Dr. Ash Henson has a PhD in Chinese from National Taiwan Normal University. His dissertation focused on using the latest research in paleography and historical Chinese phonology to create a new framework for analyzing Chinese characters based on their functional components. He has professional proficiency in Mandarin and Classical Chinese, conversational proficiency in Cantonese, and is learning Japanese.

John Renfroe studied Linguistics and Paleography at the master's level at National Taiwan Normal University. His coursework and research focused on excavated Warring States bamboo texts, historical Chinese character morphology, and the Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 and its commentaries and criticism. He has professional proficiency in Mandarin and Classical Chinese, and is currently learning Japanese.

If you're learning Chinese but you're frustrated by the characters, this training will bring you clarity on the writing system. We teach you the real underlying logic of Chinese characters, based on the principles of effective memorization.

If you're interested in "character etymology," then this training is also for you. We studied the history and evolution of the writing system at the Master's and PhD level under some of the world's leading paleographers and linguists, and we're distilling that research into a simple, coherent system for explaining Chinese characters.

This training is just under an hour. We show you how to learn characters more effectively, condensing years of research and "in-the-trenches" experience as language learners into an information-packed seminar.

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