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 Excellent cards, great price, and better than the reviews November 11, 2005
Carolina Hernandez Diaz (Santiago, Chile)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
First, i would like to declare that i read all the amazon's reviews before add to my shopping cart this cards. Some include false information.-
I hope that you compare this review with the others, because i bougth this item in amazon, i study chinese, a i'm talking about something that i'm using.
I have to say that my purchase was excellent.
This cards are not for beginners. It's for students that have some knowledge of chinese characters, grammar and pinyin.
You dont try to buy if you are looking for something to learn by yourself with no training.
Second, this cards include a lot of practical information:
a) Simplified and Traditional chinese symbol
b) Order to write the strokes.
c) A proverb or an interesting sentence using the symbol.
d) 5 common word that include the symbol.
6) the radical of the symbol
7) The meaning of the symbol.
It's a really useful tool and the box have the shape of a book so it's easy to carry instead other cards that i have the chance to use.
The only negative part it's that this cards are not too resistant.
Sincerely
From the South of the world.
Carolina from Chile
Essential study aid July 28, 2005
Steven Larsen (Philadelphia, USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Some people seem not to be aware that these cards are designed for use with the author's books. The card order follows the order in the books exactly. What the books give you are instrucion in and ample opportunity to practice writing the characters. Also, the book is in larger type, and easier to learn from at first.
It is true that these do not have the stroke order on the cards, but they are flash cards and I wouldn't expect to use them to practice writing, but rather for character recognition.
I haven't seen the other competing set of cards, but I am very happy with these. The characters are in simplified form, but the traditional form is shown where differences exist. The physical quality is excellent as well.
 Rushed to press? Still good, but beware January 29, 2007
Michael Suttles (Taipei, Taiwan)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I wanted to post a warning to potential buyers about this set--mostly because I've been so satisfied with the first Chinese in a Flash volumes. Let me first say that I'm impressed overall with this series, and it has helped me navigate through this torturous language. However, I got the impression that this one wasn't proofed sufficiently before it went to press.
I've used the set on-and-off while studying Mandarin by cross-referencing whatever vocabulary I'm learning with these cards. The main problem I've found--and this is on more than five or ten cards--is that the traditional character and the simplified character are switched. Not a huge problem, but still very "troublesome," as they like to say in Chinese. (One example is the word "chen4," to take advantage of.) For students of simplified characters, this could be quite annoying since some of the traditional characters look completely different, so looking a character up in the index can be a wild goose chase.
All in all, I still like the series. In fact, when I bought Vol. 2 and the cards were printed "upside down" (i.e. differently from the other sets), the company sent me a corrected set free of charge. But just be aware that, if you decide to buy this volume, it does have some errors that you need to look out for.
 Chinese in a Flash: Volume 1 May 26, 2005
L. Frizzell-reynolds (W. Mass.)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The set is great to use for memorizing characters and their meanings, many of the words you will learn are compounds so in volume 1 you will need to use two of the cards to help, or hopefully it's on the bottom of the card as a compound.
I would give it 5 stars but as other reviewers point out, it lacks the stroke order for the characters. Otherwise a great set and I highly recommend it and volume 2! They work wonders and are better than staring at my horrible handwriting.
I use the flash cards in conjunction with Reading and Writing Chinese by Mcnaughton and Li.
Helps with reading, writing, spoken usage November 27, 2006
JPilot
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
These cards (including Vol. 2) are well-designed. They include for each character both simplified and traditional versions, diagrams of the step-by-step order for writing the strokes, the radical, the pinyin, a sample sentence, compound occurances, and of course the translation.
They are a nice portable way to study. To make them easier to carry around, I punched a hole in the corner of each card and put them on a book ring so they could be easily flipped through.
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