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Review title: An essential tool for the beginning language learner
Product review: Never believing this book to be a dictionary substitute, I was not disappointed, as was Amazon's reviewer, with the content. But as a student at the Beijing Language Institute, where the faculty assumed you knew how to write characters, or would find out, I found this book invaluable. As students of Chinese know, the exact configuration of characters in language texts isn't always apparent--the calligraphy isn't clear or is too small or contains an unfamiliar feature. Rita Choy's book enables students to find almost any word in their text, fairly easily, and provides clear stroke order charts for the learner.One caution: the book uses complex characters. Nonetheless, even in Beijing, I found the book very useful
