther-Xiaohua Liu is a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at Shaanxi Normal University, Chang'an University and Xi'an Conservatory College in China. In the United States, Liu has taught Chinese to students at Northwestern University's Xiling Chinese school and the Chinese American League of Chicago. She has also published many poems written in Chinese and in English.dkdk
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