was my mother showing me the beauty, the shape

as impenetrable as the Great Wall of China.

中文有如萬里長城般的高不可攀

Over the past few years, I've been wondering

so anyone who wants to understand and appreciate

the beauty of this sophisticated language could do so.

I started thinking about how a new, fast method

Since the age of five, I started to learn how to draw

接下來的十五年，我每天都學習新字

我在這裡只有五分鐘，時間相當緊迫

it's better that we have a fast and simpler way.

需得有個快速、簡單的方法來跟大家分享這個學習方法

A Chinese scholar would understand 20,000 characters.

中國讀書人能識得二萬個中文字

You only need 1,000 to understand the basic literacy.

但其實只需認得一千字就具備中文基礎了

學會最基礎的二百字就能理解四成的用語

enough to read road signs, restaurant menus,

to understand the basic idea of the web pages

This symbol actually is originally from the shape of the flame,

but I like to think that way. Whichever works for you.

但我喜歡這樣想像。其實只要你能理解，什麼方法都可以

looks like a pair of saloon doors in the wild west.

If someone walks behind, that is "to follow."

兩人結伴，三人不歡─三人為「众」（眾）

若人展開雙臂，說：「有這麼『大』」

this person is saying, "It was this big."

The person inside the mouth, the person is trapped.

He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the whale.

One tree is a tree. Two trees together, we have the woods.

Three trees together, we create the forest.

Put a plank underneath the tree, we have the foundation.

Put a mouth on the top of the tree, that's "idiot." (Laughter)

樹上長口，是「呆」子（眾笑）

Three fires together, that's a lot of flames.

Set the fire underneath the two trees, it's burning.

For us, the sun is the source of prosperity.

對中國人而言，日(太陽)為萬物之源

Put the sun and the moon shining together,

It also means tomorrow, after a day and a night.

The sun is coming up above the horizon. Sunrise.

日出為「旦」，太陽升上地平線

Put a mouth inside the door, asking questions.

Two women together, they have an argument.

「奻」，兩個女人在一起，就會起爭執

Three women together, be careful, it's adultery.

So we have gone through almost 30 characters.

現在我們已經談了將近三十個字

By using this method, the first eight radicals

如此你就能輕而易舉的學會數百個中文字

you will be able to learn a couple hundred characters,

which is the same as a Chinese eight-year-old.

相當於一個八歲的中國小孩的中文水平

So after we know the characters, we start building phrases.

For example, the mountain and the fire together,

We know Japan is the land of the rising sun.

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