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Read Chinese - When You Read Chinese Characters, Discover How To Let Pinyin Help You, Not Distract You From Characters! Here The Perfect Compromise!

In the online daily course "1,000 Chinese Characters", in all dialogues what you normally see are Chinese characters, so you can concentrate on characters, not being distract by pinyin.

But what if you don't know a character?

Well, you just need to roll the mouse pointer over the character to read its pinyin!

Get you free lessons as offered in the box on the right of this page and see by yourself what I mean.

Furthemore, the course guides you to learn the 6, 152 and 1,000 most frequently written and spoken characters.

For example, consider the following Chinese text (the characters belonging to the list of 1,000 most commonly used Chinese characters are highlighted in yellow - for the complete list click here):

帮助子女结交益友。“跟智慧人同行，就有智慧；同愚昧人来往，难免吃亏。”（箴言13：20）一名基督徒父亲把四个孩子养育成人。他说：“留意孩子们所选择的朋友很重要，一个损友就能使你前功尽弃。”为了帮助子女结交益友，他会机巧地提出一些问题：“谁是你最亲密的朋友？你为什么喜欢他？你想从他那里学到什么？”另一个父亲作出安排，让子女邀请好友到家里来。这样，他就能够认识孩子的朋友，并给孩子适当的指引。要教导子女不单跟同辈，跟年长的人交朋友也是重要的。范善有三个儿子，他说：“我帮孩子们看出，交朋友不一定要同辈。圣经就提到大卫和约拿单的友谊。我邀请不同年纪的基督徒跟孩子们交往。结果，孩子们喜欢跟不同年纪的人交朋友。”子女有机会跟堪作模范的长者来往，会学到许多东西。

The text above is composed of a total of 282 characters. 265 of them (93%), highlighted in yellow, belong to the list of 1,000 most commonly used Chinese characters - for the complete list click here.

English translation:

Help Your Children Make Good Friends. "He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly."—Proverbs 13:20. A Christian father who successfully brought up four children said: "The importance of their choice of friends cannot be overemphasized. One bad friend can destroy all the work you’ve done." To help his children make good friends, he wisely asked such questions as: Who is your closest friend? Why do you like him? What about him do you want to imitate? Another parent arranges for his children to invite close friends home. He can then observe them and give his children appropriate guidance. It is also important to teach children that they can make friends with older people as well as with peers. Bum-sun, a father of three sons, says: "I help my children to appreciate that friends don’t have to be peers, as in the case of David and Jonathan in the Bible. Actually, I invite Christians of various age groups to enjoy association with my children. As a result, the children associate with many people who are not their peers." Association with exemplary seniors gives the children the advantage of learning many things.

List of different Chinese characters contained in the text above:

帮助子女结交益友跟智慧人同行就有愚昧来往难免吃亏箴言一名基督徒父亲把四个孩养育成他说留意们所选择的朋很重要损能使你前功尽弃为了会机巧地提出些问题谁是最密什么喜欢想从那里学到另作安排让邀请好家这样够认识并给适当指引教导不单辈年长也范善三儿我看定圣经大卫和约拿谊纪果堪模者许多东西

All my students agree on this point: "pinyin behind characters" is the perfect compromise to help you concentrate on reading Chinese characters. I'm sure you too will like how the 360 lessons of the course guides you to reach your goal of being able to read Chinese!