Chinese Stories for Language Learners: Elementary (Free Audio) – Bilingual book of folktales, idioms, fables, proverbs, myths and modern fun stories (Chinese Story Series)
£14.20
Do you know that the most effective and fun way of learning Mandarin Chinese is through story reading and listening? Do you also know that the key to building up vocabulary is through reading broadly and extensively?
Start your learning journey with a rich variety of Chinese stories from ancient to modern China. Learn from 25 fun stories with expanded learning content, written and selected specially for elementary-level students (HSK1-3). A bilingual book of Chinese folk tales, idioms, fables, proverbs, myths, and modern fun stories.
With this book, you will:
- Build up and expand essential Chinese vocabulary
- Master 50 Chinese sentence patterns with examples in context
- Uncover the original stories of Chinese traditional festivals
- Discover life lessons and wisdom from China’s greatest classics
- Learn witty Chinese idioms and proverbs and their original stories
- Gain powerful Chinese cultural knowledge and insights
This is a unique learning journey full of fun stories. Each story is structured to assist your learning whilst making it entertaining and memorable! Enjoy and learn with:
- Bilingual story in Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, and English
- Chinese-only version of the story for self-assessment
- Key Vocabulary list to help you learn and review
- Sentence Patterns with examples in context
- Engaging activities or exercises to help you to reflect
- Learning Tips and Culture Corner to enhance your understanding
- FREE AUDIO, recorded by native speakers, to help with listening and speaking
Special Bonus: MP3 audio files can be downloaded and are also available on the YouTube playlist
This book will serve as your best friend in this exciting Chinese learning adventure.
Be bold, dream big, and believe in yourself!
Note: Paperback is black and white print / eBook in full color
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Additional information
| Publisher | Independently published (6 Nov. 2022) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 157 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8360002581 |
| Dimensions | 16.99 x 0.91 x 24.41 cm |
by Daniel
Very happy with this story book, beautifully designed, concise and easy to follow! The stories touch many aspects across ancient and modern China, many stories are famous Chinese classics with folktales, myths, well-known Chinese idioms and proverbs, as well as modern stories which are very entertaining to read! All keywords and sentence patterns are not only highlighted, but summarised at the end of each story. All stories come with bilingual versions with pinyin, Chinese, English and Chinese-only versions, plus culture notes, key vocabulary lists, sentence patterns, which make it easy to learn and review. This is a great method to learn Chinese language and culture! The audio files can be downloaded, and are also available on a YouTube playlist, the recordings are done by native speakers too, really useful to help to practice Chinese listening and speaking. I also like the graphic images of these stories! This is such a great Chinese story book that I have been waiting for a long time!
by Mr. P. W. Challinor
The book contains 25 short stories with the additional Pinyin and English in the main text. All the stories have been written to use modern Chinese that is currently in everyday usage. Each story also contains “Culture Corner” explaining some cultural background aspects, plus the key vocabulary, and also key sentence patterns. Lastly there is the Hanzi Chinese Character only version of the story if you really want to test yourself. Comes with free audio which is spoken by native Chinese speakers, the pace is aimed for elementary speakers and is very clear and easy to understand. I highly recommend this book, it is a really useful self-contained study aid with additional learning tips, all the stories are interesting and use modern text.
by Jennifer Gade
This is a very good book. It comes with PinYin to help pronunciation and English translation helps understanding. There are also highlights on key vocabulary and learning tips on each story.
by David, Wales
Well thought out – the stories are not too long and engaging enough to provide meaningful context for learning and practice. Probably the best resource I’ve found.
by Geoff
Currently enjoying another set of fun and engaging stories with useful vocab. This one’s similar to the other Chinese conversations books but the stories are more focused on Chinese myths and legends etc. This series probably of particular interest to anyone interested in Chinese culture as well as language learning (particularly Chengyu!).
by lissy
The book is well laid out with both parallel text (with hanzi, pinyin and English translation) and pure hanzi versions of each story. There is also an explanation (in English!) of the part the story plays in wider Chinese culture – useful perhaps for developing a more idiomatic Chinese when speaking.
The style of the stories is close to Aesop’s Fables in the West – though they are all authentically Chinese. So it is probably not going to be directly useful for developing conversational Chinese. But it’s still a great resource for both children and adults learning Chinese and wanting to get more sense of the culture and folklore as well as the language itself.
by Daniel
This is a wonderful book, full of great stories of different genres. Each story has several grammatical key points clearly explained and there is also a full vocabulary list. There are also character-with-pinyin texts as well as character only versions of the text. There are also plenty of sections on chinese culture for each story, which provide great context. This is such good value. I can thoroughly recommend this.
by Amazon Customer
I purchased this for my 9 year old daughter and she is enjoying reading the stories and at the same time she is learning Chinese with this book. The book is well written and the front page of the book is so nice. I would recommend this book