Day 12 - Electric Brain

So here are the characters I learnt today.

Han 汉

five 五

language 语

Chinese language 汉语

to follow, to walk slowly 夂

each 各

guest 客

you're welcome 不客气

to hit 打

to make a telephone call 打电话

cup 杯

cup 杯子

doctor 医生

time 时

to wait 候

time 时候

receptacle (radical) 凵

brain 脑

computer 电脑

scholar 士

fortune 吉

to enjoy 喜

yawn 欠

to be pleased 欢

to like 喜欢

Stupidly difficult. I got off to a good start, but the last 5 characters were really difficult for me.

How am I supposed to remember that 欢 is to be pleased? It has the character for 'right hand' on the left and 'yawn' on the right. Am I supposed to remember someone giving a thumbs up with their right hand while yawning? Annoying, and I kept getting it wrong.

On the other hand there was a fun one. 电 is electricity. 脑 is brain. So put them together, 电脑 and you get 'computer'. An electric brain. Clever.

These new 25 characters brings my total to 300 characters. As an insight into my learning routine. It's evening now and I won't look at these characters again today. But tomorrow I will go over them about 5 or 6 times throughout the day. 

Anyway, good bye.