This series teaches the 2,700 most important Chinese characters. These characters collectively represent over 98% of the characters used in written form in newspapers and other journalistic essays.
Mastering these 2,700 characters is the key to achieving literacy in Chinese. The first course, Level 1, assumes little or no prior knowledge of Chinese characters, while Level 10 is for very advanced learners.
Our selection of characters represents an attempt to strike a balance between the most common characters and the most useful ones, with a focus on characters necessary for reading journals, essays, and newspaper articles.
Consulting frequency lists, our staff of experienced native-speaker instructors chose characters that, in their judgment, (1) are pertinent to society, culture, science and technology, business and economics, administration, politics, military affairs, the environment, and other current issues of international importance; and (2) are useful in understanding the main ideas of prose conveying factual information and the writer’s opinion.
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