PDF Learn Chinese Characters: Easy Mnemonics to Memorize Hanzi Download
- Author: L. Castelluzzo
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- ISBN: 9781095659601
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- Languages : en
- Pages : 337
This book is intended to serve as a helpful and practical tool which will assist the reader in their efforts to memorize and understand the most common Chinese characters. It provides visual descriptions which encourage the reader to see images in the characters, and to associate those images with a translation that can be more easily memorized.As any student of the Chinese language knows, many characters contain phonetic radicals which are not associated with the definition of the character. The purpose of this book is to confront this problem head-on, by re-connecting the phonetic radicals to a visual concept, and providing a unique mnemonic phrase that will help the reader to remember the definition of the character.It is strongly recommended that the reader becomes very familiar with the short-list of 50 key radicals before moving on to the characters. After the characters, there is a list of vocabulary that uses combinations of the characters to form everyday words.Please note that this book is only intended to serve as a memory aide, and it is not intended to teach the actual history or etymology of the Chinese language, nor is it intended to be a definitive guide to the official radical of each character. Also, radicals and characters often have multiple definitions, and so in order to simplify the memorization process as much as possible, a significant effort has been devoted to selecting the most all-encompassing translation as possible.In order to maximize the efficiency of learning, this book uses 50 of the most common radicals to cover 400 of the most common characters, which when combined with each other, will provide a total vocabulary of approximately 1000 words.This book is organized into three sections: Radicals, Characters, Vocabulary. For each section, there are practice questions that test the reader's ability to translate: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Chinese to PinYin, PinYin to English, English To PinYin, and PinYin to Chinese. Solutions are provided for all of these questions, so that the student can independently review their own work and assess their progress.