Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters | 
|  | | | Title: | Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters | | Author: | Alison Matthews
Laurence Matthews | | Publisher: | Tuttle Publishing | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 15 August, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 080483816X / 9780804838160 | | List Price: | $29.95 | | You Save: | $10.18 | | Amazon Price: | $19.77 | |
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Product Description
Aimed at helping students of Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters, including the pronunciation of characters, fast and effectively, Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1 is a systematic study aid to this difficult language.
Designed specifically to ease students into the daunting process of learning Chinese characters, Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1 incorporates the key principle of visual imagery. A book for serious learners of Chinese, it can be used alongside (or after, or even before) a course in the Chinese language. Concise, clear and appealing, this practical guide is well designed and includes an easy-to-use index.
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Customer Reviews:
• Very Good Additional Material 07 November, 2008
This is an excellent example of support material to master Chinese writing and reading step by step. For me personally drawings coming with the characters in the beginning of each chapter are very helpful. The reason to give 4 starts is that I'd wish more context examples (which are no less important for keeping the character in one's memory) and strokes direction indicated. As I use Geneology of Chinese Characters and Tuttle's First / Second 100 Chinese characters these shortcomings are fully compensated for.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3U15H7P8PUAJY
• Makes It Easy 06 September, 2008
When you start the book, it doesn't seem like it is going to work. But it does somehow, and it is a rather fun read. I can picture myself going through all 800 characters (I'm in the 50's now) in slow but steady fashion, reviewing them at lunch each day.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2SIK2WITT2LGU
• Best Book To Learn Chinese Characters 29 September, 2008
I have tried many books, audios, dvds and I found this book extremely clever - it presents the information in a clear manner and attached each symbol to a story; it is really easy to memorize characters following this book, Highly reccomend it as well as "A chinese character a day" (pad) -by Philip Yungkin Lee - also check out www.chinesepod.com great stuff.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1DU965E08T3SX
• Great For Learning Chinese With Minimal Knowledge Of The Language 09 September, 2008
I have purchase many publications and some av materials intended to RE-learn Chinese. Heller's approach is the effective and easy to follow.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1BU11P1WXCM98
• Great 07 September, 2008
I agree with the other glowing reviews. One of the hard things about Mandarin is remembering the tone of the words. There are four tones - high, rising, falling/rising, and falling. The characters are either building block characters or formed out of two (and rarely three) building block. E.g., the character for good is comprised of the symbol for woman and child and it has a falling/rising tone.
The book has a "dorky" story about each character that help you remember the constituent building blocks which has one of 4 prototype characters woven into the story depending on the tone. Thus, if I am trying to remember the character for lamp, there is story about a giant (which signifies first tone) and fire and nail (the two constituent buiding blocks) plus a sound word which helps to jog the memory.
As someone who went through medical school, I appreciate good mnemonics. This is an excellent book. If you want to learn the hanzi (Chinese characters), just get this book! It teaches the 800 most common characters. But also, it teaches a method to learn even more. When I see a character now, I start making up my own stories following the pattern of the book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1OT92YV9VK12W
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