The method has helped thousands of students memorizing the Japanese kanji now adapted to the Chinese characters, hanzi._x000D_
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Book 1 of Hanzi-Chinese Traditional remembering, writing and covers the meaning of the 1,000 most common characters in the traditional system of Chinese writing, plus another 500 recommended. The traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and many overseas Chinese communities._x000D_
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With this method, the student learns to use the "imaginative memory" to relate the various components that make up each character as well as to associate with a keyword carefully chosen to represent a basic meaning of it. This is achieved by creating a "story" that encompasses all these elements. Thus, clusters of points, lines and components that make the characters associated with ease of recall, which helps to shorten considerably the time spent at the same time prevents the learned characters are lost in the cracks of memory.