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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6717 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 25 of 30 07 September 2011 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I just received the Abridged Edition of Cracking the Chinese Puzzles (which is over 800 pages and certainly more than I need). I purchased it used on Amazon for $30.00 and if you have any hesitation at all about buying it, don't. I have not been able to put it down all day. Worth every penny!!
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6177 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 30 07 September 2011 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you know how many characters are in it and how they were whittled down from the other volumes?
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6717 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 27 of 30 07 September 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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The book states:
"This abridged edition explains exhaustively each of 3,650 most commonly used characters extracted from a survey of 1.4 million characters appearing in Chinese newspapers and represents 99.8% of the survey. In the unabridged edition, a further 2,238 characters were studied which are omitted in this abridged edition." Some of the 45 chapters are: Chapter One Prounucation - Chapter Two What is a Busshou? - Chapter Three Pictographs - A Bird's Eye-View of the Entire Field of Chinese Characters 1,400,000 Character Survey Everything started with Man Verbs are the Hands From Tears to Ocean 572 Modern Chinese Characters involve "Water" The Importance of a Dot etc. Lots and lots of text to read. This is not your typical character book with a simple list of characters and meanings.
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| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6177 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 28 of 30 08 September 2011 at 6:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, this sounds like a good choice since I don't plan on learning 6000 characters!
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| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6177 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 30 29 September 2011 at 10:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I just received the abridged edition from bookdepository. I think that for most people it will be a better choice than buying the five volume edition, which has a lot of extra stuff that isn't essential to learning the 3650 common characters. (Volume 5 for example just contains appendices and word lists that aren't so useful.) The abridged edition contains all the descriptions of the bushous and the 3650 characters, which are the meat and potatoes of Ann's method. And the abridged book actually contains more than the 3650 characters - some of the less common characters were included contrary to what the introduction of the book says. Edited by newyorkeric on 29 September 2011 at 10:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kealist Senior Member United States kealist.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6034 days ago 111 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Uyghur, Mandarin, Shanghainese | Message 30 of 30 12 October 2011 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I own all of these books, abridged and the 5 volume set and would second that the
abridged is good enough, although who wouldn't want to collect all of them? They are a lot of fun 1 person has voted this message useful |
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