The fun, playful way to learn Chinese!

The book contains:

An introduction explaining the principles of the Sudoku puzzle and the theoretical background.
18 typical Chinese sentences in simplified characters, with standard Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, a word-by-word literal translation, and a second translation into fluent English.

72 Sudoku puzzles plus solutions – half of them beginner-level, the other half, advanced.

A glossary of all words and characters used in the book.

A pronunciation chart for the Romanization system, a pull-out stroke chart illustrating the direction

of the 31 basic strokes which form the characters, and, right next to the Sudoku,

the instruction on how to write each character showing the correct order of strokes.

 

The puzzles look like this:

And the solutions:

 

This is the pull-out chart explaining the correct stroke direction:

 

And these are sample instructions for the correct order of strokes:

 

The charts will help you find characters of unknown pronunciation in the dictionary,

where they are listed according to the number of strokes.

You can also listen to the correct pronunciation of the words in the order of their appearance in the glossary. Schmetterling publishers have provided an MP3 audio file that can be downloaded at:

> http://www.schmetterling-verlag.de/sino-sudoku.htm

 

We hope you enjoy learning Chinese characters with our book!