Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass
In this 90-day online video course, you'll learn how Chinese characters actually work and by the end of this course, you'll be a master at learning Chinese characters!!
You'll get access to 1-2 videos per week, plus supporting PDF materials covering 25 characters specifically chosen to reinforce that week's topic.
You'll get lifetime access to over a dozen video lessons about Chinese characters and how to learn them, plus you'll learn:
- 300 characters, specially curated to teach you how characters actually work
- all about functional components in characters
- how to learn new characters more efficiently
- how to recall characters you've learned more reliably
- tips for learning vocabulary
This course does not require you to own or use any of our other products—it's entirely self-contained! But we will provide you with a discount code in case you do wish to purchase any of our products.
Choose "Inner Circle" instead of "Masterclass" to get access to a weekly 60-minute group Q&A session!
Curriculum:
Unit I: Intro and Foundations
Week 0: Intro to the course/what to expect
Week 1: Rules of Memory
Week 2: Three Attributes of Writing/Three Functions
Week 3: Deep Structure, Surface Structure, and Stroke Order
Unit II: How Chinese Characters Actually Work
Week 4: Form Components
Week 5: Meaning Components
Week 6: Sound Components
Week 7: Sound series (characters with the same sound component)
Week 8: Empty Components
Week 9: All about character meanings
Unit III: Learning New Characters and Recalling Learned Characters
Week 10: The "IME Method"
Week 11: Spaced Repetition
Week 12: The Pipelining Strategy
Week 13: The Minimalist Strategy
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Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass
Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass
In this 90-day online video course, you'll learn how Chinese characters actually work and by the end of this course, you'll be a master at learning Chinese characters!!
You'll get access to 1-2 videos per week, plus supporting PDF materials covering 25 characters specifically chosen to reinforce that week's topic.
You'll get lifetime access to over a dozen video lessons about Chinese characters and how to learn them, plus you'll learn:
- 300 characters, specially curated to teach you how characters actually work
- all about functional components in characters
- how to learn new characters more efficiently
- how to recall characters you've learned more reliably
- tips for learning vocabulary
This course does not require you to own or use any of our other products—it's entirely self-contained! But we will provide you with a discount code in case you do wish to purchase any of our products.
Choose "Inner Circle" instead of "Masterclass" to get access to a weekly 60-minute group Q&A session!
Curriculum:
Unit I: Intro and Foundations
Week 0: Intro to the course/what to expect
Week 1: Rules of Memory
Week 2: Three Attributes of Writing/Three Functions
Week 3: Deep Structure, Surface Structure, and Stroke Order
Unit II: How Chinese Characters Actually Work
Week 4: Form Components
Week 5: Meaning Components
Week 6: Sound Components
Week 7: Sound series (characters with the same sound component)
Week 8: Empty Components
Week 9: All about character meanings
Unit III: Learning New Characters and Recalling Learned Characters
Week 10: The "IME Method"
Week 11: Spaced Repetition
Week 12: The Pipelining Strategy
Week 13: The Minimalist Strategy
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In this 90-day online video course, you'll learn how Chinese characters actually work and by the end of this course, you'll be a master at learning Chinese characters!!
You'll get access to 1-2 videos per week, plus supporting PDF materials covering 25 characters specifically chosen to reinforce that week's topic.
You'll get lifetime access to over a dozen video lessons about Chinese characters and how to learn them, plus you'll learn:
- 300 characters, specially curated to teach you how characters actually work
- all about functional components in characters
- how to learn new characters more efficiently
- how to recall characters you've learned more reliably
- tips for learning vocabulary
This course does not require you to own or use any of our other products—it's entirely self-contained! But we will provide you with a discount code in case you do wish to purchase any of our products.
Choose "Inner Circle" instead of "Masterclass" to get access to a weekly 60-minute group Q&A session!
Curriculum:
Unit I: Intro and Foundations
Week 0: Intro to the course/what to expect
Week 1: Rules of Memory
Week 2: Three Attributes of Writing/Three Functions
Week 3: Deep Structure, Surface Structure, and Stroke Order
Unit II: How Chinese Characters Actually Work
Week 4: Form Components
Week 5: Meaning Components
Week 6: Sound Components
Week 7: Sound series (characters with the same sound component)
Week 8: Empty Components
Week 9: All about character meanings
Unit III: Learning New Characters and Recalling Learned Characters
Week 10: The "IME Method"
Week 11: Spaced Repetition
Week 12: The Pipelining Strategy
Week 13: The Minimalist Strategy



