Literate like a baby

[azurelunatic]

I was looking at a website, and it had some Chinese characters, along with the English translation.

And I was "reading" some of the components of the characters, like a little kid reads words they know in a large book.

I really should find the library and see if they have some of the same books that FatherSir had, the ones with the little cartoons and explaining about how the word evolved, and explaining of what the pictures means.

Comments

[boojum.livejournal.com]

It's also worth checking the Japanese section for books on kanji. I've seen at least one book (for which I'd love to remember identifying info) that had fairly reasonable etymological information. (I've also seen at least one book with a completely false and obfuscating way of breaking down the characters. I believe it was called "Kanji ABCs", or something similar, but it was based on assigning the characters to an English letter by basically squinting at them. Ick.)

If you find good book(s), for either Chinese or Japanese, please send me the bibliographic info. *craves*

[azurelunatic]

Do go ahead and ask FatherSir for his opinion on same; his email address is [last name]@mosquitonet.com; he and I share a last name.