Easy Peasy Chinese Workbook: Mandarin Chinese Practice for Beginners
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A practical fill-in workbook for beginners learning Mandarin Chinese with everyday words, essential vocabulary, and hands-on practice. A fascination introduction to the Chinese writing system, Easy Peasy Chinese Workbook shows you how to write more than 200 of the most useful characters. This straightforward workbook helps to develop and perfect Mandarin Chinese writing skills and is the perfect companion to DK’s Easy Peasy Chinese.
Sections follow a logical progression, starting with different character strokes and everyday words, such as “hello” and “thank you”, and progressing to the essential vocabulary needed to tell the time, order in a restaurant, or buy a train ticket. For children aged 7+ who are learning Mandarin at school, and for adults learning the language for travel, this book is ideal for beginners of all ages. Its clear modern design, inventive visuals and clear explanations make learning Chinese both accessible and fun!
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Additional information
| Publisher | DK Children, First Edition (3 Aug. 2015) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 128 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241184959 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241184950 |
| Reading age | 7 – 11 years |
| Dimensions | 14.6 x 1 x 20.8 cm |
by one_two_three
The book it a reasonably good introduction to writing characters — I bought 3 of them for myself and for my 8yo twin daughters. It should be used in conjunction with ‘Easy Peasy Chinese’ book, which has some explanations and includes CD as well. Note, that this is a VERY basic introduction — no grammar, no sentence building, just a characters. So you are not much wiser after finishing it. It is Ok as a very first step for self-learning, may be for interesting kids in Chinese , but overall I got mixed feelings.
The serious problem with this book is the way it is bound — it is quite thick for small pages and on practice pages it is difficult to write in area close to the bind. The Chinese symbols are hard to write as they are, so additional layer of complexity is annoying.
Overall I am honestly cannot decide, whether it was a worthy purchase or not.
by Rebecca Hazel
The quality of print is excellent. It leaves the reader In no doubt as to what the right order of strokes is or what the character looks like. I strongly recommend it if your target is to practice strokes. However if you need a fully comprehensive book for beginners this is not it. It is a ‘practice your strokes’ workbook.
by Litaphile
My 8 year old son loves this book. Colourful, easy to use
by Meldorf
This is a great little workbook. I’ve been learning spoken Mandarin using audio courses and Pinyin for about six months. Now I want to get famiy with the characters. This is a wonderfully logical and interesting book that I can see will get me off to a great start. Tombow brush pens (pictured) glide beautifully over the paper and don’t bleed. I’m an adult learner.
by Biv
The book is really good it shows how to start writing . The colour are fantastic. I would recommend this book the thing I like is you don’t have to rush I like to treat it as a puzzle book ????% get the book I got this book for myself.
by pipi
very easy to learn! i am a chinese , i think this book is very good and the color is attractive, the paper touch feeling is good too
by Sandra Macdougall
This is a nice little first book but the size is not helpful if you are trying to practice writing characters. As a workbook, therefore, it doesn’t work. It is useful for seeing how the characters are formed, but actually writing in the book is hard. It’s too small and the paper is too glossy, so using a brush pen is a struggle.
by Meldorf
Well designed to be easy to use with a backup cd to give correct tones.