Learning to read Chinese characters must be a daunting challenge for foreigners because each character is unique, right?
Well, not exactly. While there are thousands of Chinese characters, they are comprised of about 214 “building blocks” called radicals. As you learn to combine the radicals, you build up words.
It has been my desire for a long time to be fluent in Chinese. To get to that point, my requirements for 
instruction are:
Learning to write Chinese characters is not all that important important to me. Furthermore, I wanted instruction that fit my schedule. That led me to hire eChineseLearning.com.
Welcome to Lao Wai Da Wei! I’m Dave Landis and I’ve had an interest in learning languages since high school.
It started with a German class and for some reason, I decided to also take French. So, I had two years of each. My German teacher was really pretty boring, but I picked up a German graded reader and picked up quite a bit one my own. Read More…