Learn to Read Chinese Book 2 — Jeff Pepper

Learn to Read Chinese Book 2

Learn to Read Chinese Book 1

Learn to Read Chinese Book 3

A young boy shares a little house in Beijing with 23 cats His friend comes to visit but the two of them can t sit down can t study and can t even eat dinner together because of all the cats What to do The answer which involves a very large dog will surprise and delight you This wonderful little tale is for beginning Chinese students of all ages Its tiny vocabulary of just 101 words is taken from the HSK1 list of words used to teach beginning students of Chinese Each page of Simplified Chinese is faced by an opposite page of pinyin phonetic spelling so if a reader gets stuck on an unfamiliar word they can check it against the pinyin A complete glossary and English translation is in the back of the book and a free audiobook is available on YouTube and can be downloaded from the Imagin8 Press website Twenty Three Cats is written by Jeff Pepper best selling author of the multi volume Journey to the West series for beginning and intermediate Chinese readers and many other books including innovative translations of the Chinese classics Dao De Jing San Zi Jing and The Art of War Tanıtım Bülteninden

The story of Mulan the young girl who joins the army to save her family and her country is at least 1500 years old Over the centuries it has inspired dozens of poems plays novels songs and more recently graphic novels TV shows and films The details of the story vary but the core is always the same a young girl living with her family in a small Chinese village learns that the army requires each family to contribute one man to fight invaders from the North To save her elderly father she disguises herself as a young man and enlists in the army she excels at fighting strategy and leadership and rises through the ranks the war ends successfully she is recognized as a hero and is offered rewards by the Emperor she declines the rewards and humbly chooses to return to her family and take up the traditional life of a village woman This wonderful little book consists of just 30 six line verses and lets beginning students enjoy a great story while also learning to read Simplified Chinese It is written in a 240 word vocabulary using fewer than 300 different characters Proper nouns are underlined and new words that are not in the HSK3 standard vocabulary are defined on the page where they first appear Each page of Chinese also contains a pinyin romanized spelling version and an English translation The pinyin is also useful for looking up word definitions in the glossary A complete audiobook version is available free on YouTube and can also be downloaded from the Imagin8 Press website Tanıtım Bülteninden