Posted by Hao on September 06, 1998 at 02:13:20:
This is a general question to all. Do you think the radical system, stroke order, and all current method of looking up characters is very efficient for beginning, intermediate, and even advanced students learning Chinese? It seems that students would have a very difficult time just trying what part of the character to search for and may very likely spend immense time searching and never find the character.