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Chinese Primer: Character Text

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This book fills a void. The grammar is straightforward, the examples clear, and there are plenty of exercises. It's excellent for students of chinese who have some foundation already and are looking vastly and quickly improve upon it.

The first half of the book is completely simplified characters and the second half of the book is the same material but in traditional characters and format. The content in this book (green book) are the same skits/plays presented in the blue Chinese primer book except the blue book has them in pinyin and English. So this is perfect for enhancing character vocabulary. The skits depict real life situations so it's good to see the Chinese language used as it is in everyday conversations. The vocabulary starts simple in the first skit and progresses with each one. Worth every penny. I use it for college and it will be good to review from time to time to keep it fresh in my mind.

Ch'en and Link's Chinese Primer series is an excellent introduction to the language. Detailed and clear grammatical explanations complement texts that give individual attention to each of the four areas of foreign language learning: reading, writing, listening and speaking. However, the best feature of Princeton's texts is the dialogues: rather than tread through the same-old tired sequence of "greetings", "where are you from?", "how old are you" etc., the authors creatively use the most basic vocabulary and sentence patterns to create conversations that are humorous and full of life.


Nathan Dummitt
author of Chinese Through Tone & Color

The book came in great condition and it arrived on time. Also, I got it for a good price.