The Practical Chinese Reader is a comprehensive introductory Mandarin Chinese language textbook series for use in courses at secondary schools or universities. The series follows two students as they first study Chinese in their own country, and then go to China to participate in a foreign exchange program there. The two-volume beginning level consists of 50 lessons and introduces a vocabulary of 1,000 basic words. For simplified character texts for Books 1 and 2, two editions are available. The content is identical, but the paper and printing quality of the Hong Kong edition is better than that of the Beijing edition. Books 3 through 6 are available only in simplified characters. Books 3 and 4 consist of 30 lessons covering some 2,000 words, while Books 5 and 6 consist of 30 lessons covering approximately 3,000 words. Texts in books 5 and 6 are original essays and literary works in Chinese.
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By "brgaeke" (Urbana, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Practical Chinese Reader, Book 1: (Traditional Character) Textbook (C & T Asian Language Series) (Paperback)
Pluses: uses traditional characters; lists both pinyin (romanization) and hanzi (chinese characters) for some words. Minuses: teaches you an outdated style of speech; does not include hanzi for a lot of words; linguistic explanations have plenty of errors and are not very revealing; plenty of typos; very poorly printed -- did they use an old Xerox machine or something?; lots of propaganda.
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This review is from: Practical Chinese Reader, Book 1: (Traditional Character) Textbook (C & T Asian Language Series) (Paperback)
This book is wonderful because it is EXACTLY what I was looking for: a Mandarin Chinese textbook that uses TRADITIONAL characters. It is important to learn the traditional characters because the traditional characters are used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and in older Chinese books published on the mainland.
I find the readings interesting and the grammatical explanations clear and concise. I like the way the readings at the beginning of each chapter include the pinyin transcription underneath the characters for most of the book (at the beginning the pinyin is above the characters). My only complaint is that there is no vocabulary at the back of the book. However, the vocabulary is included in the separate volume Practical Chinese Reader I: Patterns and Exercises, which I've ordered. All in all, this is a great course.
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