Fundamentals of Chinese Characters

Fundamentals of Chinese Characters focuses on the connections between the shapes and meanings of basic Chinese characters, enabling students to learn to recognize and write Chinese characters before they learn to speak Chinese.

Presenting fundamental knowledge of Chinese characters according to their intrinsic regularity rather than in the sequence often used in teaching spoken Chinese, this book enables teachers to offer students a course on Chinese characters alongside a Chinese language course at the elementary level.

With interactive exercises, rhymes for all the characters covered in the book, and illustrations for all the basic characters, this book makes learning Chinese characters easy and fun.


Author: John Jing-Hua Yin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.59lbs
Size: 10.96h x 8.52w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780300109450
ISBN10: 0300109458
BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | Chinese
- Literary Criticism | Asian | General

About the Author
JOHN JING-HUA YIN is associate professor of Chinese and director of the Chinese Language Program at the University of Vermont.