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.

Download or read book Radical Mandarin written by Escott Reid and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1 written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. 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. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.

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.

Download or read book A Mandarin primer written by Frederick William Baller and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Incredible Mandarin written by Shu-Fen Chen and published by Sanctum Books. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incredible Mandarin: Basic Course (Book 1)

Download or read book Mandarin Primer written by Frederick William Baller and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comprehensive 219 Chinese Radicals the Gene of Chinese Culture written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 300 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. Comprehensive 219 Chinese Radicals, the Gene of Chinese Culture! -Decipher Chinese Characters, Expanding Vocabulary in an Amazing way! 辨析部首，解密汉字基因，扩大识字率. The book give a quick revision for your coming exam! Thanks for your support for us creating better contents for you! It takes our years’ painful effort to edit. Grab it!

Download or read book A Chinese and English Dictionary Arranged According to Radicals and Sub radicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Escott Reid written by Stéphane Roussel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Granatstein introduces Reid and the forces that shaped his progressive idealism in the 1920s and 1930s. Hector Mackenzie assesses Reid's contribution to the creation of the United Nations in the mid-1940s, while David Haglund and Stephane Roussel examine Reid's crucial role in the negotiations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greg Donaghy, Bruce Muirhead, and Alyson King write, respectively, about Reid as high commissioner to India, as an important influence on World Bank policy in the early 1960s, and, finally, as founding principal of York University's Glendon College.

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

Download or read book The 100 Chinese Radicals Roots You Must Know written by DAVID YAO and published by Legoo Mandarin. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Characters are the basic carriers of Chinese culture and as an important tool for extending, spreading and exchanging idea. Chinese Characters contain information and will never be replaced by Alphabet. Chinese Characters present a daunting challenge to foreigner as well as native Chinese. But good news, we have some secrets for you to study Chinese in a smarter way: Even there is no alphabet but have Component Part (Radicals) in Chinese. The Most Common 20 Chinese Radicals which account 51% of total Chinese Characters And the most 900 Characters cover 90% of daily usage in Chinese Newspaper, daily conversation… GOOD news for you?! Take our course to find more.

Download or read book A Course of Mandarin Lessons Based on Idiom written by Calvin Wilson Mateer and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of Mandarin written by Jeroen Wiedenhof and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough account of Mandarin speech sounds. Nine core chapters explore syntactic, morphological and lexical dimensions. A final chapter traces the Chinese character script from oracle-bone inscriptions to today’s digital pens. This work will cater to language learners and linguistic specialists alike. Easy reference is provided by more than eighty tables, figures, appendices, and a glossary. The main text is enriched by sections in finer print, offering further analysis and reflection. Example sentences are fully glossed, translated, and explained from diverse angles, with a keen eye for recent linguistic change. This grammar, in short, reveals a Mandarin language in full swing.

Download or read book Modern Mandarin Chinese written by Claudia Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language, it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use, and structures, while placing a strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills. Each level of the course consists of a textbook and workbook in simplified Chinese. A free companion website provides all the audio for the course with a broad range of interactive exercises and additional resources for students’ self-study, along with a comprehensive instructor’s guide with teaching tips, assessment and homework material, and a full answer key. Key changes to this new edition: An increased number of vocabulary and characters introduced. 255 characters are introduced in this second edition for active production. Dialogues and example sentences are also presented in full-character format for passive recognition, and to provide additional challenge for more advanced students. Additional exercises in the workbooks and online to support the expanded number of words and characters incorporated into the textbooks. New cross-references between the textbooks, workbooks, and companion website facilitate using all the resources in an integrated manner. Greatly enhanced and re-designed website. Retaining its focus on communicative skills and the long-term retention of characters, the text is now presented in simplified characters and pinyin from the outset with a gradual and phased removal of pinyin as specific characters are introduced and learnt. This unique approach allows students to benefit from the support of pinyin in the initial stages as they begin speaking while ensuring they are guided and supported towards reading only in characters.