3rd installment

FYI, Chinese characters are words not letters. So the best way for a new learner to read Chinese is to memorize the characters. Not easy to me since they are hard to distinguish. Only about 5 % of the characters are pictographs. The kids in China growing up learn this although in the past with a high rate of illiteracy there was some consideration to eliminating characters and adopting a pinyin system using the latin alphabet. Actually in the early years of the 20th century characters were simplified. There is much logic in combining characters since many new words are a combination of several characters. For example the word CD might include the character for music and the character for electronics. This is not an exact example but close. I am up to three characters.