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Q: Chinese words you find easy to remember?
Mine are mostly animals and swear words, don't seem to have many problems remembering those.
10 years 44 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
They symbol for Chicken because it looks like a chicken. Also I've gotten very familiar with water and person. The person character looks like legs walking and the water is sort of easy to remember because it's everywhere. Also, the word middle it's like a box or square with a line running through it. (
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He he, I said: "running"!
Traveler:
I like you, Silva. Nobody believes that you aren't Chinese, but you keep right on pretending anyway 
Regarding characters - the first two I learned were 中 and 人。 Saw them everywhere, on the sides of buses, billboards..I guess they're pretty simple characters.
没事儿,with the er lasting for at least 2 seconds: 4 i like the way the r sounds
rang kai...rang kai..! = MOVE !
I use it from the minute I leave home
The first words I learned were tim bo dong, I like the sound.
The first characters were 哈哈 for ha ha and 说 for said because it looks like a cat
Ai Yo! Even back in the US, I use that almost daily. My dog has learned to hide when he hears me say it. :)
On my second day in China at Shanghai, knowing no Chinese except ni hao and zai jian I learnt to ask for
hua sheng (peanuts). I was hungry at the time.
and there's a bad joke about who is flower's mother? that I learnt later.
They do have many puns based on their innumerable homophones
Now my favourites are Na zenme ban (What are we going to do now?) and mei banfa (no solution)
