The 5th Skill: Handwriting  WARNING: This article is an
explanation of the footnote in my conceptual breakdown of
foreign language teaching. It’s really written more for language
teachers and testers than learners.  Language instruction is
typically divided into four skills:  4 Skills for Most Foreign
Languages  Aural Visual Reception Listening Reading Production
Speaking Writing  But for learning Chinese, the visual skills
involved are so special, I recommend breaking writing down into
two separate skills: typing and handwriting.  5 Skills for
Chinese (and any language that uses Chinese characters)  Aural
Visual Reception Listening Reading Production Speaking Typing
Allow me to oversimplify the state of all world languages before
I explain why this is a good idea.   (clip source)  World
Writing Systems  There are basically only two major categories
of writing systems in the world. The most common type
(phonograms) is when you write something that shows the sound of
the word. For example, “c” + “a” + “t” giv