First Chinese Reader for Beginners

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Chinese-English translation. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The method utilizes the natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only about thirty new words each. The phonetic transcription Pinyin transcribes the sounds of Mandarin using the western (Roman) alphabet. The audio tracks are available inclusive online.

As you read this bilingual reader, your brain begins to remember words and phrases simply because you are exposed to them several times. You don’t even realize, until you must recall what you’ve learned, that you have already learned the new words and phrases. This graded language book with a parallel translation has helped many to uncover their potential for learning multiple languages. A good idea is to use the free VLC media player to control the playing speed. Whether you are learning a language as a hobby or for a necessary purpose, you will find this book is supportive.