The First 100 Chinese Characters: Traditional Character Edition: The Quick and Easy Way to Learn the Basic Chinese Characters

by Laurence Matthews, Alison Matthews

This book is a quick and easy way to learn basic Chinese Characters.

All beginning Chinese language learners struggle to memorize and learn to write Chinese characters. The First 100 Chinese Characters adopts a structural approach which helps students to quickly master the basic characters that are fundamental to this language. This character book is intended for beginning Chinese students and features characters that have been carefully selected for rapid and effective learning.

The English meanings, pronunciations in hanyu pinyin and alternate forms (if any) for each Chinese character are presented along with a stroke order guide and spaces for writing practice. The stroke order guides are printed with gray guidelines, designed to be traced over to teach students the standard sequence of strokes used to write the character. Related compounds and phrases are given to assist in vocabulary building. Three indexes at the back allow the characters to be looked up by their English meanings, hanyu pinyin pronunciations, or radicals. Extra practice sheets are also provided.

This Chinese character book contains:

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2007

About the author

Laurence Matthews has worked as an aviation consultant in Asia, including both China and Japan, and is the author of the Kanji Fast Finder and Chinese Character Fast Finder books. He has wide experience of organizing and presenting complex information to a variety of audiences.

This page is hosted jointly with Alison Matthews, Laurence's co-author on several books including 'Learning Chinese Characters' and the forthcoming 'Framespotting'.

Reviews

[Natascha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Makes me happy to spot those characters I've learnt on the Internet or a newspaper. Only 2400 characters to go.

[Sir He-Man · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great and easy to use guide on beginning Chinese. I had some prior experience with the language in a course, so I knew about romanization pronunciation already. But be warned, this is a primer for the written language, how to write the characters, the radical strokes, how they mix to make compounds, and does a great job of it. Pronunciation and grammar are not covered in any great detail, but the workbook is really well thought out.

[Jodyburford · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is great, has many common characters. The only problem for me is that it uses traditional characters which are not necessary for me to use and are more complicated then the simplified characters.

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[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

My writing really improved, and so did my comprehension. Such a useful book!