Chineasy. Giorno per giorno

This is a great starting point for anyone wishing to learn Mandarin Chinese. The author presented the language clearly and concisely. The author gives a good well-rounded approach to learning. You're going to learn a lot of vocabulary but there is a method to the madness. Shaolan Hseuh starts with a Leggi tutto

I had very high hopes for this book after viewing the promotional videos on Youtube (TedX Talk, etc). As it turns out, all the simple Chinese characters featured in the promo videos (such as 'person', 'mountain' 'fire', etc) were chosen for obvious reasons. In reality, I've began to notice that the p Leggi tutto

My favorite baby’s first language is Mandarin, and the family group chat switches between English and Mandarin. Anticipating years of such messages, I decided to learn some Mandarin. The hard parts of learning Mandarin are obvious to outsiders: characters and tones. This book makes the easy parts mo Leggi tutto

很好 As a beginner learning mandarin 中文， this book works well as an additional resource. It's well presented and easy to flip through, and although there may be some subtle mature content (such as telling the difference between 嬲和嫐) it's great for all audiences! I really enjoyed going through this book Leggi tutto

Very pictorial book which can be finished in the bookshop. I love learning languages. The book fulfills my interest in Mandarin.

I got the book because I was going to Hong Kong and have always been fascinated by the Chinese written characters. Thirty years ago I took an adult ed class and found that I was a dunce at hearing or reproducing tones, but I did learn a couple of hundred characters. Interestingly even though I am a v Leggi tutto

I haven't actually finished this book yet...but I have started reading it, and I'm enjoying it so much that I wanted to get my review written now. I'd never really intended to try to learn Chinese before (I'm having a hard enough time with German and it uses basically the same letters as English, wi Leggi tutto

Picked up an ARC at Book Expo because I used to own a translation company & the cover interested me. This book is great. Yes, it's geared for children, but the way it embeds the characters inside the object they describe not only helps readers understand the nature of Chinese writing, but also gives Leggi tutto