BEGINNING CHINESE READER JOHN DEFRANCIS PDF

Beginning Chinese Reader, Part 1 has 13 ratings and 2 reviews. C. said: Never read this, but this is how my father learned Chinese. He highly recommends. While Beginning Chinese Reader was primarily intended as a complement to the Beginning Chinese textbook also by DeFrancis, it can stand. Sometimes I feel a bit like some kind of apostle regarding Mr. DeFrancis’ work, most especially his Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced.

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He is certainly the grandaddy of Chinese graded readers. There are an umpteen number of discussions on other readers like the Practical Chinese Reader series and the like, which do look quite good, but which in my most humble opinion pale in comparison to the masterpiece of Chinese pedagogy that constitute the three-volume reader series by Dr.

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Well you’ve certainly convinced me. Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. It’s a very different feeling from when I had to consciously try to figure those things out! We hope you’ll join us.

I don’t know, all I did to find out about vefrancis series was simply bang “Chinese reader” into Amazon. Still, something to keep in mind. The Dawn of Slavic Alexander M.

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Return to Book Page. Plus, learning Traditional first and switching to Simplified later on is a whole lot easier to do than the other way around.

Beginning Chinese Reader, Part 1 by John DeFrancis

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At the risk of answering my begihning question, I’ll try and preempt a couple of possible answers to the question: Not sure how faithful it is to the original if it is in fact based on the begjnning readers. Advanced Chinese Yanfang Tang. It does not assume constant and prior exposure to Chinese.

There are support books, and study guides, and whatnot to help your learning, but they aren’t necessary. Through these books though, at least I could still make some progress.

Beginning Chinese Reader, Part II, Second Edition

As an example the Chinese school where I teach, over the course of 15 years we have changed textbooks two or three times. Published September 10th by Yale University Press first published While continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials published before the adoption of the simplified for This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in Check out the top books of the year on our page Best Books of The majority, or at least a good percentage, of Mandarin learners seem to focus on simplified because it is the official set of Mainland China, where Mandarin is most widely and natively spoken.

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Talking Brazilian Mario A. I own the entire set of the DeFrancis readers and I can tell you Encounters is nothing at all like the original.

In HK textbooks are revised every year, making it impossible for kids to use old books. Open Preview See a Problem? Never read this, but this is how my father learned Chinese. Sign In Sign Up.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Lula added it Jun 20, I think Yale University press would do well to publish electronic copies of the readers. I think the new ways are here to stay. My point is simply that being relatively unavailable, and visually unappealing, why would anyone choose DeFrancis books over more modern books which they may see first-hand in a bookshop?

Nathan Cain added it May 02, Ramathael added it Jul 05, I haven’t seen them myself. This is very useful for people who don’t have the time for more dedicated options.

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