Chinese Breakthrough (English Annotation Edition) (2 Volumes)

Author: Zhou Jian
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The purpose of this book is to systematically introduce the internal rules and knowledge of Chinese characters to foreign learners, cultivating their ability to learn Chinese characters. It starts with the basic knowledge of strokes, stroke order rules, components, radicals, and semantic radicals. It then introduces the three main methods of character formation: pictographic characters, ideographic characters, and phono-semantic characters. For the dominant phono-semantic characters, it further deepens learners' understanding of the phonetic and semantic structures of Chinese characters through the study of numerous typical radical characters, homologous radical characters, and homologous phonetic characters, thereby cultivating students' "character sense" and their ability to learn Chinese characters efficiently. The book consists of 61 lessons, introducing 1,063 character entries, covering all 800 level-A characters from the "Outline of Chinese Language Proficiency Vocabulary and Characters," along with over 2,000 words, over 800 sentences, and 61 character knowledge points. Learners can achieve the goal of learning Chinese characters and mastering the Chinese language through interactive learning of characters, words, and sentences. In addition to the lessons, there is a (companion workbook) that provides diverse, rich, unique, and engaging Chinese character exercises.