It would fail as a complete guide to all the important phrases and words. It would never be a panaceum for Chinese learners. It’s good, also, that the book plays to its strengths. You want to interrupt everyone around you just to tell them “look at the symbol for sheep, just look at it, it looks like a bloody sheep!” – you want to come back to the book to browse again, and to learn more – and the creative strain within you wants to recreate the symbols as best it can. I’m happy to say that 9 times out of 10, this has been achieved. If the design worked, it would make users want more – it would help them remember better – and recognize the symbols / phrases in real life. The illustrations for the basic characters – called “building blocks” in Chineasy philosophy – would always be the mainstay of the entire concept. The team seems to have realized that it’s the little things that make a language palatable or somehow unbearable – and everything seems to be obsessively planned to achieve a nice effect. The book is just about the prettiest language learning publication I’ve come in contact with – and if you know me, you know that means an awful lot! Everything about it – the cover, the font, the layout – denotes good and meticulous work on the little details that matter. If it was Chineasy‘s only merit, this alone would make the book worth buying.įortunately, there’s more.
Shaolan Hsueh resists this narrative with a story of her own – a perfectly and beautifully crafted narrative in which learning Chinese is placed within a well-designed, friendly and attractive context. And in the long run, this stereotypical image becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: you’re not learning Chinese because it’s hard, and when it shows up in your life, it’s hard because you haven’t learned it.
The myth of Chinese language is nearly always the same: the learning process is arduous, the speech itself – shrouded in mystery and unforgiving for beginners. There are very few beautiful language learning tools out there. OL19977296W Page_number_confidence 88.00 Pages 202 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211222213250 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 265 Scandate 20211218163857 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780062332097 Tts_version 4.Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese by Shaolan Hsueh Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:28 Associated-names Bar, Noma, 1973- illustrator Boxid IA40788418 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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