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To learn to speak the Chinese, at least conversation level, is not a task especially complex when you manage to submerge in an ambience chinoparlante.
To learn to read is another question.
In China the children learn to know the characters repeating them repeatedly. The pupils who write of incorrect form a character during the dictation, are forced to write to him hundred times. Nevertheless as soon as they stop using them, they forget them with facility.
There did not seem the best way of studying them for a foreign adult.
Fortunately I discovered some libritos that, relating the current form of the characters to the ancient pictographs from which they come, were providing a logical tool to be learning to read and write.
Unfortunately most of these texts only present a limited number of characters, which do his anecdotal reading; or they finish his analysis in the complex characters in use in Taiwan and Hong Kong, losing utility for the interested student in reading the books published in China.
On the other hand, almost all of them coincide in assigning a random process to the formation of the characters pictofonéticos (the majority) in that I was still perceiving the traces of a logical process.
When the publishing house knew this project, he asked me to organize my personal notes in a book that could present the Spanish-speaking public. Book that we divide in three sections.
The first section is like an introduction to the logic of the Chinese characters. It presents in 27 lessons, 251 Chinese characters, in which it is possible to plan of clear form his relation with the ancient pictographs.
The second section goes a little further on. Developing the same method, it presents to the reader another 1.106 characters which construction stems from the presented ones in the first section.
The third section organizes the characters called pictofonéticos, grouping them according to the radicals to whom they belong (person, metal, fire, dog, horse, the sun, water, etc.) Allowing to know this way in a rational way another 2.257 characters.
Considering the good reception that the first editions of the book had. In the year 2003 there was published an extended, corrected and improved version; with major emphasis on the didactic aspect. Indicating in the index the thousand most common characters to him, and the third part being organized by use frequency.
Ceinos, Pedro. - Manual of Writing of the Chinese Characters. Kapok tree Editions. Madrid. 2003. 396 pags.
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