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Book Learn Chinese Visually 9  Unique Ways to Spell Chinese Words

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 9 Unique Ways to Spell Chinese Words written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The ninth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing Learn how to 'spell' Chinese characters with unqiue 'spelling', that is the parts (alphabets and strokes) are combined in a special way not seen in other words. See the parts of Chinese words through COLOURS. Note that Chinese characters are usually learnt as a whole and this can take up a lot of memory. As a result, the more one learns the more confused one gets. This new way to learn Chinese visually helps learners to decode Chinese characters into their componentsand learn how to form/spell characters through simple rules. To ‘spell’ is to write or name the parts (alphabets or strokes) that form a word in the correct sequence. Learn how to form Chinese characters easily using simple rules, bond points and cross points Apply content learned in Book 1 (Strokes), Books 4 and 5 (Alphabets) in Books 7, 8 and 9 (Spelling Chinese Words) LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 8  More Ways to Spell Chinese Words

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 8 More Ways to Spell Chinese Words written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The eighth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing Learn how to 'spell' Chinese characters easily by seeing where the PARTS (alphabets and strokes) INTERSECT See the parts of Chinese words through COLOURS. Note that Chinese characters are usually learnt as a whole and this can take up a lot of memory. As a result, the more one learns the more confused one gets. This new way to learn Chinese visually helps learners to decode Chinese characters into their componentsand learn how to form/spell characters through simple rules. To ‘spell’ is to write or name the parts (alphabets or strokes) that form a word in the correct sequence. Learn how to form Chinese characters easily using simple rules, bond points and cross points Apply content learned in Book 1 (Strokes), Books 4 and 5 (Alphabets) in Books 7, 8 and 9 (Spelling Chinese Words) LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 7  How to Spell Chinese Words

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 7 How to Spell Chinese Words written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The seventh book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing Learn how to 'spell' Chinese characters easily using PART ORDER RULES See the basic structures of Chinese words through COLOURS. Note that Chinese characters are usually learnt as a whole and this can take up a lot of memory. As a result, the more one learns the more confused one gets. This new way to learn Chinese visually helps learners to decode Chinese characters into their componentsand learn how to form/spell characters through simple rules. To ‘spell’ is to write or name the parts (alphabets or strokes) that form a word in the correct sequence. Learn how to form Chinese characters easily using Part Order Rules (e.g. Left to Right, Top to Bottom, Middle before Sides, Sides before Middle, Outside before Inside, Inside before Outside) Apply content learned in Book 1 (Strokes), Books 4 and 5 (Alphabets) in Books 7, 8 and 9 (Spelling Chinese Words) LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 9

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 9 written by W. Q. Blosh and published by Qblosh. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Chinese words can be 'spelled' using simple rules but some Chinese words have unique 'spelling', that is the parts (alphabets and strokes) are combined in a special way not seen in other words. See the Part Order of Chinese words through COLOURS This new way to learn Chinese visually helps learners to decode and form Chinese words easily

Book Learn Chinese Visually 10  How to Guess the Meaning of Chinese Words

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 10 How to Guess the Meaning of Chinese Words written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The tenth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing Chinese words that share common parts may be related in their meanings (e.g. many animal names share the same part). The common part they share is called ‘RADICAL’. This is an introduction to 39 FREQUENTLY-USED RADICALS. Learn to ‘guess’ the meaning of words with these radicals See the part order of Chinese words through COLOURS. LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 5  More Chinese Alphabets

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 5 More Chinese Alphabets written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The fourth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing. Covers the the basic blocks of Chinese characters - More than 100 Variations and Exceptions of the basic Chinese Alphabets. They share the same stroke patterns as the basic Chinese Alphabets but look a bit different The alphabets are presented as cartoons and have easy-to-remember names (e.g. T-Shape, Half Ladder, Split) to describe their appearance No writing, just trace the strokes from head to tail with your finger according to the colour code to learn the order the strokes have to be written LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 6  My First Words

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 6 My First Words written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The sixth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing Learn Chinese Alphabets that are also Chinese characters (that is they have meanings and sounds) Note most Chinese Alphabets are NOT Chinese characters by themselves. They have to combine with other Chinese Alphabets or strokes to form characters. These simple characters have a minimum of 2 strokes and a maximum of 6 strokes. Their meanings can be easily understood from the pictures shown. They are often the First Words introduced to learners. No writing, just trace the strokes from head to tail with your finger according to the colour code to learn the order the strokes have to be written. LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 4  32 Teams of Chinese Alphabets

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 4 32 Teams of Chinese Alphabets written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The fourth book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing. Covers the the basic blocks of Chinese characters - More than 100 basic Chinese Alphabets arranged into 32 teams The alphabets are presented as cartoons and have easy-to-remember names (e.g. T-Shape, Half Ladder, Split) to describe their appearance No writing, just trace the strokes from head to tail with your finger according to the colour code to learn the order the strokes have to be written. LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 3  Meet the Chinese Alphabets

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 3 Meet the Chinese Alphabets written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. Also suitable for adults young at heart! Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The third book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing. Covers the the basic blocks of Chinese characters - Start with 32 Chinese Alphabets to help you familiarise with their names The alphabets are presented as cartoons and have easy-to-remember names (e.g. T-Shape, Half Ladder, Split) to describe their appearance No writing, just trace the strokes from head to tail with your finger according to the colour code to learn the order the strokes have to be written. LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS

Book Learn Chinese Visually 1  Meet the Strokes in Chinese Characters

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 1 Meet the Strokes in Chinese Characters written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way to Learn Chinese VISUALLY! -Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. -Also suitable for adults young at heart! -Explained in English so parents who do not speak Mandarin can also guide their children. The first book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing. Covers the most basic parts of Chinese characters - 35 STROKES. The strokes are presented as cartoons and have easy-to-remember names (e.g. Vertical, L-Bend, Hunchback) according to the features they have (e.g. hook, bend, curve) No writing, just trace the strokes from head to tail with your finger to learn the stroke direction.

Book Learn Chinese Visually 8

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 8 written by W. Q. Blosh and published by Qblosh. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn more ways to 'spell' Chinese characters with INTERSECTING PARTS See where the parts intersect with one another This new way to learn Chinese visually helps learners to decode Chinese characters into their components and learn how to form/spell characters

Book Learn Chinese Visually 7

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 7 written by W. Q. Blosh and published by Qblosh. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Chinese words be spelled? Learn how to 'spell' Chinese characters easily using PART ORDER RULES See the basic structures of Chinese words through COLOURS Learn easily by TRACING the strokes with your finger

Book Learn Chinese Visually 2  Count in Chinese and English

Download or read book Learn Chinese Visually 2 Count in Chinese and English written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BILINGUAL BOOK - Learn to count in Chinese and English. Learn to write Chinese characters of numbers 1 to 10 by tracing Learn how numbers 11 to 20 are written in Chinese Learn to spell numbers 1 to 20 in English Created for toddlers, students learning Chinese as a second or foreign language. The second book in the Foundation Series, developed to help learners develop visual skills to decode Chinese characters without writing. LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS

Book Remembering the Kanji 2

Download or read book Remembering the Kanji 2 written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work provides students with helpful tools for learning the pronunciation of the kanji. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Many of the “primitive elements,” or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the “Chinese reading” that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a “signal primitive,” one can learn the entire group at the same time. In this way, Remembering the Kanji 2 lays out the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning readings, that might otherwise appear completely random, in an efficient and rational way. Individual frames cross-reference the kanji to alternate readings and to the frame in volume 1 in which the meaning and writing of the kanji was first introduced. A parallel system of pronouncing the kanji, their “Japanese readings,” uses native Japanese words assigned to particular Chinese characters. Although these are more easily learned because of the association of the meaning to a single word, the author creates a kind of phonetic alphabet of single syllable words, each connected to a simple Japanese word, and shows how they can be combined to help memorize particularly troublesome vocabulary. The 4th edition has been updated to include the 196 new kanji approved by the government in 2010 as “general-use” kanji.

Book Get Ready For School Chinese Writing Workbook 1

Download or read book Get Ready For School Chinese Writing Workbook 1 written by W.Q. Blosh and published by qBLOSH. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much time does a learner need to spend learning to write Chinese characters? Do you need to write every Chinese character that you learn? How many times do you need to write a Chinese character? Is it effective to write a full page of the same Chinese character repeatedly? How to remember all the strokes in a Chinese character easily? Your child will be able to Identify the PARTS (strokes and Chinese Alphabets) in Chinese characters. This will help to build a strong foundation for higher learning Learn in MULTIPLE WAYS - tracing, colouring, writing, visualising (or choose one way that suits your child) Understand the MEANING of the Chinese characters through PICTURES. (Pronunciation and English meaning included) Develop hand dexterity to write big and small characters (or focus on big characters first and finish the small characters later) CONTENT OF GET READY FOR SCHOOL CHINESE WORKBOOK 1 (EASY) 47 Chinese characters NOT more than 6 strokes (with 1 to 3 parts) Pictures for colouring Activities to recall characters learnt Blank handwriting papers METHODOLOGY Many learners dread Chinese writing drills - repeating pages and pages of the same Chinese characters. Writing can be fun if done moderately and in varied ways. Your child will be engaged because we Limit writing exercises to about 10 repetitions per character Create varied activities (e.g. varying word sizes, alternating between similar-looking characters, creating tracing and colouring options) Present strokes in cartoons with easy-to-remember names Provide more than one way to learn - trace, colour, write, visualise If your purpose is to develop the ability to RECALL the Chinese characters you learn, writing the characters is only one way to register them in your mind. More importantly, you need to be able to VISUALISE it, that is able to see the components in the character, how they are combined and the order they are combined. In our books, we teach Chinese characters broken down into PARTS (not strokes only). A part can be a stroke or a Chinese Alphabet. A Chinese Alphabet is a repetitive component that is made up of 2 to 6 strokes. Learning Chinese Alphabets before learning Chinese characters helps to reduce memory work - don’t remember a character by disintegrated strokes, remember it by PARTS (strokes and alphabets) and do it systematically. VISUALISE CHINESE CHARACTERS Look out for the “LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (1 to 10)” series of books to help children visualise strokes, Chinese Alphabets and characters in COLOURS! LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES) BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS FREE eBOOK In view of the Covid-19 situation when many children have to stay home to study, we decided to make the e-version of Workbook 1 FREE for parents to download and print for their children to practise. Purchase Physical Copy If you think that a physical copy is easier to use and keep for future reference, you are welcome to purchase a copy online. More Chinese handwriting books: You may also be interested in Workbooks 2 and 3 covering more complex characters. Get Ready for School Chinese Writing Workbooks 2: 50 Animal Names in Chinese Chinese Writing and Activity Book on Halloween Masquerade Characters

Book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1

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.

Book Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters

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.