Third Pinyin Sudoku - HUA

"Chuntian hua hui kai" - Weather was great today, and it's the time for spring flowers, anyway, so here is the third pinyin sudoku, on HUA. Power to the flowers... Peace!

More chinese character sudoku sources:

Sino-Sudoku (book information website; in German)
Hanzi-Sudoku (online and downloads; in English)

There also exists a program "Word Sudoku to learn Chinese".

Links

If you happened to find Pinyin Sudoku, maybe you printed some and got interested in learning chinese. Then I suggest the following websites:

Great starting point: Detailed explanations of the characters, stroke orders, tests and superlearning, links to example sentences, and more (German website):
Täglich. Chinesisch.
Comprehensive collections of information and links (German websites):
http://www.xuexizhongwen.de/
http://www.easyou.de/
Very well explained Chinese expressions (German website):
blogs.chinesepod.com/de

Photographic Pinyin (listen to / watch examples of pronounciation patterns; English website)
Paint unknown characters (Javy needed) for English translations

Shanghai Expo - German Pavilion

If you happen to be in Shanghai during the Expo, don't miss the German Pavilion with its highlight (feature by German TV station ZDF) coming from Stuttgart.

More info on the Official German Pavilion website. This video newsletter is also in German but the website itself gives plenty of information in English, and in Chinese.

Invitation to visit the membrane roof and the pendulum in Shanghai -> on the University of Stuttgart / Expo 2010 website.

Second Pinyin Sudoku - BEI

This is the second sudoku sheet, focussing on "bei".

Additional information: Traditional characters are given in brackets. All sudoku setups themselves are considered to be "easy", which is why I left out the solutions. If you fail, just print it out again and try again... the more writing practice, the better ;-) If you should find any real mistakes, please tell me.

Credits: Characters - I use the free software Xuexi Zhongwen for the character lists. This program also has a nice learning game and text reading feature. The progam works with the free dictionary CEDICT.
Sudoku Puzzles - I generate them using the OpenSky Sudoku Generator and adapt them to show each character four times, so that it has to be written five times before the sudoku is solved.

First Pinyin Sudoku: FANG I

Some people spend a lot of time on solving sudokus but I couldn't see why. Then one day I came across websites and books about sudokus with chinese characters and found that this is actually a nice additional method for learning this language (well, at least parts of it...; by the way, I am referring to "putonghua"). Chinese characters look confusingly similar. Moreover, exchanging a radical or a tone results in a completely different meaning. So to get the most important characters straight for myself, I decided to build Pinyin Sudokus, each set of them focusing on one pinyin syllable. A google search I did just now on "Pinyin Sudoku" showed no results for this exact combination, so I guess I invented it ;-) Thus I present the first set to you - on "FANG" which is quite appropriate because the German word "Anfang" means "beginning". I aim to make one every other week (or more if I can find the time). I suggest filling in the first Sudoku to get acquainted with the characters, the second one some days later to practise, and the third one some weeks later to facilitate long-term memory. Have fun!

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