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How to Write a Poem in Chinese Characters

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Learn basic Chinese characters in this free video clip about how to write the Chinese poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight."

There are 31 videos in this series:
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  • 1.
    History of "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" Poem

    Learn the history of "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" in Chinese characters with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 624
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  • 2.
    How to Write "Look Up Toward the Bright Moon" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "look up toward the bright moon" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 455
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  • 3.
    How to Write "Lower Down the Head" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "lower down the head" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 443
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  • 4.
    How to Write "To Lift Up the Head" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "to lift up the head" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 439
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  • 5.
    How to Write a Poem in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write a poem in Chinese characters with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 482
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  • 6.
    Writing "Be" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "be" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 453
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  • 7.
    Writing "Bed" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "bed" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 862
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  • 8.
    Writing "Bright Moonlight" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "bright moonlight" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 620
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  • 9.
    Writing "Bright" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "bright" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 564
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  • 10.
    Writing "Brightening" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "brightening" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 474
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  • 11.
    Writing "Doubt" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "doubt" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 537
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  • 12.
    Writing "Doubting" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "doubting" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 502
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  • 13.
    Writing "Frost on the Ground" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "frost on the ground" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 479
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  • 14.
    Writing "Ground" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "ground" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 448
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  • 15.
    Writing "Head" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "head" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 442
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  • 16.
    Writing "Heads" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "heads" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 453
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  • 17.
    Writing "Hometown" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "hometown" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 444
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  • 18.
    Writing "In Front of The Bed" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "in front of the bed" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 464
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  • 19.
    Writing "In Front Of" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "in front of" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 632
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  • 20.
    Writing "Lift" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "lift" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 456
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  • 21.
    Writing "Lower" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "lower" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 462
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  • 22.
    Writing "Moon" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "moon" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 671
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  • 23.
    Writing "Moonlight" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "moonlight" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 602
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  • 24.
    Writing "Old" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "old" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 487
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  • 25.
    Writing "On" & "Up" in Chinese Characters

    Learn how to write "on" and "up" in Chinese characters for the poem "Longing of My Hometown in the Midnight" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

    Views: 498
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Views: 15,918 Videos in Series: 31

Tags: chinese, characters, writing, of, longing, my, hometown, poem, poetry

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Summary: The Chinese language has produced many poets studied all over the world, including Lau Tzu and Confucious. Thousands of poems from these authors remain, and their aesthetic and cultural value is unparalleled. Chinese is written mostly in logograms, characters that have structural and semantic meaning in the language, as well as pictograms, characters that look like the object that they refer to.

In these simple demonstrations, Xiaohua shows you how to write and speak in Chinese, starting with individual words like pinetree, under, ask, little kids, say, and teacher. She helps you string the words together as well, recreating the lines of a beautiful poem. This series is a great introduction to writing and speaking Chinese. Time well spent!

About the Expert

Expert: Esther-Xiaohua Liu is currently a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at Shaanxi Normal University, Chang'an University, and Xi'an Conservatory College in China. In the United States, Liu has taught Chinese to students at Northwestern University's Xiling Chinese school and the Chinese American League of Chicago, Illinois. She has also published many poems written in Chinese and in English, both in China and in the United States.

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