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This volume offers a collection of over 1600 mnemonics that were built by Chinese native speakers (teachers and translators) in cooperation with Chinese learners. The way of making Chinese characters easy to memorize is here to divide characters into smaller components. Each of them has already a meaning of its own, so that these parts are combined into short one-phrase-stories that can be easily memorized and provide a fascinating impression of the pictorial language of Chinese characters. For more information please consult www.mandarinstrokes.com (a Stroke Order Dictionary for over 6000 Chinese simplified characters with stroke orders and interactive exercises).

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Dr. Melanie Schmidt, Fremdsprachenforscherin und Dozentin, fünf Jahre davon in China, aktuell an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, entwickelte neben wissenschaftlichen Publikationen, Online-Materialien zum Schreiberwerb chinesischer Schriftzeichen (www.mandarinstrokes.com) sowie des Chinesischen als berufsbezogener Fachfremdsprache in vier Sprachen.

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