Haha, well, I feel that one's easy too if you know that sometimes characters are used as phonetics for words in other languages. Just like English! Although y

Haha, well, I feel that one's easy too if you know that sometimes characters are used as phonetics for words in other languages. Just like English! Although you might not expect that at first from a non-phonetically written language. Every language has exceptions to "rules". In fact, there are few hard and fast rules for any language, since every language is a mix of another. But, once you get comfortable with a language, you can appreciate the differences and make interesting guesses about the exceptions' origins. It can be fun. I like http://www.hanzicraft.com/ http://www.hanzicraft.com/ because it breaks down the characters into parts you can click on to get their definitions or origins. Hacking chinese also has a cool resources section here [1], categorized, so you can browse through dictionaries, listening tools, practice tests, browser add-ons, etc. etc. [1] http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources/Beginner http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources/Beginner