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). For a GERMAN VERSION, please see ISBN 9789881919380. This volume is available in an English-Spanish and French-German edition. weiterlesen