Author Description

This is an entertaining book... and a very special one. The first story of John Yoo is written in all one hundred of today’s most commonly used Chinese characters. If you want to read this story as a beginner to Chinese, all you have to do is learn ten characters a day—ten days in total. These one hundred characters constitute, in frequency, over 40% of all characters that are used in the Chinese language, so they will be integral to all Chinese reading in the future. As we move along the series, every book will use an additional one hundred characters; I hope that you can enjoy the humor, fun, and surprising simplicity of the Chinese language as you continue learning through the stories of John Yoo.