Remembering Simplified Hanzi 2: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters Paperback – January 31, 2012

Excellent book! Greatly enjoyed. You can learn really fast with them :)

Having Simplifed Hanzi and halfway though it, 1 I couldn't live without the second one. I highly recommend these books. Fast delivery and an excellent product!

If you have started learning Chinese characters using Heisig's method, continuing with this book is a no-brainer. The layout is identical to book 1: characters are introduced in 55 lessons as natural combinations of smaller character parts. This is supposed to make it easier to memorize. Included are a few of the mneumonic stories that filled the first book, but mostly you are left to come up with your own stories. But honestly, by the time you reach book 2, you should know 1500 characters and 1500 stories, so inventing more shouldn't be too difficult. I do wish the authors had included more mneumonics in the early chapters to aid students who use book 1 and 2 simultaneously (hence 4 stars instead of 5).You can get a list of the characters and their pronunciation online, so technically this book is not "required." But I highly recommend it because the authors point out important details of meaning or writing for many characters that you would not know just by reading the index. If you are a serious student of Chinese Hanzi, this book is highly recommended.

Great Book!! Love this Book!!!

The review below seems to be annoyed by the lack of mnemonics given, but as the author states in the first book, it is better to create your own mnemonics. The author gives hundreds of mnemonics in Book 1, but by Book 2 you have to create your own. I've completed Book 1, and this is a much better method. Heisig is a long, probably one year, commitment, so this is not for a casual learner. If you don't have Book 1, this book won't be as useful.Final point: Heisig's books are invaluable for giving elements of characters that are not characters themselves, but reoccur a lot.

Great! Product as advertised. Quick delivery!

Just got the book and have not started it yet, but I quickly noticed that less than half of the characters have stories to them. The other characters simply have two key words listed next to the character where you make up your own story or just remember the keywords and hopefully remember the hanzi itself. The book is pretty much an overpriced Hanzi list, might as well just use the zhongwen.com or the flashcard deck that you can download for it on Anki, all of this is free.