WRITING

ZIXUE HANZI: WRITE CHINESE!

George C.C. Chao, Fangpei Cai and Allen Singleton

This CDROM for the Mac provides a whole range of exercises designed to help you learn the 300 most common characters. You can learn how to write the character, learn what it means, its part of speech, see how it is written stroke by stroke, learn the romanization (pinyin or Yale), learn related phrases, hear it pronounced and even record your own pronunciation. It's really all you need.

Requires Apple Mac or Power Mac, system 6.8 or higher, CDROM drive, Microphone for recording.

One CDROM $29.95

HANDWRITING IN CHINESE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE CURSIVE SCRIPT*
Fred Fangyu Wang
This is an introduction to learning the techniques of handwriting in Chinese. The first 300 characters of READ CHINESE BOOK ONE, are here practiced in their handwritten (rather than printed) form. They are presented systematically so that the student may apply the principles to other characters. Stroke formation, stroke order are all combined with reading materials.
ISBN 0-88710-033-3
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PRACTICE SHEETS FOR Beginning Chinese Reader
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Organizes and simplifies the study of written Chinese. Presents the 2000 most common characters, with definitions and instructions for writing.
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PRACTICAL CHINESE RHETORIC (Nanhai)
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Compiled by teachers from the US and China, this texts focuses on the six points of grammar most frequently misused by learners of Chinese.
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Johan Bjorksten
Highly informative, self instructional tool for students of Chinese which provides guidance in the fundamentals of writing characters, the various scripts, their evolution, etc.
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