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Brave New Chinese Manifesto: Debuting revolutionary new phonetic Chinese scripts and input methods that will make Chinese much easier to learn

 
 
Brave New Chinese Manifesto: Debuting revolutionary new phonetic Chinese scripts and input methods that will make Chinese much easier to learn
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Brave New Chinese Manifesto: Debuting revolutionary new phonetic Chinese scripts and input methods that will make Chinese much easier to learn

Chinese had no phonetic symbols. In 1914 Bopomofo was introduced to represent 38 sound elements and 5 tones of Chinese. It's great, yet non-Roman. Later China adopted Pinyin that uses alphabets. But it's ill-designed and not compatible with English. Mr Simon, a Taiwanese, considered Pinyin an obstacle for Chinese to be a global language. He thus spent 6 years inventing a revolutionary system. It includes "Alphanumese - a one-symbol-one-sound phonetic key system using alphanumerical keys, Abcedese - a new Romanization method fully compatible with English phonics, Dualese - best of both (ideographic and phonetic) worlds, Namesake Input Method that allows Chinese and English to be typed without mode change, 24-key super fast input method that does keyboard/keypad/cellphone input & hand signs, a special encoding that overcomes homograph problem and achieves error-free text-to-speech". This book writes about those breakthrough inventions and Simon's incredible saga of seeking and discovery.

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Product Details:
Author: Simon Shyu
Paperback: 170 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: March 20, 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 1439229783
Package Length: 9.5 inches
Package Width: 7.5 inches
Package Height: 0.43 inches
Package Weight: 0.88 pounds
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5Brave and Powerful  Aug 17, 2009
I began reading this book with a limited knowledge of languages. I had studied Mandarin part time for 18 months using Pinyin, dropping out in frustration. The first thing that struck me is the enthusiasm and passion of the writer for his belief in his inventions and how flawed is the system called Pinyin. I began to understand the concepts of how a language may be learnt and learnt amazingly quickly. Simon unlocked for me how one can absorb information and process it for practical application. I look forward to the next step.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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