Writing practice helps to consolidate your grasp of vocabulary and grammar. Sentences are major components of an article, so begin to write single sentences before short articles. Do it step by step.
Below are major ways we used to learn writing in China in our childhood.
Sentence making
If you have regular extensive and intensive reading, you will get familiar with many useful expressions and sentence patterns. Try to use them as models to do sentence making.
Sentence pattern exchanging
By rewriting the sentences, practice expressing the same meaning with different patterns.
Text shortening and rewriting
It helps to understand the text, and helps to write compositions. It can foster your ability to summarize and to use Chinese freely.
It is good if you have a native Chinese pen-pal to help you check the grammar and words usage.
In addition to practice, writing skills will be improved steadily with your continuous efforts on reading because reading leads to the shaping of your thoughts, which then naturally leads you to respond in writing with varying degrees of fluency.
Recommended mode: Pen-pal, blog
Recommended reference books:
Developing Writing Skills in Chinese
Intermediate Chinese (Routledge Grammars)
Schaum's Outline of Chinese Vocabulary
The characters below are ordered by their frequency of use. For example, this first page includes the top 200 most commonly used Chinese characters.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
的 | 是 | 不 | 我 | 一 | 有 | 大 | 在 | 人 | ||
10: | 了 | 中 | 到 | 資 | 要 | 可 | 以 | 這 | 個 | 你 |
20: | 會 | 好 | 為 | 上 | 來 | 就 | 學 | 交 | 也 | 用 |
30: | 能 | 如 | 文 | 時 | 沒 | 說 | 他 | 看 | 提 | 那 |
40: | 問 | 生 | 過 | 下 | 請 | 天 | 們 | 所 | 多 | 麼 |
50: | 小 | 想 | 得 | 之 | 還 | 電 | 出 | 工 | 對 | 都 |
60: | 機 | 自 | 後 | 子 | 而 | 訊 | 站 | 去 | 心 | 只 |
70: | 家 | 知 | 國 | 台 | 很 | 信 | 成 | 章 | 何 | 同 |
80: | 道 | 地 | 發 | 法 | 無 | 然 | 但 | 嗎 | 當 | 於 |
90: | 本 | 現 | 年 | 前 | 真 | 最 | 和 | 新 | 因 | 果 |
100: | 定 | 意 | 情 | 點 | 題 | 其 | 事 | 方 | 清 | 科 |
110: | 樣 | 些 | 吧 | 三 | 此 | 位 | 理 | 行 | 作 | 經 |
120: | 者 | 什 | 謝 | 名 | 日 | 正 | 華 | 話 | 開 | 實 |
130: | 再 | 城 | 愛 | 與 | 二 | 動 | 比 | 高 | 面 | 又 |
140: | 車 | 力 | 或 | 種 | 像 | 應 | 女 | 教 | 分 | 手 |
150: | 打 | 已 | 次 | 長 | 太 | 明 | 己 | 路 | 起 | 相 |
160: | 主 | 關 | 鳳 | 間 | 呢 | 覺 | 該 | 十 | 外 | 凰 |
170: | 友 | 才 | 民 | 系 | 進 | 使 | 她 | 著 | 各 | 少 |
180: | 全 | 兩 | 回 | 加 | 將 | 感 | 第 | 性 | 球 | 式 |
190: | 把 | 被 | 老 | 公 | 龍 | 程 | 論 | 及 | 別 | 給 |