Learning Basic Learning Skills Makes Your Life Best

Here is a list of problems, new students often face when starting to learn Chinese:

1. Recognizing and writing the characters.

2. How to correctly pronounce characters.

3. The Meaning of each character.

4. Finding the right character.

New technology has helped overcome these barriers offering not only a fun way to learn but more effectively and efficiently.

It is documented that there are over 80,000 Chinese characters. Luckily for us , many are rarely used today. The modern version of the language only requires the average person to know about 3,500 characters to be proficient.

The kicker is, for each English word translated into Chinese, it usually uses two or more characters. Each character is linked together, read from left to right, and is written in relation to its purpose within the content of the text.

Chinese writing comes in many different forms and styles. Some date back to very ancient times and began as pictures. Today, there are normally two forms used: simplified and traditional.

Simplified is predominately and officially used in mainland China, while the more traditional form can be found in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

So, are you ready to learn Chinese? Find out in my next post.


Did you know that the Chinese Olympic Logo is an interpreted version of the ancient character "jing" which means "capital"?

How To Set Up Google AdSense To Make Your Life Better

Google AdSense is a by product of Google AdWords. Goggle AdWords are the ads you see when you search on Google and you see the ads on the right side of the page under the title, "Sponsored Links" or when you visit a site and you see the row or column that say, "Ads By Google".

Google AdSense is the means of placing the "Ads by Google" on your site to bring in some income.

Here is how you can get started:

1. Sign up for an AdSense account

It takes a couple minutes to create your user name and password. You only need one account! It is considered "black hat" or "bad" to set up more than one account and Google will boot you out if you try to set up more than one account.

2. Then you follow the instructions in the "AdSense Set-Up" tab. You can change colors and fit the look of the ads to meet your theme of your blog.

3. After you have identified the ad "look" and any variables such as a filter for ads you may not want, such as a competitor's ad.

What Google does, is place ads on your site that are in relation to the content you have written in your posts. So, setting up blocks or filters may be beneficial.

4. After that, Google AdSense will give you code to copy and then paste into your blog. Each blog service is a little different so if you have additional questions please email me at admin@MyBestLifeNow.com and I will try to figure it out.

On Blogger they have made it really easy. Go to your http://www.yourdomain.blogspot.com/ site and click on "Customize" on the top right corner. That will open up 3 main tabs and you will be on the "Layout/page element" page. Go to the blue text "add a page element" and click. There will be a list of elements you can add.

If you want to just add the copied code from Google AdSense click "add html/java script" and paste the code there and save. If you want life to be super easy... after you have opened your AdSense account you can go to the "AdSense" page element (also located in the "Add Page Element" page and if you have your AdSense account up, it should pop open a page where you can customize the ads you want on your blog there and then click "save" and voila, you have AdSense on your page!

People often ask, "How much money can I make with AdSense?" Well, more than likely it isn't a who lot, especially in the beginning. Most who do make a lot on AdWords have multiple sites (like 1000+) to make a living at it. Those whose site is very popular may only need the one site but again their site is VERY popular.

I don't mean to discourage you, because this is a free service and over a period of time you can earn an extra $100-$200 a month. Not something to cough at especially with the rise of gas and grocery prices.

Things to remember:
1. Only open one account: Google is strict about this and will hunt you down and boot you out when they find you!
2. Google does not allow you to click on your own ads
3. Google frowns on you asking friends and family to click on your ads.
4. Good Karma: Visiting other sites and clicking on others' ads will persuade others to visit and click on your ads.