Enjoy Learning Chinese Characters: Discover their Hidden Meanings - Softcover

Kun Ho Park; Kyung Yong Kong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8997134094 ISBN 13: 9788997134090

Publisher: Kong & Park USA, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

FUN AND EASY WAY TO WRITE CHINESE! Learn Chinese characters with pictograms of 250 well-known root characters added to 3000 other characters.
-856 most frequently-encountered characters in Chinese
-Vocabulary
-Color coding system
-Full color illustrations
-Character stroke order
-Definitions
-Hanyu pinyin Romanization
-Compatible with levels 1-3 of the Chinese language proficiency test (HSK) standard.

About this title

About the Author:

Kun Ho Park
The co-author of this book PARK, Kun-Ho, is a professional who was born in Korea but studied in Japan. When he returned to Korea, he worked as a resident employee for a Japanese company, and began teaching. He taught Japanese to the executives of conglomerates, and has authored various Japanese textbooks. He experienced his students having difficulties in learning Chinese characters (kanji), and researched how to learn Chinese characters easily. He patented his Chinese character learning text in 2013, in which he described the creation principles of Chinese characters in a chart. He wrote over 30 books in Chinese characters, including Bunhaejoripsik Hanja (Disassembly and Assembly of Chinese Characters) and Funfun Hanja (Fun Fun Chinese Characters).

Kyung Yong Kong
The co-author of this book is KONG, Kyung-Yong. Although he was born in Korea, he is the 78th descendent of Confucius, and due to his family, he was familiar with Chinese characters since youth. He was a bookworm who perused over the Britannica Encyclopedia when he was just a boy. He conceived of writing a book with the idea that Chinese characters with form and sound can be easily learned if meanings are given to the sounds. His experience reading encyclopedias and countless books helped him assign scientific or social meanings to the sounds. He is a professional publisher active in the publication field, participating in diverse activities such as writing, editing, and consulting governmental agencies or universities.

Review:

The authors of this book have conducted extensive research on Chinese lexicology, etymology, phonology and grammar, and now share their expertise with Chinese language learners. Learning Chinese characters takes more time and effort for those whose native language uses alphabetic writing systems. The authors solved this problem by reinterpreting some of Chinese characters in their own imaginative ways. This extends readers horizons and helps them to make sense of the structures of Chinese characters through the use of interesting stories and fascinating cartoons.
The characters in this book are organized around topics such as people, life, nature, etc. for the sake of easy recollection. The book helps learners to build their Chinese character and vocabulary base by grouping relevant characters and their associated words and phrases in a family in a systematic way. This book is an indispensable aid for people who want to master basic and commonly used Chinese characters and vocabulary within a short time. It is also a very useful reference book for Chinese language teachers. --Yong Jiang, Professor of Linguistics, Fudan University (Shanghai)

About this edition

• Publisher: Kong & Park USA, Inc.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8997134094
• ISBN 13: 9788997134090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544