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.

[Highlights] Study Japanese anytime and anywhere with smartphone, tablet, etc Focused on the pronunciation of common Chinese characters, which comprise approximately 70% of Chinese characters in Japan and China Main entries are in Kana (Japanese alphabet) alphabetically for easy vocabulary search. [Who needs this book] Students, businessmen, travelers who want to increase Japanese vocabulary in short term Mandarin speakers who want to increase Japanese vocabulary themselves Anyone who want to give this book as a gift to their children, grandchildren or others This book lists approximately 5,000 core Japanese vocabulary for school, examinations, business, and travel. Main entries are in Kana (Japanese alphabet) alphabetically with Kanji (漢字). Chinese characters (both simplified and traditional fonts if applicable) and Pinyin (Romanized standard Chinese pronunciation) follow in the same line. Common Chinese character words are in blue, while certain words with same meaning but with reverse syllables are in red. In case of part of speech, most of Japanese verbs are in the form of ‘noun+‘する(suru)’ with some exceptions. [Sample] あいて 相手 / 对手 (對手) duì shǒu あいとう 哀悼 / 哀悼 āi dào あいとうする 哀悼する / 哀悼 āi dào あいぶ 愛撫 / 抚爱 (撫愛) fǔ ài あいぶする 愛撫する / 抚爱 (撫愛) fǔ ài * Please refer to the website for more information. www.corevoca.com

I love Words English - Chinese is a list of 100 Words images and their names in English and Chinese. This is the perfect book for kids who love Words. With this book children can build their Words vocabulary and start to develop word and picture association.

Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population.They use a variety of unique and fascinating writing systems: logographic Chinese characters of ancient origin, as well as phonetic systems of syllabaries and alphabets. The book describes, often in comparison with English, how the Chinese, Korean and Japanese writing systems originated and developed; how each relates to its spoken language; how it is learned or taught; how it can be computerized; and how it relates to the past and present literacy, education, and culture of its users.Intimately familiar with the three East Asian cultures, Insup Taylor with the assistance of Martin Taylor, has written an accessible and highly readable book. Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese is intended for academic readers (students in East Asian Studies, linguistics, education, psychology) as well as for the general public (parents, business, government). Readers of the book will learn about the interrelated cultural histories of China, Korea and Japan, but mainly about the various writing systems, some exotic, some familar, some simple, some complex, but all fascinating.