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OK, here is what I would need to make the inclusion of learning characters

for materia medica doable. I need character worksheets organized

according to the 32 categories in bensky. At the top of the worksheet

would be the category name in characters with pinyin underneath and

wisemanese underneath that. then each character would have its stroke

order diagrammed. Plus worksheets for the names of each of the herbs I

teach. When I took chinese, we used tracing paper to do these assignments

so you can copy right over the actual character at first. My sole

additional goal in adding this material would be character recognition.

The wiseman terms for all functions and treatment principles are already

carefully and comprehensively defined in the lecture. I will not expect

students to be able to draw characters nor pronounce them. The goal will

be strictly to read medical chinese, not write or speak it. However, most

will find that learning to draw characters is the best way to learn how to

read them and of course, it is easier to remember an image with a name.

Students will thus be required to do workbook assignments that should take

less than 15 minutes per week. They will only be quizzed on character

recognition, though, such as " the following characters are a. ren shen, b.

....., etc. " However, in order for this to be of lasting value, this

information will have to be re-tested on year end exams.

 

 

Chinese Herbs

 

 

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