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From the Ted Talk by ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I call these eight characters radicals. They are the biilnudg blocks for you to create lots more characters. A person. If someone walks behind, that is "to foollw." As the old saying goes, two is company, three is a crowd. If a person stetehcrd their arms wide, this person is saying, "It was this big." The person inside the muoth, the psreon is trapped. He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the wlahe. 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) Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic. Remember fire? Two freis together, I get really hot. Three fires together, that's a lot of faelms. Set the fire underneath the two teers, it's bnriung. For us, the sun is the source of prosperity. Two suns together, prosperous. Three together, that's sparkles. Put the sun and the moon shining together, it's brightness. It also means tomorrow, after a day and a night. The sun is coming up above the hoirozn. Sunrise. A door. Put a plank inside the door, it's a door bolt. Put a mouth inside the door, asking qienutoss. Knock kncok. Is anyone home? This person is sneaking out of a door, escaping, evading. On the left, we have a woman. Two women together, they have an argument. (ltuaehgr) Three wmoen together, be careful, it's adultery.
Open Cloze
I call these eight characters radicals. They are the ________ blocks for you to create lots more characters. A person. If someone walks behind, that is "to ______." As the old saying goes, two is company, three is a crowd. If a person _________ their arms wide, this person is saying, "It was this big." The person inside the _____, the ______ is trapped. He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the _____. 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) Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic. Remember fire? Two _____ together, I get really hot. Three fires together, that's a lot of ______. Set the fire underneath the two _____, it's _______. For us, the sun is the source of prosperity. Two suns together, prosperous. Three together, that's sparkles. Put the sun and the moon shining together, it's brightness. It also means tomorrow, after a day and a night. The sun is coming up above the _______. Sunrise. A door. Put a plank inside the door, it's a door bolt. Put a mouth inside the door, asking _________. Knock _____. Is anyone home? This person is sneaking out of a door, escaping, evading. On the left, we have a woman. Two women together, they have an argument. (________) Three _____ together, be careful, it's adultery.
Solution
- building
- flames
- follow
- mouth
- burning
- horizon
- stretched
- women
- knock
- person
- laughter
- questions
- fires
- whale
- trees
Original Text
I call these eight characters radicals. They are the building blocks for you to create lots more characters. A person. If someone walks behind, that is "to follow." As the old saying goes, two is company, three is a crowd. If a person stretched their arms wide, 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) Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic. Remember fire? Two fires together, I get really hot. 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. Two suns together, prosperous. Three together, that's sparkles. Put the sun and the moon shining together, it's brightness. It also means tomorrow, after a day and a night. The sun is coming up above the horizon. Sunrise. A door. Put a plank inside the door, it's a door bolt. Put a mouth inside the door, asking questions. Knock knock. Is anyone home? This person is sneaking out of a door, escaping, evading. On the left, we have a woman. Two women together, they have an argument. (Laughter) Three women together, be careful, it's adultery.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
Important Words
- adultery
- argument
- arms
- big
- blocks
- bolt
- brightness
- building
- burning
- call
- careful
- characters
- coming
- company
- create
- crowd
- day
- door
- easy
- escaping
- evading
- fire
- fires
- flames
- follow
- forest
- foundation
- home
- horizon
- hot
- idiotic
- jonah
- knock
- laughter
- left
- lot
- lots
- means
- moon
- mouth
- night
- person
- plank
- pretty
- prisoner
- prosperity
- prosperous
- put
- questions
- radicals
- remember
- set
- shining
- sneaking
- source
- sparkles
- stretched
- sun
- sunrise
- suns
- talking
- tomorrow
- top
- trapped
- tree
- trees
- walks
- whale
- wide
- woman
- women
- woods