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From the base of Chinese strokes, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, interesting teaching, to help students sum up the composition of Chinese characters, understanding parts and radical, and find their commonalities and differences.
Chinese characters play an important role in Chinese culture. Learning Chinese characters can help students better understand Chinese and speed up their learning of Chinese so that they can read Chinese newspapers and magazines. In addition, Chinese calligraphy art is an important derivation of Chinese characters, and mastering Chinese characters can open the door to understanding Chinese calligraphy. Whats more, if you want to pass the HSK test and go to a Chinese University, Chinese must be mastered.
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Learn to Read and Write Mandarin Chinese
1. Learn Pinyin. Pinyin is a kind of Chinese writing system. The letters of Pinyin originate from the Rome alphabet, not the Chinese characters. Pinyin is very useful for Chinese learners, even if you haven't learned traditional Chinese characters, you can learn to read and write mandarin with Pinyin. There are many Chinese textbooks with Pinyin, as well as learning materials. Although Pinyin is derived from the Rome alphabet, English native speakers cannot get hang of its pronunciation immediately. Therefore, it is very important to have a correct pronunciation guidance when learning Pinyin.
2. Learn to read Chinese characters. Although recognizing Chinese characters is not a necessity for learning Chinese, many people are attracted by Chinese characters because Chinese characters will make them feel closer to traditional Chinese culture. However, in fact, it is not easy to recognize Chinese characters. In order to understand the contents of the Chinese newspapers, an ordinary Chinese reader needs to familiarise himself with about 2000 Chinese characters - and this is just the beginning. It is said that there are more than 50000 Chinese characters (though some of them are no longer used). The greatest advantage of recognizing Chinese characters is that you can learn more about other cultures, including Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. These languages, though different from Chinese in pronunciation, use Chinese characters (or simplified versions of Chinese characters) in writing.
3. Learn to write Chinese characters. Once you learn to read Chinese characters, you may be interested in the writing of Chinese characters. Learning chinese writing is a complex skill. It requires patience and a little sense of art. The first step in learning Chinese characters writing is to learn the "basic unit", that is, the independent radicals, which form the basis of Chinese characters. There are 214 radicals in Chinese, some radicals are single words, others are just part of complex Chinese characters. When writing Chinese characters, the stroke order is very important. You must follow certain rules - for example, from top to bottom, from left to right, first horizontal and then vertical. If the stroke is not correct, then the word you write is wrong.
4. Read Chinese. If you want to improve the level of Chinese reading, you need to read at least 15-20 minutes a day. First of all, you can read some children's books (basically with Pinyin) to improve your reading level, and of course, you can also find some good materials on the Internet to read. You can also use the Chinese you learned in your daily life. You can try to read the Chinese tags on food, or ask a waiter at a restaurant for a Chinese menu. Once you have improved your reading level, you can get some Chinese newspapers (Chinese version) and try your best to read the articles. This is also a good way to help you understand Chinese culture and current affairs in China.
5. Learn to write Mandarin Chinese every day. In order to improve your Chinese writing level, you can write something in Chinese every day, no matter in Pinyin or in Chinese character. One way is to write a Chinese diary every day, write something about the weather, write what you feel or what you have done every day. If you are brave enough, find some friends who speak Chinese to help you check if there are any mistakes. Or you can also find a Chinese pen pal to write to each other. This is a win-win way, you can improve your Chinese level, and your pen pal can improve his or her English level. You can also ask your pen pal to help you modify your letter and send it back to you in reply. The last way to practice Chinese writing ability is to make a Chinese list, such as shopping lists, or Chinese tags for the household objects.
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Human Writes
Performance installation by William Forsythe and Kendall Thomas
Concept: William Forsythe / Kendall Thomas
Stage / lighting / costumes: William Forsythe
Sound design: Dietrich Krüger / Niels Lanz / Thom Willems
Performance at the United Nations Office at Geneva - Feb 23, 24, 25.
In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Over 50 years later, in a joint project with Professor Kendall Thomas, The Forsythe Company focuses on the act of inscribing basic rules for both the individual and society. «Human Writes» is a performative installation that reflects the history of human rights and the continuing obstacles to their full implementation.
(Imanuel Schipper)
The Geneva performance of Human Writes was undertaken with the support of teh UN office at Geneva in cooperation with the Permanent Missions of Switzerland, the United States, and Germany.
Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe’s Remarks at the Opening of the Human Writes Performance: geneva.usmission.gov/2012/02/27/ambassador-donahoe-welcom...
See the Wiliam Forsythe Website for more information: www.williamforsythe.de/installations.html?&no_cache=1...
U.S. Mission Photos by Eric Bridiers
Alan Cleaver sits in front of his library with a Kindle in hand. Is the printed book dead?
See press release at docs.google.com/document/d/1Sat29cRaYm2n6Jo1ok8E-O2nAo5kO...
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
. . . You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
. . . Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Earlier this month I came across the Fear Not Project by Jennifer Maria Harris; I contacted her to distribute Fear Not Indirect Mail, which are magnets with messages written by participants -
This morning I found a package with magnets that are also buttons that people can wear -
Fear Not is a community-based art project that creates an anti-fear environment both on the street and in art spaces. The ongoing exhibition will include over 150 images of Fear Not Indirect Mail that has been delivered on the streets of San Francisco, Oakland, Brisbane, Austin, Chicago, Nashville, Kapa’a, and Wailua in the United States, Karlsruhe in Germany, and Florence and Milan in Italy, and London in England will be on view. Fear Not Indirect Mail involves participants writing anti-fear messages on postcards that are turned into magnets and placed somewhere out in the community (on bus stops, street signs, etc.) for someone else to find.
Lea Flanders indulged passions for journalism and world travel
By Rebecca Jones, Special To The Rocky
October 5, 2007
Lea Flanders, who first took up journalism at age 41 and proceeded to write for the Longmont Daily Times-Call for the next 48 years, died on Sept. 17 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 91.
Mrs. Flanders, who retired from writing in 2005, worked as a community news reporter, special sections editor, columnist and photographer. She won many writing awards over the years. She served as president of Colorado Press Women for two years, and she was the first woman to serve as president of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi. She is in Who's Who of American Women and Foremost Women of Communications.
"She loved the press in Colorado, and everyone in the media," said her daughter, Francea Phillips, of Longmont. Phillips said one of the highlights of her mother's life was organizing a group of 15 newswomen to attend the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995.
It was journalism that led Mrs. Flanders to discover one of her other great passions: world travel. It was sometime during the late 1950s that the newspaper challenged her to set up and lead a tour of Europe.
"She started traveling then, and she never stopped," her daughter said. "She's been around the world four times."
Phillips said family members are attempting to make a list of all the countries to which her mother traveled in her life. "So far, we're up to three pages. We believe she visited nearly every country."
Just this spring, Mrs. Flanders completed a three-month round-the-world cruise with her grandson, Andrew Phillips.
Mrs. Flanders also brought the world to Longmont. Hundreds of people stayed at her home while visiting Longmont, some for a night, some for a year or more. She sponsored two exchange students from Africa who spent a year with her, and she hosted a Japanese student, a British girl and a Swiss girl.
"She was constantly fostering an international spirit," Phillips said. "She totally believed the world was her hometown."
Born in Hugo, Mrs. Flanders graduated from high school in Colorado Springs and worked her way through college as a cosmetologist. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Colorado in 1941, and later did graduate study at Columbia University in New York.
She married Frank Flanders, a banker, in 1941. Soon after their marriage, her husband enlisted in the military during World War II, and Mrs. Flanders spent the war folding parachutes and working at the Lockheed Corp. in California.
The Flanderses returned to Longmont in 1947 and became an integral part of the community. Among the organizations in which Mrs. Flanders participated were the Red Hat Club, the Sunshine Club, the Longmont Arts Council, the Longmont Theatre Company and the Newcomers Club. "To her deathbed, she was still a member of the Newcomers Club," Phillips said. "She insisted on remaining a member all her years because she said that's where all the exciting people start."
Mrs. Flanders was preceded in death by her husband, in 1998, and by an infant son, David Harris Flanders. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by a son, Fred Flanders, and his wife, Melody, of Westminster; grandchildren Tiffany Merlo and Andrew Phillips, of Longmont, David Flanders, of London, and Rachael Flanders, of Westminster; and two great-grandchildren, Alexander and Benjamin Merlo.
A memorial service was Sept. 25 in Longmont. Contributions may be made to the St. Vrain Historical Society's Hover Home Project or a charity of choice in care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, 326 Terry St., Longmont, CO 80501.
Write Where You Are How to use writing to make sense of your live ... Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Spiritual Journaling Writing your way to Independence ... Julie Tallard Johnson
New York City Ballet Workout ... Peter Martins
Making Peace with Food ...Susan Kano
Photo Art & Craft ... Carolyn Vosburg Hall
Creative Acrylic Painting Techniques
Exercise Physiology ... Scott K. Powers Edward T. Howley
Smart Money ... Danielle Denega
The Philosopher's Diet ... Richard Watson
Wander Lust A history of walking ... Rebecca Solnit
Confessions of an Eco-Redneck ... Steve Chapple
Not Your Patents' Money Book ... Jean Chatzky
Weekend Knitting ... Melanie Falick
Give It Up! ... Mary Carlomagno
Dahn Meditation ... Lee Seung Heun
Teen Knitting Club ... Jenifer Wenger, Carol Abrams, Maureen Lasher
Protesters bring white flower and write notes after the march to Admiralty to remember Mr Leung , who fell from height to protest against the extradition bill.
HKFP: A 35-year-old man protesting Hong Kong’s extradition law bill has died after he fell from a building in Admiralty on Saturday.
The man, surnamed Leung, unfurled a banner from an elevated podium at Pacific Place reading “No extradition to China, total withdrawal of the extradition bill, we are not rioters, release the students and injured, Carrie Lam step down, help Hong Kong.”
He has written a suicide note before the protest.
www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/15/man-protesting-hong-kongs-e...
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Close to two million people hit the streets on Sunday (16th June 2019) to call on the Hong Kong government to withdraw a controversial extradition bill, according to organisers.
The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) figure represents 28.5 per cent of the city’s population, and would make the demonstration the largest in Hong Kong history.
It is almost double the turnout figure they gave for last Sunday’s anti-extradition law protest.
Police claimed 338,000 joined the designated walking route at the peak of the demonstration.
The CHRF – a coalition of pro-democracy groups – said the turnout was almost two million “plus one,” to represent a man who fell to his death on Saturday while protesting the bill. Protesters on Sunday wore all black and carried white funeral flowers to honour the 35-year-old man surnamed Leung.
Hong Kong proposed legal amendments in February to allow the city to handle case-by-case extradition requests from jurisdictions with no prior agreements, most notably China and Taiwan.
The bill would enable the chief executive and local courts to handle extradition requests without legislative oversight, although lawyers, journalists, foreign politicians and businesses have raised concerns over the risk of residents being extradited to the mainland, which lacks human rights protections.
On Saturday, following months of criticism, the government said it would postpone the bill and explain it further to the public.
www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/17/almost-2-million-attended-a...
【明報專訊】《逃犯條例》修訂風波不斷升溫，即使行政長官林鄭月娥前日宣布暫緩修例仍未能平息民憤，民陣昨日再度發起遊行，重申要求撤回修例及林太下台，遊行人潮由上周日的白衣換成黑衣，由「痛心疾首」與「撤回惡法」兩幅黑白直幡帶領，再由白晝走到黑夜。警方罕有先後全數開放軒尼詩道、駱克道、莊士敦道、謝斐道和告士打道西行線，予整天不絕的人潮。遊行歷時逾8小時才結束，民陣稱近200萬人參與，屬歷來最高遊行人數，警方則估計經原定遊行路線最高峰人數約33.8萬。
政府昨晚於遊行未結束已發聲明回應，林鄭月娥承認因為政府工作的不足，令社會出現很大矛盾和紛爭，令市民失望和痛心，就事件向市民致歉。政府強調已停止立法會大會對修訂《逃犯條例》的工作，冀社會盡快回復平靜和避免任何人受傷；但至今日凌晨截稿，大批遊行者仍未散去，在夏愨道和特首辦外聚集。
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