OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6849 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French
| Message 1 of 15 24 October 2008 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
Finally, Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi and Remembering Traditional Hanzi have been finished and are ready to be ordered. I just ordered my copy.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 2 of 15 25 October 2008 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
I still prefer "Learning Chinese Characters"... same method, better adaptation to Chinese.
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OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6849 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French
| Message 3 of 15 25 October 2008 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
I wouldn't say it's the same method, or necessarily a "better adaptation to Chinese." That would be a matter of personal preference. Plus, the 800 characters the book teaches is hardly enough for a good foundation. I've emailed the publisher asking if and when a second book will be released and got no reply. Considering that we know Heisig will be releasing Vol. 2 (for a total of 3000 characters), and the massive number of success stories out there with "Remembering the Kanji," I'd prefer to learn using Heisig's book.
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BGreco Senior Member Joined 6392 days ago 211 posts - 222 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish
| Message 4 of 15 25 October 2008 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
I also think that the methods are for different purposes. For me, I am not starting to learn the actual language until I start college next year, so I'm going to work through Heisig's book while perfecting my pronunciation. With the Tuttle book, I would be forced to learn the pronunciations immediately, and early production=more, harder to correct mistakes.
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Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6537 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 5 of 15 14 November 2008 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
Anyone notice that "Remember the Hanzi" isn't on amazon? What could be the hold up? Being a prime member(free shipping), I like to order my books from amazon.
Can anyone tell me if "Remember the Hanzi" references the characters taught in the HSK levels? This referencing of characters for the HSK levels is probably the only good thing about "Learning Chinese Characters" by Matthews.
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BGreco Senior Member Joined 6392 days ago 211 posts - 222 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish
| Message 6 of 15 14 November 2008 at 2:55pm | IP Logged |
It's up there now, but "temporarily out of stock." I would expect it to be available in a couple days.
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Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6537 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 7 of 15 30 November 2008 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
I received an email a while back saying the book won't ship until after the 25th of next month.
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OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6849 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French
| Message 8 of 15 03 December 2008 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
Kugel wrote:
I received an email a while back saying the book won't ship until after the 25th of next month. |
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Funny, I have it sitting right next to me.
I ordered it straight from University of Hawaii Press the day I made this post. It arrived in 3 days if I remember right.
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