Read Chinese

Learn to read more than 100 essential Chinese characters with lessons that build your vocabulary one character at a time and include more than 1,650 practice sentences and phrases. The characters in this book were selected to expose you to a variety of grammar patterns and common words. Your lessons begin with the simplest character ? (one), then ? (person) and ? (generic-noun-type marker). With these characters you can read the phrase ????(One person). The fourth character is ? (woman, female), which allows you to read ????? (One woman). The fifth character is ? (son, child) which can be combined with ? to form the sixth character ? (good). Given those you can read simple sentences like the following: ???? (One is good.) ????? (A good person.) ????? (A person is good.) ?????? (A good woman.) And so on. In order to help you learn to decompose and recognize characters, the stroke order, traditional (long) form if any, meaning, and components of each new character are introduced first. The lessons also contain activities to help you remember characters and vocabulary through periodic repetition, as well as reading comprehension exercises. When you finish this book you will know a little more than 28 percent of the characters you will encounter in any given text on average.

• | Author: Clinton Sheppard
• | Publisher: Clinton Sheppard
• | Publication Date: Nov 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1732029814
• | ISBN-13: 9781732029811