Another great book: The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
I wish I had this book when I was a teenager! The author, James D. McCawley did a great job.
The book has both Mandarin & Cantonese pronunciation and gives the reader a good understanding of Chinese food dishes and the Chinese Menu.
You may get this book from Amazon.com
Stephen C. Callender, MT(ASCP)
www.stevebiz.com
posted by scallender @ 3:59 PM
4 Comments:
At 5:42 AM,
scallender said…
I found an interesting Chinese Teaching Program!
For students of any foreign language, reading is the key to building vocabulary, mastering idioms and nuances, and feeling at home with a foreign culture's distinctive patterns of thought and expression. Students of Chinese, however, face unique obstacles to their progress towards true literacy because of the difficulty of recognizing and learning new characters. The two integrated parts of the Clavis Sinica program are specially designed to help you overcome these obstacles and to read any Chinese text with greater pleasure and understanding.
Here is a comment from one of the users!
To: info@clavisinica.com
Subject: Re: Clavis Sinica Demo
Date: 26 May 2005
Hi David,
I purchased and have been using the program for about 5 months now and I have moved from knowing a little over 2,000 characters to consistently scoring 3,000 or more on your on-line character test. _More importantly_ I have finally moved from reading intermediate texts to on-line news I find on the WWW. Your program has turned out to be an amazing aid - I am now a huge fan.
I have a suggestion or two that would help me very much, which I assume would improve the program as well....
Finally, when will a new version come out? Will I be able to get an upgrade for reduced cost having purchased a previous version?
Thanks,
Brent Nelson
At 7:24 PM,
Stephen C. Callender, MT(ASCP) said…
The books that were used to learn Chinese are a must! If you are serious you will purchase them if you can find them. Fred Wang (Wang Fang Yu) "$5,000 Wang" has alreday died so his book "READ CHINESE" will never be revised again. I had the pleasure of knowing him and saw him demostrate Chinese Calligraphy. I called him $5,000 dollar Wang because everything he wrote sold for $5,000!
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