{"id":57,"date":"2013-12-04T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenchinese.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2020-12-30T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:14:28","slug":"learning-from-metro-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writtenchinese.com\/learning-from-metro-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m at Xiangmihu \u9999\u871c\u6e56: Learning from Metro Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Posted by Bethany from W<\/strong>rittenC<\/strong>hinese.C<\/strong>om<\/em><\/p>\n

Added to by Hollie (July 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

When I first moved to China, one of the most frustrating things was not being able to read anything. With learning Chinese, unless you know the proper stroke order or have a special character recognizer program on your phone, reading unknown characters is very, very diffhttps:\/\/www.writtenchinese.comicult.<\/p>\n

There are situations in public, however, where Chinese characters are displayed with their pinyin. These are great places to begin learning characters! My city, Shenzhen, has pinyin displayed with characters for the metro line stops. The metro is a good place to begin learning characters because you can hear the names of the stations every day and look up the meaning while you wait for your stop! Now, how do you look up the meaning?<\/p>\n

First, get yourself a snazzy looking mobile dictionary<\/a> with lots of smart tools and features and look up the pinyin!<\/p>\n

Need a pinyin keyboard? We have instructions for several devices and platforms that you can check out here<\/a>. If your device is missing and you need help, please leave us a message and we\u2019ll add your device!<\/p>\n

\"BEIpinyin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bethany suggests learning from the station names (totally agree) you can also learn from the signs, billboards and maybe even people who are commuting with you. Most of these signs and things don\u2019t have pinyin, let alone English, so how do we learn from them?<\/p>\n

There are two options:<\/strong><\/p>\n