Great book for following the development of Chinese characters and aiding memorization. The evolution of 500 common characters is traced from the original bone and bronze inscriptions in eight stages through seal, grass, free-style and regular (simplified and traditional) characters. Recommended for beginning and intermediate levels.

Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases

Reference

Li Leyi

Leyi, Li

Chengzhi, Wang

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Beijing Language Culture University Press

Chinese idiomatic phrases, including idioms, proverbs, slang words and two-part allegorical sayings, are fixed collections that are rather expressive in ordinary usages. In order to help foreign student to learn the idiomatic phrases well and improve their spoken Chinese, the book including 557 commonly used expressions and provided English translations as well as illustrative sentences accompanying with them. Through reading and pondering over the exemplified sentences, it may be possible for the readers to get familiar with those usages.

Chinese Idiomatic Phrases For Foreign Students (English and Chinese Edition)

Words, Language & Grammar

This series is meant for use ONLY in a classroom setting with lots of oral exercises under an instructor s supervision. Less dialogue oriented, with more emphasis on proper pronunciation, reading and writing. For a more conversational approach to learn

An Intensive Chinese Course: Sentence Patterns Vol 2 (English and Chinese Edition)

Zhang Hao & Xu Yejing Chen Xianchun

Basic training in sentence patterns to help students master grammatical rules and cultivate their feel for Chinese.

An Intensive Chinese Course: Sentence Patterns Vol 3 (English and Chinese Edition)

Chen Xianchun et al

Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang is a set of textbooks for an elective course of Chinese characters for foreign students without any Chinese learning experience. This set of textbook includes Reading and Writing Chinese Characters and From Characters to Words, separating in a proper way the teaching of writing Chinese characters from that of reading Chinese characters. Reading and Writing Chinese Characters has 2 volumes containing 25 lessons in total. With the help of pictures, Reading and Writing Chinese characters encourages learners to associate pictographic elements with meanings. Grouping pictophonetic characters by their pictographic elements, the book lays special emphasis on writing characters and analyzing the origin and structure of the characters, aiming at helping learners establish a cognitive construct for Chinese characters.

Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang: Part 1 (English and Chinese Edition)

Zhang Yifen

This is the workbook for Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang: Workbook of Reading and Writing Chinese Characters. Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang is a set of textbooks for an elective course of Chinese characters for foreign students without any Chinese learning experience. This set of textbook includes Reading and Writing Chinese Characters and From Characters to Words, separating in a proper way the teaching of writing Chinese characters from that of reading Chinese characters. Reading and Writing Chinese Characters has 2 volumes containing 25 lessons in total. With the help of pictures, Reading and Writing Chinese characters encourages learners to associate pictographic elements with meanings. Grouping pictophonetic characters by their pictographic elements, the book lays special emphasis on writing characters and analyzing the origin and structure of the characters, aiming at helping learners establish a cognitive construct for Chinese characters.

Learning Chinese Characters from Ms. Zhang: Exercise Book (English and Chinese Edition)

Simplified Chinese/English edition of Chinese Paradise Teacher's Book 1 by Liu fu hua. In Simplified Chinese/English. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Chinese Paradise-The Fun Way to Learn Chinese Teacher's Book 1 (Chinese Edition)

Children's Books

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WANG, Wei

Liu Fuhua

Education & Reference

Simplified Chinese/English edition of Chinese Paradise Teacher's Book 2 by Liu fu hua. In Simplified Chinese/English. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Chinese Paradise-The Fun Way to Learn Chinese Teacher's Book 2 (Chinese Edition)

Introduces 130 characters in a systematic approach using pictures to explain character origins. To be used as a supplementary text w/Sentence Patterns.

An Intensive Chinese Course: Chinese Characters & Reading Vol 1 (English and Chinese Edition)

Zhang Huifen

CHEN, Xianchun

This two-volume, inter-level series off ers a practical approach to learning Chinese for business. Lessons are setup to parallel the experience of an American businessman coming to China. Each chapter covers a specifi c topic in the journey: Arriving at t

A Business Trip to China: Conversation & Application Vol I (2 Vol. Set (English and Chinese Edition)

Zhou, Ming

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