On Approaches of Teaching Westerners How to Learn Chinese Characters

Chinese characters' teaching should be developed by the features of Chinese characters and cognition for westerners.Students should recognize that alphabetic writing and Chinese characters are the characters of different systems.We should solve the problem in understanding and reading of the Chinese characters based on the characteristics that Chinese characters have symbols of expressing sound.The approaches of teaching Chinese characters are Strokes first,pit one against ten,extending a radical on one side of a character,comprehend by analogy.