The First 100 Chinese Characters:
Simplified Character Edition: The
Quick and Easy Method to Learn the
100 Most Basic Chinese Characters
(Tuttle Language Library) by Alison
Matthews
Really Useful
The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to
learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This
book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial
difficulty and quickly master the basic Chinese characters fundamental to
this language. Intended for beginning students, The First 100 Chinese
Characters: Simplified Character Edition contains carefully selected and
sequenced characters for rapid and effective learning. Each Chinese

character is shown separately on a single page, along with its English
definitions, hanyu pinyin romanization, alternate form, a stroke-order guide
and ample writing space.
Two indexes—alphabetical by the English meanings and by pinyin
romanization—are provided at the back of each book for quick and easy
reference, along with extra sheets of blank boxes for writing practice.
Personal Review: The First 100 Chinese Characters: Simplified
Character Edition: The Quick and Easy Method to Learn the 100
Most Basic Chinese Characters (Tuttle Language Library) by
Alison Matthews
This book is most useful for students with no exposure to the Chinese
writing system. After a clear and thorough introduction to the history and
development of Chinese characters, students are introduced to 100 basic
characters - a nice attainable number for the first year of high school
instruction or the first semester at the university level. Each entry includes
several example compounds (very important for Chinese, in which
disparate characters can be combined discretely to form unexpected
words) as well as nice, large boxes for practicing. While the Matthews
have made a nice introduction to Chinese characters, more serious
students of the language will outgrow it quite quickly. Their newer book
Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: A Revolutionary New Way
to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters provides
several hundred more characters (without the practice space) for the more
ambitious.
Nathan Dummitt
author of Chinese Through Tone & Color
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