Hanyu Pinyin is considered the most effective aid to learning Mandarin today. Using fewer letters per sound than any other system, this Romanized Chinese Phonetic System is precise, accurate and less complicated, and thus more easy to learn.

This book demonstrates the simplest way to master Pinyin, with the sounds broken down into simple vowels, compound vowels, and consonants. Witty drawings by well-known cartoonist Tan Huay Peng makes learning Pinyin easy and fun.

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SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTERS

Tiffs book outlines systematically the principles which govern the simplification of Chinese characters, and is an invaluable aid to the learning and understanding of simplified characters in contemporary usage. The book also provides the regular forms from which these simplified characters are derived.

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Radicals, or root elements, contribute vitally to meaning and to a deeper comprehension of the Chinese language. There are altogether 214 radicals on which Chinese characters are based. In these books, the more fundamental radicals are isolated for analysis and explained with carefully chosen examples.

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