This set of courses is specially designed with brand-new approaches for foreign students beginning to learn Chinese. Independent from one another yet integrated into a whole, there are three courses in this set: Intensive Spoken Chinese, The Most Common Chinese Radicals, and Rapid Literacy in Chinese.
The concentrated training in character learning will enable the student to enter into the reading stage in an unprecedented short time and taste the satisfaction and enjoyment of fluent comprehension.
This book is the second of a 3-book series created at the Beijing Language and Culture University to teach Chinese to adult foreigners. Unlike the approaches which attempt to teach both spoken and written Chinese simultaneously, which works well for languages with a phonetic written structure but not well for Chinese, this series teaches Chinese grammar and word forms and the most common spoken dialects first , while leaving the separable task of learning to read and write the non-phonetic Chinese characters for later.
The second book in this series, The Most Common Chinese Radicals (Chinese Edition), teaches the basics of writing Chinese - the order and direction of writing strokes is critical and fundamental - and over 100 of the most common radicals (consitutent graphic substructures) of Chinese characters. This subject can be studied at the same time as the spoken language (the focus of the book being reviewed) or as a second phase of study.
