Tips #1 For Using Our Bilingual Flash Cards

Our flash cards have Chinese characters, pinyin, and English. Since they are delivered to you via email, you can print out lots of copies to use in different ways.

One very useful exercise is to divide the Chinese character cards and English cards into two piles. You can practice alone or make this into a game, which is especially good for children. Pick an English card. Now find the character that matches it. If you are playing this as a game, shuffle the English cards and distribute them among the players. Take turns finding the character matches. The person who matches the most cards wins. You can print out two or more sets of the Chinese cards for this purpose (so that if one person picks incorrectly, that character card will still be available for another person to choose).