Method for learning chinese character script and chinese character-based scripts of other languages

A key-symbol dictionary for learning multi-radical words in a Chinese-character-based language having a set of Chinese radicals, comprising:

• key-symbol pages each respectively associated with a single Chinese radical within the set of Chinese radicals and having thereon:
• the single Chinese radical as a symbol;
• a single keyword corresponding to a given meaning of the single Chinese radical, the single keyword:
• being in a user's language and having letters in the user's alphabet;
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• including therein a bridge comprised of at least one of the letters;
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• a list of memory joggers, each memory jogger being a word in the user's language containing at least the bridge, the list of memory joggers being selected such that a multi-radical word having at least two of the Chinese radicals can be recognized with a mnemonic formed from one memory jogger from each page corresponding to each of the at least two of the Chinese radicals;
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• the key-symbol pages being ordered alphabetically based on a spelling of the bridge associated with each key-symbol page;
• a user radical dictionary section containing a list of user-recognized radicals within the set of Chinese radicals, each entry in the list of user-recognized radicals having thereat:
• the keyword associated with the respective single Chinese radical;
• the bridge associated with the keyword in the key-symbol page for the respective single Chinese radical;
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• each entry in the list of user-recognized radicals being ordered alphabetically based on a spelling of a respective one of the associated bridges;
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• a user multi-radical dictionary section containing a list of user-recognized multi-radical words, each entry in the list of user-recognized multi-radical words having:
• a written form of the multi-radical word containing at least two of the user-recognized radicals;
• a written form of the meaning of the multi-radical word in the user's language;
• the bridge entry for each of the at least two of the user-recognized radicals within the multi-radical word;
• a mnemonic in the user's language for recalling the written form of the multi-radical word, the mnemonic being based upon at least one memory jogger for each of the user-recognized radicals within the multi-radical word;
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• each entry in the list of user-recognized multi-radical words being ordered alphabetically based first on a spelling of a first bridge associated with a respective one of the user-recognized multi-radical words.