Alison Matthews Books

This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters.

This book offers a straightforward method for learning the second set of 100 essential Chinese characters, addressing the challenges faced by beginning students in memorizing and writing them. Following the foundational concepts presented in the first volume, it focuses on characters selected for efficient learning. Each character is accompanied by its English meaning, Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation, and any alternate forms, along with a stroke order guide and designated spaces for writing practice. The stroke order guides, printed with gray guidelines, allow students to trace the standard writing sequence. Additionally, related compounds and phrases are included to enhance vocabulary acquisition. Three indexes at the back facilitate character lookup by English meanings, Hanyu Pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. The book also provides extra practice sheets with blank boxes for further writing exercises. Key features include: the second 100 most common Chinese characters, standard Hanyu Pinyin romanizations, vocabulary-building compounds and phrases, step-by-step stroke order diagrams, and special grid-lined boxes for accurate writing practice. Sample sentences further aid in vocabulary development.

This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters. All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. Intended for beginning Chinese students, this character book presents characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning. The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. Printed with gray guidelines, the stroke order guides are designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided. This Chinese character book contains: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams show you how to write each character. Special boxes with grid lines help you practice writing them correctly. Compounds and sample sentences provide easy vocabulary building. Hanyu pinyin romanizations identify and help you pronounce every word.

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