geniusChinese Mnemonics: Learn All 5467 Characters as Pictures (for 2 to 4-Years-olds to Color Chinese)

A picture is worthy of 1000 words! geniusChinese is a patent-pending system that helps students learn simplified Chinese characters using imagination and creativity. This system shows how to imagine each of the 5467 simplified characters as a picture or a combination of pictures, without getting into the technique details of how the character evolves from its pictograph. Each stroke of a Chinese character is colored according to a part of the picture. This vivid and direct contrast between a simplified character and a picture helps a learner to understand and memorize the meaning of the character more efficiently than studying the character's archaic form. Each character is also accompanied with a brief rhyme explaining the picture and reciting its pronunciation. When a student who may not fully appreciate the meaning of the rhyme imitates it for a couple of times, they are still able to retain the character's pronunciation by using the rhyme as a clue. Furthermore, because the strokes are colorful, a learner can instantly tell which stroke is written after another by checking if its color covers another's. In the volume "for 2 to 4-Years-olds to Color Chinese," more than 100 most frequently-used Chinese characters are included for youngsters to color each stroke according to the given picture. This product is both audio and visual. Other "geniusChinese" teaching series are available for various Chinese learning needs.