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| eoinda Tetraglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5954 days ago 101 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 1 of 6 07 December 2008 at 9:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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I need a good book for learning mandarin characters.
I intend to learn both simplified and traditional characters but I think I'll start of with simplified. The book would have to be in swedish or English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5983 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 6 07 December 2008 at 10:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Start with Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1. It will give you around 800 characters and helpful hints to remember the characters and the stroke order.
Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition by William McNaughton is a more complete book with around 2200 characters. You should complete the Tuttle book first before moving on to this one. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| AlexL Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7090 days ago 197 posts - 277 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 6 07 December 2008 at 10:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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Rapid Literacy In Chinese is good after you know the basics of how to write characters (stroke order, some radicals, etc.)
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6915 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 6 07 December 2008 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You can probably get "Lär dig skriva kinesiska tecken" (Johan Björkstén) from your local library or from a bookstore, such as AdLibris:
AdLibris Do you have any other study material for Chinese? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6856 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 5 of 6 07 December 2008 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
Why is this? The McNaughton book starts off at a very basic level. There would be a ton of overlap between the two, so it would be pointless to do both. Either way, this won't get you to literacy. That's ok, because the books aren't meant to. They're just supposed to teach you single characters (and some possible combinations). Just keep in mind that knowing the characters is not enough to be able to read. Most words are made from multiple characters. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5983 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 6 08 December 2008 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
The Tuttle book seems more user-friendly for the complete beginner. The McNaughton book is still a very good book for the complete beginner but the Tuttle book takes the novice learner through baby steps with each character. I don't see anything wrong with using both books. There will be some overlap but I don't think that's a bad thing, it's just more reinforcement for the learner. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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