New Practical Chinese Reader is a comprehensive textbook series for English-speaking learners of Mandarin. Volume 6 (Lessons 61–70) includes engaging content to improve your reading and conversation skills.
Chinese Intensive Reading Course Level 3 teaches students reading skills using articles about daily life in contemporary China, vocabulary lists, grammar points, exercises, and more. In depth grammar explanations and a wide variety of exercises based on articles and grammar help students to gain reading skills gradually and fundamentally. In simplified Chinese characters and pinyin. Vocabulary is in English. Each book comes with an audio CD. Vol. 2 is not yet available.
Chinese Intensive Reading Course Level 3 teaches students reading skills using articles about daily life in contemporary China, vocabulary lists, grammar points, exercises, and more. In depth grammar explanations and a wide variety of exercises based on articles and grammar help students to gain reading skills gradually and fundamentally. In simplified Chinese characters and pinyin. Vocabulary is in English. Each book comes with an audio CD. Vol. 2 is not yet available.
Chinese Intensive Reading Course Level 2 teaches students advanced reading skills with relatively long articles about daily life in contemporary China, vocabulary lists, grammar points, exercises, and more. In depth grammar explanations and a wide variety of exercises based on articles and grammar help students to learn reading skills gradually and fundamentally. In simplified Chinese characters and pinyin. Vocabulary in English. Each book comes with an audio CD.
The ELEMENTARY CHINESE READERS were originally published by Foreign Languages Press in 1980. In spite of the name, it is an introduction not only to the Chinese writing system, but also to Chinese grammar in general. The twenty-six chapters of the first volume will take the student from just saying "Hello, how are you?" to talking about his sightseeing activities as a tourist in China.
Technically the book has everything one needs for autodidactic learning. Each chapter presents new vocabulary and then gives a series of rigorous drills to ensure the information sinks into the student's head. There are also casettes available for the text, which mean that one is not depend on the abstract phonetic descriptions of Chinese sounds in the book. However, if you are planning to teach yourself Chinese from scratch, there are much friendlier books available, such as TEACH YOURSELF CHINESE or Routledge's COLLOQUIAL CHINESE. The ELEMENTARY CHINESE READERS are really meant for classroom use where instruction is given by a native speaker. Indeed, each grammatical point is accompanied by a Chinese explanation in Chinese characters, so that the instructor, who might not necessarily speak English, can make their alongside the students.
"Elementary Chinese Reader Vol. 2" compiled by the Beijing Language Institute, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published in 1980, the total number of pages of the book 266 pages.
