Practical Chinese: Traditional Character for Beginners I [Paperback]

Wendy Lin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2000

This beginners level of The Effective Way of Learning Reading, Writing, and Speaking Chinese; series is specifically designed for the young native speakers of English who are learning verb usage in Mandarin and who have little or no previous experience in learning Chiese. This book provides various activities in reading and speaking to help expand daily vocabularies especially for younger children. They will find learning the Chinese language is not as difficult as they though. In order to help the children study independently, all the vocabularies use the alphabet to spell out the sound of each word. More information about pinyin can be found in Level one of this series.

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About the Author

Wendy Lin is a licensed Chinese language teacher, owns two Masters' degrees: an Education Master's degree and a computer Science Master's degree. Based on her experience of teaching Chinese language and culture in both public and private schools, as well as in American and Chinese schools, Wendy designed these series books primarily for the students' daily needs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages
• Publisher: Creative World Enterprises Inc. (April 15, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970121881
• ISBN-13: 978-0970121882
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,225,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best of the kind in the market today, September 18, 2001

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Jainchung Wang (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Chinese: Traditional Character for Beginners I (Paperback)

This is the best Chinese book I ever had to review for our school. It is an excellent textbook series suitable for a wide range of students, from beginners to the very advanced. The best of all is that it covers not only the langage itself but also the Chinese cultual. It helps the readers in a great deal to gain in-depth understanding of the subjects.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can spend half hour every day on this book, you can master and speak chinese in 1 month. Guaranteed, September 18, 2010

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Ecommerce Genius (Princeton, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Chinese: Traditional Character for Beginners I (Paperback)

I started learning chinese in my university, during my bachelors degree program around 12 years ago. For all these 12 years, I was still struggling to learn chinese without a good book. Then I came across this book, and I started practicing the exercises in the work book. With in no time, I was surprised to understand, why I was not able to master chinese for all these years. The reason was, all the chinese books I have read so far was written by Chinese authors who does not really understand what a foreigner really needs to understand and learn Chinese.

Read the text book and practice the work book. You will learn chinese.

This books is written by a Certified US High School teahcer who has been in USA for the past 30 years. She understands a foreigner who is interested to learn chinese. And this book is written exactly for that purpose.

This is the best Chinese book I ever had to review for learning chinese.It helps the readers in a great deal to gain in-depth understanding of the subjects.

Also try the companion work book and in no time you will be able to learn chinese. Just like anything else you need to have dedication. If you have a dedication and half hour a day for a month, you will learn to speak and write chinese. If you are brand new you might need some initial help from some one who know Mandarin chinese. Rest is up to you. You can easily learn chinse with ths book.