Do this mini lesson on Chinese Characters.

Answer these questions:

How many Chinese characters are there altogether?

• There are about 6-8'000 characters.  

How many characters does an educated person know?

• An ejected person knows about 2-3'000 characters.

How old are Chinese characters?

• Chinese characters are about 3'000 years old.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs?

• Because some of them are Images and are not letter.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’?

• Women and child.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?

• Electric And Vision.

Play the character game.

Watch Teletubbies in Chinese.