How I learned 2000 Chinese characters in 50 days, and you can too - Pablo Román | PG 2018

Had you ever thought that it was possible to learn all the Chinese characters that children learn during 12 years of school in Japan and China in just a few months? I’ll show you the mnemonic technique that I used, and how you can use it too. I’ll show you how we can relate a bunch of seemingly random squiggles to things that are more familiar to us, and use that to memorize the writing of Chinese characters and make their meaning completely clear. Even shockingly similar characters that are confused all the time will become clear to us. After this talk you will see that learning to read and write an East Asian language is not as scary as many people believe it to be. Pablo Román fell in love with languages when he was living in Japan for 4 years, and realized that there’s a better and more fun way of learning them. Now he is an advocate for more effective learning methods and produces Spanish learning videos to fill the gap that exists in fun and authentic resources for beginner and intermediate