First Chinese Reader for Beginners: bilingual for speakers of English (Graded Chinese Readers) (English and Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Book 1 of 3: Graded Chinese Readers

Marina Chan

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9781493632169: First Chinese Reader for Beginners: bilingual for speakers of English (Graded Chinese Readers) (English and Chinese Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1493632167 ISBN 13: 9781493632169
Publisher: Language Practice Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Chinese-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method) utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author had to compose each sentence using only words explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only about 30 new words each. Phonetic transcription Pinyin transcribes the sounds of Mandarin using the western (Roman) alphabet. Audio tracks are available inclusive on lppbooks.com/Chinese/FirstChineseReader_audio/En/

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Publisher
Language Practice Publishing
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1493632167
ISBN 13 
9781493632169
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
174
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