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Title: 250 Essential Chinese Charaters for Everyday Use Vol. 1
Review: Philip Yungkin Lee has done an outstanding job of combining meaningful character contexts, exercises and review material. The book depicts both traditional Chinese characters and the simplified character set. If you have both the time and the patience, you can learn a multitude of essential characters and phrases. One thing I would suggest to Turtle Publishing, is to expand the Student's Guide section dealing with pinyin pronunciations on page xii; add pronunciations of multiple vowel combinations. Outside of this one recommendation, if you are planning a trip to China and truly want to learn how to both read and write "putonghau" Vol.1 and 2 are the books for you.
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