Character Practice Template

calkins
 February 12, 2008, 08:12 PM posted in General Discussion
I'm sure this is nothing new, but I created the following character practice template and thought I'd share it with everyone. Click on the image to download a letter size PDF:

 


 



 


I plan on printing a bunch of these and making a character writing notebook. My goal for 2008 is 5 new characters a day...

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darcey
 February 12, 2008, 11:28 PM

This is neat! I've been working a lot with regular gridded paper as well as some I've found via searching "grid practise Chinese characters" on the internet, and I'll be adding this to my practise pile.

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sebire
 February 12, 2008, 11:51 PM

I tried to learn 5 new characters a day. I gave up on that after a while. I've gone for the random osmosis approach.

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calkins
 February 13, 2008, 12:37 AM

Sebire, to be honest, I've already slipped (and it's only February)! I think I'm averaging maybe 2 or 3 a day. I'll be happy if I learn 700 by 2009. Darcey, happy you liked the template. I also searched the web quite a bit for something similar in a bound notebook, but couldn't find anything. So I found the grid and tweaked it to my liking. I hope to stick with the hand-writing, because it's all been on my palm pilot up to this point, using a stylus (not quite the same).

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wei1xiao4
 February 13, 2008, 01:01 AM

Thanks Calkins. You have inspired me to get more diligent with my writing practice.

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cassielin
 February 13, 2008, 01:09 AM

Wow, that template remind me my childhood ,especially the elementary school time. Every day we had many homework that practiced the chinese characters and recited those characters during that period. anyway, you guys, don't worry about your chinese learning. If you can keep learning, you will master it one day. So do i. I am keeping learning english everyday, i try to enlarge my vocabulary every second. And i also try to keep balance of my speaking, listening, writing and reading. 永不言弃！yong bu yan qi=Never give up!