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#77 Reading Techniques to Master Chinese

You Can Learn Chinese

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How to Decode a Chinese Book

There's some kind of interaction going on in our brain between, like, symbols that are not phonetic and symbols that are phonetic. And somehow the the symbols on the paper or on the screen are being converted into sound, and then we're understanding and that is decoting. So what i just want to point out here is that chinese has more oth symbols. Thereis like this somantic this, ah, you know, this interpreting these pictogram slash logogram characters that are not fanatics sometimes. That's going to color all the rest of what we talk about to day. We feel it when we open up a book entirely on chine s and just see the

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