System and method for learning Chinese character script and Chinese character-based scripts of other languages

A method for learning scripts of Chinese-character-based languages using a computer-based key-symbol system, the method comprising:

• storing a set of pages in an electronic key-symbol dictionary, each of the pages:
• having a bridge entry respectively associated with a single Chinese radical within a set of Chinese radicals in a Chinese-character-based language;
• having the single Chinese radical as a symbol;
• having 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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• having a plurality of different memory joggers, each of the different memory joggers being a word in the user's language containing therein the bridge;
• creating a user-recognized radical dictionary by identifying a list of user-recognized Chinese radicals and electronically collating the pages associated with each of the user-recognized Chinese radicals;
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• creating a user-recognized complex-character dictionary by:
• identifying a complex Chinese multi-character to be learned;
• electronically transcribing a set of at least two of the user-recognized Chinese radicals within the complex Chinese multi-character to be learned;
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• electronically transcribing a mnemonic in the language of the user for recalling the written form of the complex Chinese multi-character, the mnemonic being based upon the keywords, memory joggers, and bridges associated with the recognized set of the at least two user-recognized Chinese radicals within the complex Chinese multi-character.