In many other cultures is unusual at first glance: Other Clothing, others eating imd habits, differ

In many other cultures is unusual at first glance: Other Clothing, others eating imd habits, different music, a different language. In many Asian countries still comes to a different font, which appears rather puzzling for us Europeans - characters instead of letters. As a German student has toiled for four years in grade school, to dominate the twenty-six letters, three umlauts imd and the sharp, S '. Anyone who wants to learn Chinese, to a far greater challenge faces: 50,000 characters, of which 10,000 in daily use. Anyone who knows less than 2,000 characters in urban areas, already (see here) is considered illiterate. In addition, our ABC looks like a failed prototype.
To teach their children Chinese, who lives in London shaolan Hsueh has long sought a suitable method of teaching imd the abstract characters easier and more fun. The search imd was long unsuccessful. But necessity is the mother of invention, and so she developed her own concept: Chineasy imd the method is called, the shaolan Hsueh at the Digital-Life-Design Conference this year presented (see here). The idea: Chinese characters are designed as an image to what they mean. The sign for humans, for example, gets a head, hands and feet. As with a modular one learns first single characters, based on which we then can build relatively quickly to to form complete sentences.
Colorful pictures, one explaining the letters, words explained as building blocks - that's not far from elementary school methods. Despite the great differences between eastern and western languages, they seem to have one thing in common: The easiest way you learn them as children they learn best.
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