Remembering Simplified Hanzi Books 1 and 2 - James W. Heisig

Remembering Simplified Hanzi Books 1 and 2

By James W. Heisig

  • Release Date: 2016-02-10
  • Genre: Chinese Language Studies
Score: 3
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Description

At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. The ebook includes the complete course (Books 1 and 2 of the printed volume) and covers the writing and meaning of the 3,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system. The 5 comprehensive indexes are hyperlinked to the text for easy access.

Of critical importance to the approach adopted here 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.

Reviews

  • No book like this for learning Hanzi.

    2
    By baki181921
    After using it for a week I’m in love. Love the explanations, everything seems so fun and interactive. 5 stars
  • Fonts auto changed to hiragana

    3
    By Music yes
    The book seems to have an issue where the fonts of earlier chapters are being autocorrected into hiragana? I believe it has something to do with the primitive elements of the hanzi and the unrecognized characters are being substituted.

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