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Hacking Chinese

Author : Olle Linge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530334889
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Hacking Chinese written by Olle Linge and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Chinese can be frustrating and difficult, partly because it's very different from European languages. Following a teacher, textbook or language course is not enough. They show you the characters, words and grammar you need to become proficient in Chinese, but they don't teach you how to learn them! Regardless of what program you're in (if any), you need to take responsibility for your own learning. If you don't, you will miss many important things that aren't included in the course you're taking. If you study on your own, you need to be even more aware of what you need to do, what you're doing at the moment and the difference between them. Here are some of the questions I have asked and have since been asked many times by students: How do I learn characters efficiently? How do I get the most out of my course or teacher? Which are the best learning tools and resources? How can I become fluent in Mandarin? How can I improve my pronunciation? How do I learn successfully on my own? How can I motivate myself to study more? How can I fit learning Chinese into a busy schedule? The answers I've found to these questions and many others form the core of this book. It took eight years of learning, researching, teaching and writing to figure these things out. Not everybody has the time to do that! I can't go back in time and help myself learn in a better way, but I can help you! This book is meant for normal students and independent language learners alike. While it covers all major areas of learning, you won't learn Chinese just by reading this book. It's like when someone on TV teaches you how to cook: you won't get to eat the delicious dish just by watching the program; you have to do the cooking yourself. That's true for this book as well. When you apply what you learn, it will boost your learning, making every hour you spend count for more, but you still have to do the learning yourself. This is what a few readers have said about the book: "The book had me nodding at a heap of things I'd learnt the hard way, wishing I knew them when I started, as well as highlighting areas that I'm currently missing in my study." - Geoff van der Meer, VP engineering "This publication is like a bible for anyone serious about Chinese proficiency. It's easy for anyone to read and written with scientific precision." - Zachary Danz, foreign teacher, children's theatre artist About me I started learning Chinese when I was 23 (that's more than eight years ago now) and have since studied in many different situations, including serious immersion programs abroad, high-intensity programs in Sweden, online courses, as well as on the side while working or studying other things. I have also successfully used my Chinese in a graduate program for teaching Chinese as a second language, taught entirely in Chinese mostly for native speakers (the Graduate Institute for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University). All these parts have contributed to my website, Hacking Chinese, where I write regularly about how to learn Mandarin.

Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters

Author : Alison Matthews
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290128X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters written by Alison Matthews and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly book is aimed at helping students of Mandarin Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters. At last--there is a truly effective and enjoyable way to learn Chinese characters! This book helps students to learn and remember both the meanings and the pronunciations of over 800 characters. This otherwise daunting task is made easier by the use of techniques based on the psychology of learning and memory. key principles include the use of visual imagery, the visualization of short "stories," and the systematic building up of more complicated characters from basic building blocks. Although Learning Chinese Characters is primarily a book for serious learners of Mandarin Chinese, it can be used by anyone with interest in Chinese characters, without any prior knowledge of Chinese. It can be used alongside (or after, or even before) a course in the Chinese language. All characters are simplified (as in mainland China), but traditional characters are also given, when available. Key features: Specially designed pictures and stories are used in a structured way to make the learning process more enjoyable and effective, reducing the need for rote learning to the absolute minimum. The emphasis throughout is on learning and remembering the meanings and pronunciations of the characters. Tips are also included on learning techniques and how to avoid common problems. Characters are introduced in a logical sequence, which also gives priority to learning the most common characters first. Modern, simplified characters are used, with pronunciations given in pinyin. Key information is given for each character, including radical, stroke-count, traditional form, compounds, and guidance on writing the character. This is a practical guide with a clear, concise and appealing layout, and it is well-indexed with easy lookup methods. The 800 Chinese characters and 1,033 compounds specified for the original HSK Level A proficiency test are covered.

Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1

Author : James W. Heisig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 written by James W. Heisig and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the traditional Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage." "Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memory. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process."--BOOK JACKET.

Basic Chinese Characters and Radicals

Author : Wenyi Cao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615889146
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Basic Chinese Characters and Radicals written by Wenyi Cao and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bushou - Chinese Radicals Writing Practice Worksheets

Author : Michael Borgers
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Bushou - Chinese Radicals Writing Practice Worksheets written by Michael Borgers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Chinese characters seems overwhelming because they look so complex and there are so many.Did you know that all existing characters consist of only 214 components (So-called radicals)?By learning this "alphabet" first you will have the following advantages: In many cases, you can guess the meaning of an unknown character just by looking at the components You remember new characters much faster by the combination of their components You will be able to look up any character in a dictionary You already know the stroke order when learning new characters You will lose your frustration by seeing the big picture of how the characters work Many of the radicals (Bushou) are words themselves which are used in everyday Chinese Buy this workbook and start practicing today to fast track your Chinese learning skills.

Enjoy Learning Chinese Characters

Author : Kum Ho Park
Publisher : Kong & Park Llc
ISBN 13 : 9788997134090
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Enjoy Learning Chinese Characters written by Kum Ho Park and published by Kong & Park Llc. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Chinese characters are commonly known as pictograms, most Chinese learners wonder if they can possibly learn thousands of characters. Some give up altogether and choose to learn only Pinyin, the romanized form of Chinese characters and so their use of the language becomes very limited. However, considering that the people who devised the Chinese language and most of the people who write and speak it every day are not geniuses, we have found a shortcut, an easier way, that would help people appreciate and learn the Chinese characters. This book has been written to share that secret with you! Countries that still use Chinese characters in their vocabulary are China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore), Korea and Japan. China, for obvious reasons, uses it most often. The simplified characters are used in China and Singapore, whereas Taiwan and Hong Kong use the original complicated characters. Japan uses a mix of both. Korea has her own alphabet Hangul, but up to 60% of the vocabulary has borrowed meaning from Chinese characters. Therefore, if you don't know them, it is very hard for you to understand their true meanings. For these reasons, many researches on Chinese characters have been carried out mostly in China, Korea and Japan. We have taken into account the opinions of scholars from these three countries and shortlisted 3,500 characters, which outnumbers the 2,633 characters in the HSK Level 1-6 characters list. This book contains 1,160 characters that explain about the most frequently-used 856 characters including 623 characters in the HSK Level 1-3 list. Chinese characters are based on inscriptions found on bones and tortoise carapaces used in the 14th and 12th century B.C. centuries. In the 6th and 7th centuries, they were said to have been passed on to nations in the Korean peninsula at that time, and then passed on to Japan. All languages change with time and Chinese was no exception. The usage of Chinese characters in Korea and Japan retain the original form and meaning of when they were passed on, so it was very helpful to have the input of scholars from the three countries. This book is an attempt to compile the opinions of scholars from these three countries, and the authors' personal interpretations of the inscriptions on bronze, bones and tortoise carapaces to explain the origin of the characters. The authors' aim is to help our readers understand the characters, not to become scholars in their own right. But that does not mean this book is a pet project. It is intended to help readers further understand the meanings of all Chinese characters.

The Chinese Language

Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824810689
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley

First 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition

Author : Laurence Matthews
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462910130
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book First 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition written by Laurence Matthews and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters. All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. This character book is intended for beginning Chinese students and features characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning. The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. The stroke order guides are printed with gray guidelines, designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided. This Chinese character book contains: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character. Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly. Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building. Hanyu pinyin romanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.

First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition

Author : Laurence Matthews
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901719
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition written by Laurence Matthews and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters. All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. This character book is intended for beginning Chinese students. It presents characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning. The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. Printed with gray guidelines, the stroke order guides are designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided. This Chinese character book contains: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character. Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly. Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building. Hanyu pinyin romanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.

Chinese Characters Made Easy

Author : Michael L. Kluemper
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780804843850
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Characters Made Easy written by Michael L. Kluemper and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly-visual book introduces an effective new method for learning Chinese characters using visual stimuli and pictographs. Learning the basic characters used to write even simple Chinese sentences can be a long and arduous process. Chinese Characters Made Easy makes the learning process fun and easy by presenting the 1,000 most common characters using a new mnemonic approach that associates each character with a memorable visual and verbal clue—making memorization easy. The character for person, for example, is superimposed over a sketch of a man representing "a person standing on two legs"—drawing the reader's attention to the distinctive shape of the character and associating the sketch with the character's meaning. The Chinese characters are presented in groups or clusters all sharing common elements and meanings, for context and ease of identification. These groups of characters all share common root symbols known as radicals, or relate to a particular theme or topic such as colors, numbers, animals, or body parts. Pronunciations, meanings and vocabulary compounds are provided for each character in the group. A free audio CD provides native-speaker pronunciations for all the characters and their associated vocabulary. A short introduction explains the history and structure of the Chinese writing system. This Chinese character book's visual approach is a powerful learning tool. It can be used by serious students and is entertaining and useful to general readers who are curious about how the Chinese writing system works and how it developed.

Chinese ABC

Author : Anna Butova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792833359
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Chinese ABC written by Anna Butova and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy guide aimed at complete beginners demonstrates the basic Chinese "letters" called strokes, as well as simple characters where these are used. There are twelve main units. Each unit consists of one new stroke and three new characters exemplifying its use. Some of the characters covered in these units can be combined to make two-character words, and these are shown as well, for the convenience of a beginner student, in the second half of the book called "Extra Vocabulary". This book can be used as a supplement to beginner courses or as a standalone introduction into Mandarin Chinese.

Chinese Characters

Author : Alan Hoenig
Publisher : Dr. Alan Hoenig
ISBN 13 : 0982232403
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Characters written by Alan Hoenig and published by Dr. Alan Hoenig. This book was released on 2009 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese--how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters--is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings with the characters' visual components. A sequence of numbered panels displays each character in two font styles, and a notation in the adjacent margin describes the character's pinyin pronunciation. Graphics that identify the components or characters from which the featured characters are drawn, and a listing of both the names of these root components, and the panel numbers that cite their location in the book augment the presentation. Beginners will be best served by using this guide in conjunction with the development of language skills, while those who are familiar with the language will find this book to be a comprehensive reference and refresher.

Comprehensive 220 Chinese Radicals, the Gene of Chinese Culture!

Author : David Yao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive 220 Chinese Radicals, the Gene of Chinese Culture! written by David Yao and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Radicals 部首Chinese characters can be decomposed into components called radicals or bushou部首. I collected comprehensive 220 Chinese Radicals. You can consider radical as the Gene of Chinese Culture! Mastering the Genealogical Charts of Chinese Characters, you can use this key to decipher Chinese Characters, Expand your vocabulary in an Amazing way! (辨析部首，解密汉字基因，扩大识字率).A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. This component is often a semantic indicator similar to a morpheme, though sometimes it may be a phonetic component or even an artificially extracted portion of the character. The most commonly accepted table of radicals for traditional Chinese characters consists of 214 entries. These 214 radicals were popularized back in the reign of Qing emperor Kangxi, who commissioned what is now known as the KangXi Great dictionary. In modern dictionary, the 214 radicals are used as an indexing item for looking up a Chinese character in the Dictionary. Most of the Radicals are associated with a meaning, similar to Latin Root Words used in English. There are few Radicals "一丨丶丿乙亅二" which only used for indexing and has no meanings.In our "Origin of Chinese Characters" series, only the Radicals which associate with meanings will be collected. The Characters associated with each Radical will be listed out from China Characters Standard Collection (GB 2312, 6763 Characters in total). There are around 220 Chinese Radicals in my collections, From our statistic study and analysis, we found the Most Common 20 Chinese Radicals, 9% (20 / 220) Radicals cover 51% of total Chinese Characters. What's this amazing discovery means for you, who are facing daunting task to recognize, to memorize, and to write out Chinese Characters?Here are the answers, our products based on many years' pioneering effort.-Decoding Chinese Characters by Radicals- The Secrets of How Chinese Characters Were Created, The Roots of Chinese Civilization (100 Radicals) -Decoding Chinese Characters' Secrets! - Expand Your Vocabulary in Smart Way -Learn Chinese in the Smart Way - Decoding Top 20 Chinese Radicals which Account 51% of Characters -The 50 Chinese Radicals Roots You Must Know- Decoding Chinese and Expanding Vocabulary for HSK, IB, IGCSE -Decipher Chinese Characters' Secrets! -Improve Reading Skills for HSK, IB, IGCSE by Analyzing Radicals

Learn Chinese Radicals

Author : Daniel Schoeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781095606100
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Learn Chinese Radicals written by Daniel Schoeman and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for students new to the writing and reading of Chinese characters.A list of the 214 standard Chinese radicals and their variants is provided (both Traditional and Simplifed Chinese characters).Every radical is provided with its: - Pinyin pronunciation, - Meaning in English, - Number of strokes.A page spread consists of 12 radicals provided in the left column and 16 writing boxes per row to practice in.Each radical can be written 16 times, across two pages.Blank pages are provided for copying.

Reading and Writing Chinese

Author : William McNaughton
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780804842990
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing Chinese written by William McNaughton and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete and easy–to–use guide for reading and writing Chinese characters. Learning written Chinese is an essential part of mastering the Chinese language. Used as a standard by students and teachers learning to read Chinese and write Chinese for more than three decades, the bestselling Reading & Writing Chinese has been thoroughly revised and updated. Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters' current definitions, derivations, pronunciations, and examples of correct usage by utilizing cleverly condensed grids. This guide also focuses on Pinyin, which is the official system to transcribe Hanzi, Chinese characters, into Latin script, now universally used in mainland China and Singapore. Traditional characters (still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) are also included, making this a complete reference. Newly updated and revised, these characters are the ones officially prescribed by the Chinese government for the internationally recognized test of proficiency in Chinese, the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK). The student's ability to read and write Chinese are reinforced throughout the text. Key features of this newly-expanded edition include: The 1,725 most frequently used characters in both Simplified and Traditional forms. All 2,633 characters and 5,000+ compounds required for the HSK Exam. Standard Hanyu Pinyin romanizations. More mnemonic phrases and etymologies to help you remember the characters. An extensive introduction, alphabetical index, and index according to stroke count and stroke order. Completely updated/expanded English definitions. Convenient quick-reference tables of radicals. Updated and revised compounds, plus 25% more vocabulary now offered. Codes to assist those who are preparing for the AP exam or the HSK exam.

Second 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition

Author : Alison Matthews
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462911951
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Second 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified Character Edition written by Alison Matthews and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach that helps students to learn, recognize and write the second 100 most common Chinese characters. Intended for beginning Chinese students, the characters listed have been carefully selected and sequenced for rapid and effective learning. Each Chinese character is shown separately on a single page, along with its English definitions, pinyin romanization, alternate form (if any), a stroke-order guide and ample space for writing practice. Printed in gray lines, the stroke-order guides introduce the student to the standard stroke sequence used in writing the characters by tracing them. After learning the correct stroke order, the student can then practice writing the characters on their own, thus reinforcing the recognition and memorization. Large boxes with grid lines for correct proportions are provided. Related compounds and phrases containing each character are also included to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes--alphabetically arranged by the English meanings, by pinyin romanization, and by radicals--are provided at the back of the book for quick and easy reference. This Chinese character book features: The second 100 most frequently-used characters Foundation characters for HSK Level 1 test Standard pinyin romanizations Step-by-step stroke order guides and ample space for writing practice Special practice boxes with grid lines Lots of extra practice sheets Over 500 words and phrases containing the basic characters Concise English definitions

Mandarin Chinese Characters Made Easy

Author : Michael L. Kluemper
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462917208
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Mandarin Chinese Characters Made Easy written by Michael L. Kluemper and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly-visual book introduces an effective new method for learning Chinese characters using visual stimuli and pictographs. Learning the necessary characters used to write even simple Chinese sentences can be a long and arduous process. Chinese Characters Made Easy makes the learning process fun and easy by presenting the 1,000 most common characters using a new mnemonic approach that associates each character with a memorable visual and verbal clue--making memorization easy. The character for person, for example, is superimposed over a sketch of a man representing "a person standing on two legs"—drawing the reader's attention to the distinctive shape of the character and associating the sketch with the character's meaning. The Chinese characters are presented in groups or clusters all sharing common elements and meanings, for context and ease of identification. These groups of characters all share common root symbols known as radicals or relate to a particular theme or topic such as colors, numbers, animals, or body parts. Pronunciations, meanings and vocabulary compounds are provided for each character in the group. Key features of Chinese Characters Made Easy include: An introduction to the history and structure of the Chinese writing system 1,000 characters and over 3,000 words for beginning learners of Chinese This Chinese character book's visual approach is a powerful learning tool. It can be used by serious students and is entertaining and useful to general readers who are curious about how the Chinese writing system works and how it developed.