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Sensible Chinese: How to Learn Chinese
This short eBook combines some of the best beginner's articles from SensibleChinese.com to help you orientate and power through the early stages of learning the language.
If you are within the first year of study you'll find useful tips to help your Chinese along.
Each chapter includes practical advice as well as links to additional resources like free posters and vocabulary lists.
Contents
1. Talk from Day 1
2. Work out Why you are Learning Chinese
3. Pronunciation and Pinyin
4. Tackling the Tones
5. Getting your phone/computer set up for Chinese
6. Pattern based grammar
7. Radicals (ie. the 200 "pieces" ALL Chinese characters are made out of)
8. Sound-Meaning Characters (ie. how to guess the meaning AND pronunciation of 95% of characters)
Companion
In addition to the text of the book there's a set of free online companion resources that you can access.
The website
- a complete 2 hour long pinyin pronunciation lesson with native recordings and interactive tests
- useful beginner's articles about learning Chinese
- detailed guides about how to set up Chinese keyboards on your phone and computer
- how to use a Chinese digital dictionary
- a complete Chinese language resource list
- lists of the most common 1500 characters and the most common Chinese words
- additional free eBooks for beginners
- and a bunch more! A treasure trove for early learners of the Chinese language!
If you are within the first year of study you'll find useful tips to help your Chinese along.
Each chapter includes practical advice as well as links to additional resources like free posters and vocabulary lists.
Contents
1. Talk from Day 1
2. Work out Why you are Learning Chinese
3. Pronunciation and Pinyin
4. Tackling the Tones
5. Getting your phone/computer set up for Chinese
6. Pattern based grammar
7. Radicals (ie. the 200 "pieces" ALL Chinese characters are made out of)
8. Sound-Meaning Characters (ie. how to guess the meaning AND pronunciation of 95% of characters)
Companion
In addition to the text of the book there's a set of free online companion resources that you can access.
The website
- a complete 2 hour long pinyin pronunciation lesson with native recordings and interactive tests
- useful beginner's articles about learning Chinese
- detailed guides about how to set up Chinese keyboards on your phone and computer
- how to use a Chinese digital dictionary
- a complete Chinese language resource list
- lists of the most common 1500 characters and the most common Chinese words
- additional free eBooks for beginners
- and a bunch more! A treasure trove for early learners of the Chinese language!
41 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 19, 2015
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