Chinese textbooks for beginners (English speaker)
English translation: A bit of advice
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I can give you a little advice ... Explanation: I would recommend materials produced in the PRC by the Foreign Languages Press, 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing, such as the four part 'Elementary Chinese Readers'. This has a very good set of tapes to help you read and pronounce Chinese characters, introduction to Pinyin (the standard system for romanization in China nowadays), training in writing simplified characters etc. I am also a fan of 'Colloquial Chinese' published by Routledge and P. C. T'ung and D. E. Pollard, Dept of the Far East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1983. This course also comes with tapes and simplified or full form versions of the character texts and was produced for first year university student beginners. I don't know where you are located, but both texts can be found from academic booksellers in London, such as Grant & Cutler (see http://www.grant-c.demon.co.uk/catalogues/oriental/orient106... or Dillons. They would ship them to you , I am sure. Hope this is a useful start - I am sure you will find the study of Chinese a lifelong pleasure. Good luck! |
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A bit of advice Explanation: I agree with the first respondee. 'Elementary Chinese Reader" would be the best book to learn Chinese from and it is easy to obtain no matter where you live. There is not much more information I can give you except to say that this series of text books has ORANGE covers. People often confuse this series with "Practical Chinese Readers" which has GREEN covers and is nowhere near as good. Here in Australia, and I have no idea where you live, I can recommend the "Ni Hao" series of books. They are very good and designed for people with no experience whatsoever. I have used the textbook to teach with during my stint as a Chinese teacher. the "Hanyu" series of text books produced in Australia is also quite good. If you think these texts may be of some interest, please let me know and I can put you in touch the the author. I also have a book which I picked up from some Africans in Shanghai. It is an intensive elementary textbook designed to achieve Chinese language proficiency to a very fluent level within 1 year. I highly recommend the book and if you are interested, I can send it to you wherever you are. Let me know if you need any further information. I would be only too willing to help. |
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