Chinese Characters in English Reading: An easy way to visually recognize Chinese characters in English

With the rapid development of Chinese economy and culture in recent years, China has become a country which attracts the world's attention. Not only the investors of every country come swarming into China, making China become the heaven of those pioneering men, but also those ordinary people in the world look at China with new eyes, flowing to travel and visit China. The European and American tourists who travel to China can amount to several tens of millions.

However, when walking on the streets in China, the tourists from eastern countries which have some relations with Chinese characters such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam, will be familiar with the signboards and road signs with Chinese characters on the street. Nevertheless, among those European and American tourists, over 99% of them are all in the fluster to the signs. Although they can sense a hint of oriental mystery, the meanings of those signboards are all Greek to them.

Mr. Tan, Jimin invents an easy way for westerners to recognize Chinese characters - a book named Chinese Characters in English Reading - An Easy Way to Visually Recognize Chinese Characters in English. So the westerners who never learn Chinese can also understand the meanings of the signboards and road signs as easily as visitors from Japan, Korea and Vietnam, appreciating the witness of them.

This book doesn't require that the European and American readers must learn Chinese. Instead, some frequently used English phrases; interesting short essays and famous poetry are written in English mixed with some Chinese characters. Because the phrases are written in English mixed with some Chinese characters, they can read fluently in English, at the same time, they can know and memorize the meanings of some common Chinese characters.

This way is developed from the way of Japanese writing system, which is also adding some Chinese characters. Even if Japanese people can not understand Chinese language, they can recognize many Chinese characters, because they learn those characters when they write Japanese which includes some Chinese characters. Therefore, Japanese can easily know the meaning of signboards on the streets in China.

The visitors from western countries can learn many Chinese characters if they read this book before coming to China. Besides, the book introduces in detail about the strokes of Chinese characters, the witness in the Chinese four-character phrases, the evolution of these characters, interesting words and some Chinese characters appeared on the streets. If the westerners acquire some preparatory knowledge after reading this book, I believe they can feel closer to Chinese culture when they are walking on the Chinese streets.