Christopher’s Reviews > A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese: Syntax and Discourse > Status Update

I'm probably up to around 15 mistakes caught. Most are trifling, but if I had read this book three years ago it would have really confused me.

Three transliterated names have been incorrectly rendered in the text so far. There have also been some issues of English in the body of the text, issues such that the Chinese origin of the writers seems quite apparent, but they're mild and definitely made up by the very high quality of the substance of the book. There's just one thing I'm desperately hoping will be addressed: making sense of interminable sentences

I think I'm in love. I have never before found a Chinese grammar that was really worth reading. Some are crazy enough to only give Pinyin, no 汉字! Most are built around a purely artificial Latinate framework that absolutely does not work for Chinese. Many are so artificial in their selection of sentences and fail to give any real sense of the language. This one seems to be the answer for all those problems.