- Paperback: 335 pages
- Publisher: Cheng & Tsui; 3 Blg edition (July 2008)
- Language: Chinese
- ISBN-10: 0887276393
- ISBN-13: 978-0887276392
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.1 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
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- #45 in Books > Children's Books > Educational > Multilingual > Chinese
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3.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
not enough speaking for my taste, Oct 12 2010
By C. Kless - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Integrated Chinese Level 1/Part 1 Textbook: Traditional Characters (Paperback)
I bought this book because it was required for the beginning Mandarin class I'm taking in college. Part of the difficulty in learning Mandarin is learning how to use the appropriate tones for the words when speaking. The other difficulty is in learning to read Chinese, because reading characters which represent whole words is quite different than reading words made up of letters representing different sounds. As a result, I think learning to speak and learning to write Mandarin are two distinct skill sets, and I feel that the emphasis on writing which this book has doesn't benefit the beginning student as much as an emphasis on speaking would.When we learn to speak as children, we have no clue how what we're saying is written, and when I learned French as a young child, we did no writing and no grammar at all. We spoke, played games, did skits, sang songs and learned simple conversations in French without ever seeing it written down or learning how to conjugate verbs, etc. As a result, I could speak a good amount of French and had a good accent by the time I took the beginning French class at school that included formal grammar and writing.
While I find Chinese characters fascinating, it's frustrating for me to be learning how to speak at such a slow pace and learning so few words because learning a new word means learning a new character. I find myself impatient to understand basic spoken Chinese and be able to converse at at least a basic level in Chinese at a faster rate than this book and the accompanying CDs provide.
3.0 out of 5 stars
It could be better., Mar 30 2012
By PankoDX - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Integrated Chinese Level 1/Part 1 Textbook: Traditional Characters (Paperback)
When it comes to learning languages, it's good to have good books to study with. The information presented in this textbook is great. It gives you cultural information, a decent amount of characters to study, and the vocab lists aren't too shabby either.However! The paper this is printed on makes it awful for writing notes. If you're like me, you like to fill your language textbooks with mnemonic devices and new vocabulary. Unless you're writing in pen, this book is going to keep you from doing this easily.
Also, the pictures are horrible. Whoever was hired to do the illustrations needs to learn a thing or two about anatomy. I'm embarrassed to study in public because of the derpy expressions in every picture.
One last thing that makes this textbook bad is its lack of explanation on Chinese grammar. Perhaps this only bothers me because I'm used to Genki's great examples and information on how particles and sentence structure work in a language.
5.0 out of 5 stars
easy Chinese, Feb 12 2012
By jmk - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Integrated Chinese Level 1/Part 1 Textbook: Traditional Characters (Paperback)
bought used but it looked completely new and clean. i recommend others to buy the simplified characters book not this traditional character one because China actually uses more simplified letters then traditional words.
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