Cracking Characters is a program suitable for all international learners of Chinese characters. It contains all the information necessary to achieve success from a beginners level for the motivated learner. Cracking Characters app for the iPhone is part of a Chinese character learning program, unlike any other. Go past memorizing strokes and radicals. Improve your Chinese by discovering the building blocks of Chinese characters and watch as the language unfurls before your eyes.This unique program is created by character researcher Leo Fu who build a system that explains the underlying structure of Chinese characters through the understanding of their evolution. Years of research and development have yielded the book and dvd program Cracking Characters.The first 300 most frequently used characters are featured in this app. A continuation of the app series is soon to follow. In this app you will discover: Firstly, the character roots: The Chinese Character Roots are the smallest units of creating Chinese characters All Chinese characters are derived from 300 Chinese roots. Mastering these 300 Chinese Character Roots is almost equal to acquiring every single Chinese character! The Roots, like building blocks, are not radicals or strokes, but the basic meaningful units within characters. In fact, each Chinese character contains at least one of these roots. They are genes and codes of characters, unfolding the map of Chinese knowledge. And Secondly, how to learn the most useful language first: Learning efficiently and systematically the most frequently used 300 Chinese characters as determined by the National Linguistic Committee will enable you to learn very useful language that you will come across in daily life. We welcome your reviews and are constantly working to improve the program according to your requests. The fully comprehensive DVD set and workbook is available at crackingcharacters.com