Review

我非常喜欢这个系列。 可是那个名城古迹部分非常无聊。而且有的传统故事的主题重复，所以我觉的这本书就是还可以。

Great book, but the kindle version is a mess, and the organization seemed haphazard. Of course that comes with the territory for a book of such scope.

The inline pinyin is annoying, the translations are sloppy, but this is still the best graded reader currently available. Rather than inventing stories with a limited vocabulary, the authors simplified real stories for academic use. As such, the series deals with subjects that Chinese authors want to write about, and is much better for it. The stories are interesting, the language is not too advanced, I would recommend this to any but the most beginning Chinese language students.

还可以

最后的故事有意思，好笑，但是其它的都太无聊了.

Roast guinea pig - just the sort of word I need to be learning.

Another decent graded reader from Blaine Ray. It’s pretty clearly originally meant for Spanish though. The conversations go something like: “I really like your mom’s Mexican food…. and Chinese 饺子” or “Let’s have a celebration on Cinco de Mayo, and eat Chinese food!” 而已

It’s the next best thing after 汉语风。 I find it hard to believe that this book is meant for students with only 100 hours of instruction, but it had a good level of new vocabulary and an interesting story as far as graded readers go. Just wish it didn’t have pinyin in line with the 汉字, and where’s the audio CD?

Lots of 汉字 typos. Covers material also in other Cheng and Tsui books, has lots of useless vocabulary and not much actual text. No CD. All in all, there are a lot of better alternatives out there.

This was useful as an introduction to 部首. The most helpful part was explanations of部首旁 with their associated radicals. But a book that is simply a list of radicals should definitely have all 200+ and not skip the last 70!