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Recommendations... Chinese Characters
by L. Wieger
A series of etymological lessons classifies 2,300 Chinese characters, noting their modern and archaic forms, pronunciation, origin, semantic content, and variants, plus quotations of classical usage. Includes several lexicons and other supplements.
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| |  Listen & Learn Mandarin Chinese: CD EDITION
by Dover
This series utilizes the phrase method advocated by most language authorities as the fastest and most efficient approach. Featuring two CDs and a manual, each set contains 90 minutes of speech.
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 Modern Chinese: A Basic Course
by Peking University
This thorough textbook covers phonetics, vocabulary, and a practical analytical grammar. Graded lessons offer both characters and phonetic transcriptions, reading exercises, and practice in translation and writing.
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| |  Chinese Characters: Their Art and Wisdom
by Rose Quong
This remarkable guide makes a difficult language accessible by explaining the characters' meanings and formation. It focuses on their universality, combining illustrations and notes to reveal the underlying philosophy and art.
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Products in Chinese | | |  | Analysis of Chinese Characters
by G. D. Wilder, J. H. Ingram
Far and away the most useful analysis of characters for beginner, intermediate student. 1,000 most important characters analyzed according to primitives, phonetics, historical development. Traditional method offers mnemonic aid to students of Chinese and Japanese.
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| | Chinese Characters
by L. Wieger
A series of etymological lessons classifies 2,300 Chinese characters, noting their modern and archaic forms, pronunciation, origin, semantic content, and variants, plus quotations of classical usage. Includes several lexicons and other supplements.
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|  | Mandarin Chinese Dictionary: English-Chinese
by Fred Fangyu Wang
This reference was devised for use in high schools and colleges to facilitate both comprehension and reproduction, with particular emphasis on syntactic structure, functional elements such as particles, and idiomatic expressions.
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| | Modern Chinese: A Basic Course
by Peking University
This thorough textbook covers phonetics, vocabulary, and a practical analytical grammar. Graded lessons offer both characters and phonetic transcriptions, reading exercises, and practice in translation and writing.
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|  | Modern Chinese: A Second Course
by Peking University
Second volume (Lessons 31–72) of widely respected course in modern (Mandarin) Chinese. Basic sentence patterns, word order, complementary particles, etc. Pin Yin transcription. Includes review of basic grammar, complete glossary, other aids.
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