Remember Simplified Hanzi deals with the Chinese characters used in Mainland China while Remember Traditional Hanzi is concerned with the ancient characters still used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.Įven if they are quite similar, in the sequel I will refer to Remember Simplified Hanzi, the one I read. But is not magic neither! Remember the Hanzi: what is it?įirst at all, there are two versions of the book. “Remember the Hanzi is useless!” they scream with absolute certainty. They follow the book’s instructions for a while but, after they arrive to page eighty nine and are still unable to order a coffee without sugar at the bar, they start to blame Heisig. I think this is the reason why this book is so controversial: many people buy Remember the Hanzi for the wrong reasons, that is they believe Heisig’s system is a shortcut to learn Mandarin.
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Or you want to learn how to speak Mandarin as quickly and painlessly as possible?īecause if your answer to the last question is “yes,” I’m afraid Remember the Hanzi is going to disappoint you. You want be the master of Chinese characters? Cool! Go for this book right now. The problem is to understand what you really want. I only went through the first one hundred pages (you will discover later why I didn’t finish it).Īnd I believe the book delivers what it promises. The aim of this course is to help you teach yourself, as quickly and efficiently as possible, the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most commonly used Chinese characters. Richardson starts with the following sentence: The introduction of Remember Simplified Hanzi by J. This post is a review of the method invented by James Heisig, the master of Kanji (the alphabet that Japanese people borrowed from China) and Hanzi, that is the Chinese characters. Click here to discover what Chinese courses
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