Product Description

A companion to Chinese in a Flash Volume 1, this boxed set contains another 448 flash cards featuring the most common Chinese vocabulary used in everyday speech. An accompanying booklet explains how to use the cards and lists all the characters covered, with indices by radical and stroke count and by pinyin romanization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69550 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-15
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Cards
• 448 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780804833622
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
Tuttle Publishing has corrected the printing error on the cards as mentioned in the following review:

Printing error on this set of cards, February 27, 2006 Reviewer: M. Deriban - See all my reviews Vol. 2 of Chinese in a Flash (flashcards) has a printing error.

If you feel that your cards are printed incorrectly, please contact Tuttle's customer service department at 800-526-2778 or 802-773-8930.

From the Inside Flap

About the Author
Philip Yungkin Lee, a native speaker of Chinese, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has published several language learning titles and has received a Teaching Excellence award from his university. He is also the author of the Pocket Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, the Pocket Cantonese Dictionary, the Essential Chinese Mandarin Phrase Book, the Essential Cantonese Phrase Book, 250 Essential Chinese Characters for Everyday Use, Vol. 1 and Chinese in a Flash, Vols. 1 & 2, from Tuttle Publishing and Periplus Editions.

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT TOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS
First, I would like to say that i'm really happy with my purchase.

I bought the cards vol1 and vol2 by amazon, both are great, excellent price-value, and exceeded my expectations.

Second, this cards are not for begginers, are not to learn by yourself, you have to know pinyin and have some formal instruction before use this cards, in particular with volume 2, that introduces more complicated symbols .

Third, can help you with simplified chinese and traditional.
Fourth, each card include valuable information as:

1.-Meaning
2.-Pinyin
3.-Radical
4.-Chinese Proverb or expression that use that word in pinyin/hanzi/english.-
5.-3 or 4 common words that includes the symbol (pinyin/hanzi/english)


However, the volume 2 doesn't include the order of the strokes.
Volume 1 includes the order. I have no idea the volumes why are different, or i received and older version of volume 2, but for me it's the only lack of this cards.-

Finally, the cards are in package that has the shape of a book. That it's great to carry the cards everywhere.
This it's important for me because i used other cards before and the box was a nightmare, every day the box opened in my purse, and i have to order de 500 cards by number again.

I totally recommend this volume.

Sincerely

Carolina from the south of the world

PD: Sorry for my english, i speak spanish and some chinese

Printing error on this set of cards
Vol. 2 of Chinese in a Flash (flashcards) has a printing error. The top of the front of the cards is the same edge as the top of the back of the cards. This means you cannot "flip" the card by holding it on the side to read the back of the card. Vol. 1 of this set is printed correctly so you you can flip them by holding the side of the card. This makes it a real pain when trying to mix cards from both sets. Tuttle Publishing realizes this problem and corrected cards will be available the end of April 2006. Tuttle may be contacted for an excahnge if you already have the misprinted second set. Otherwise these cards have been useful to me when used with the asociated books in my study of Chinese characters.

Useful Tool for Learning Chinese Characters
Since I have both "Chinese in a Flash" and "Chinese Character Flashcards 888" flashcard sets, I wanted to offer a comparison between the two.

Flashcards 888 are organized in the order of frequency of use of characters; Chinese in a Flash are arranged in the order of frequency and complexity. Someone learning Chinese language is more likely to encounter characters in the order presented in Chinese in a Flash cards.

Flashcards 888 are of a sturdier quality than Chinese in a Flash cards.

Both are approximately the same size.

Both have radicals mentioned. On Flashcards 888, radicals are provided in the upper right corner on the front of the card; on Chinese in a Flash cards, beside the radical is also noted the name of the character as well as character components.

On Flashcards 888, you'll also find a stroke order, helpful to know when you practice writing characters; Chinese in a Flash cards, do not provide a stroke order.

Both sets also mention several character combinations, together with their pronounciation in pinyin and the meaning in English.

Chinese in a Flash also provide a sample sentence where the particular character / word is used; Flashcards 888 don't.

Flashcards come in one set of 888 cards; Chinese in Flash come in two sets of 448 cards.

I am very happy with both sets and enjoy using them both.