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250 Essential Chinese Characters For Everyday Use: Volume 2 | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Yungkin Lee
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 427808
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0804833605
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.182421
UPC: 676251833607
EAN: 9780804833608
ASIN: 0804833605
Publication Date: June 15, 2004
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Product Description
The characters you need to complete a business transaction, find a street address, and carry out many other important day-to-day tasks are all here. All entries include readings, meanings, stroke-orders, common compounds, and different versions of the Chinese characters. Actual use of these characters is illustrated in sample materials, forms to fill out, and photos taken in public places in Chinese, where the ability to read the characters is indispensable!
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250 Essential Chinese Charaters for Everyday Use Vol. 1 December 22, 2008
Kyle Risby (Decatur, IL)
Philip Yungkin Lee has done an outstanding job of combining meaningful character contexts, exercises and review material. The book depicts both traditional Chinese characters and the simplified character set. If you have both the time and the patience, you can learn a multitude of essential characters and phrases. One thing I would suggest to Turtle Publishing, is to expand the Student's Guide section dealing with pinyin pronunciations on page xii; add pronunciations of multiple vowel combinations. Outside of this one recommendation, if you are planning a trip to China and truly want to learn how to both read and write "putonghau" Vol.1 and 2 are the books for you.
Writing Chinese characters is relaxing. October 30, 2008
Lynn A. Ellsworth (Phoenix, AZ USA)
NOTE: I bought Vol 1 and Vol 2 of these books. I am still on Vol 1 and this review is based on practicing 178 characters so far from Vol 1.
I wish my hearing was good enough to learn a second language but it isn't so the only thing I can do is learn about languages. One of my hobbies is learning other languages' sentence construction, use of phrases, alphabets, etc. Practicing writing Chinese characters and discovering how ideas are assembled with the characters is relaxing.
But I don't understand the order of characters in this book. Were they placed by amount of use or some other reason? I am up to 178 characters out of 250 in Vol 1 and I haven't understood any build up or building on past characters. Maybe I am learning something without realizing it but I wish some goal was more apparent to me.
Perhaps I lack patients as a high school graduate in China is expected to know about 10,000 characters so I have a very long way to go to even by a 1st grader:-)
 Rote Learning June 19, 2008
Lex (British Columbia, BC, Canada)
I bought volume 1 and 2 of this book when I first started learning characters and found that it just didn't work very well for me.
What I didn't like about this book:
1) It introduces characters strictly by frequency. In many cases the more complex characters are introduced without teaching the meanings of the simpler character components.
2) For characters with different simplified/traditional forms, memory hints are geared towards traditional characters with the occasional negative comments regarding the changes done in the simplification process.
3) The character compounds that are introduced with each character are often combined with characters that have not been learned yet.
What I did like about this book is:
1) The character writing/review sections
2) The large stroke order diagrams
That being said, I found that, personally, my retention using this system was poor. I stopped using it completely once I discovered Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters, also printed by Tuttle.
 For the enthusiastic beginner December 25, 2007
M. Autio (Portland, OR)
This is a great starter to transition into reading and writing Chinese. Not only does it provide character descriptions with example sentences with pinyin (phonetic) accompaniment, there are exercises throughout to test learning and to help review later on. I definitely look forward to using this book to jump start my Chinese reading and writing.
I wouldn't refer the learner of Japanese to this book, for the fact, Japanese rarely use the simplified characters in everyday writing.
Buy it if you want to learn Mandarin characters May 13, 2007
Emmett Hoops (Saranac Lake, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will give you a very good start to character literacy. It should be used in conjunction with a program that gives you practice in pronunciation. (I've not found one shoe that fits all.) I'd recommend buying this book and v.2 along with the separately published Pimsleur CD's.
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