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| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5958 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes  Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 7 09 February 2013 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
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Heads up....the publishers' site for these books is not selling the first volume and the second is on sale. It looks like the Heisig traditional character books are being discontinued. The first volume seems to have been unavailable for the past few months.
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| Sizen Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4338 days ago 165 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Catalan, Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian, German | Message 2 of 7 09 February 2013 at 6:28am | IP Logged |
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I ran into this problem when I decided to run through RTH a few days ago. I was a bit
annoyed that I couldn't find the book cheap, so I looked around and found that instead of buying the first book for $200+ on amazon, I could just use the reviewing the hanzi website since I had already learned how to make Kanji mnemonics through RTK. The site doesn't have any of the radicals/primitives or their names, nor the pre-made stories for the first 250 characters, but there are community created stories, the characters listed in order, plus a built in SRS. If not, people could just reuse RTK. A lot of the first 200 or so Kanji are the same as the first 200 Hanzi, so you could learn how to make mnemonics that way. Then it's not like you really need the book for the rest. The list provided on reviewing the hanzi works fine. Anyway, this is just my bargain workaround. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5958 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 7 09 February 2013 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
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Ah. I was asked to get both volumes for traditional characters as part of SinoSpoon. I already had the first volume in simplified and so used that. For any traditional characters, I looked up the etymology in YellowBridge and then made up a story. I have the second volume for traditional characters. Edited by Snowflake on 09 February 2013 at 8:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5958 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 7 10 February 2013 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
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Forgot to mention that the order of the characters is different in the simplified and traditional versions. I used an index of the RTH traditional characters to study them in the intended order. Using the index also allowed me to consistently work with numbers in Chinese.
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| flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6355 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian | Message 5 of 7 20 February 2013 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
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A reply From UHPBooks regarding my query about The Traditional Hanzi Part 1:
"We will be reprinting that title and reprints should be in hopefully by the end of March." 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5272 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 6 of 7 24 February 2013 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
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In the meantime, there is a free sample of the first 61 pages, covering the stories for the first 102 characters. (This seems to be hosted by the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, where James Heisig is based, so it is probably legit.) Edited by palfrey on 24 February 2013 at 3:40am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5272 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 7 of 7 23 April 2013 at 3:31am | IP Logged |
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The book appears to be back in print now, and is available, for example, from Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Traditional-Hanzi-Meaning- Characters/dp/0824833244/ New copies, at reasonable prices, are also available from several independent booksellers listed by Amazon, as well as on ebay. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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