Chinese in a Flash, Vol. 1

Tuttle Flash Cards offer a comprehensive and well-designed way to help travelers and beginning learners of Asian languages. The character in its traditional form is on the front of each card. The back includes a smaller version of the simplified character, its pronunciation, English translation, and other valuable information. A sample sentence is included to reinforce correct grammar and usage. Each set comes with a booklet that explains how to use the cards, a list of characters, and various indexes for easy look-up. Each set features the everyday verbs, nouns and adjectives arranged in thematic groups reflecting common situations. This feature makes it easy to learn related words which facilitates progressive learning. Their convenient, portable size makes it easy to carry them with you to learn and test yourself during spare moments throughout the day. The series will include "Kanji Cards 1 and 2, Kana Cards, Japanese in a Flash 1 and 2, Indonesian in a Flash 1, Chinese in a Flash 1 and 2, as well as parallel sets of flash cards for Arabic, Filipino, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. Whether on a train from Beijing to Shanghai or sitting under a tree in Berkeley, you can be practicing your Chinese with this quick and easy-to-use set of flashcards. "Chinese in a Flash Volume 1 has a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate learners through character recognition, vocabulary recongnition, revision and testing. It includes indexes by radical, stroke count, and alphabetically by pinyin romanization.