This is the blurb from a story that was written for Chinese learners. Chinese Breeze have written many stories and graded them for beginners to advanced readers. Read the blurb below which is from one of their beginner level books and see how you do. As you can read below, the writing style has a [...]
A beginner's story with lots of useful words and simple sentence structures. Read through slowly and pronounce each character fully, it's vital to start slowly so you can start to develop your tones. To improve your pronunciation then you can listen to the voice recording underneath the text to help you. There are also some questions [...]
Here is another story for beginners, featuring some nice easy sentences and words for us to learn. It is worth mentioning that the actual text has pinyin printed above it, but I feel that pinyin is too distracting for English speakers. Our eyes will always naturally gravitate towards the letters instead of looking at the [...]
This story is for children but is by no means for beginners. There are some phrases that are not often seen and a couple of useful idioms to be learnt. We all know that foxes are sly and clever, the Chinese also have this idea and fox (狐狸) can be used to describe a sly [...]
This is a conversation from one of the most famous Chinese films and one that most people have heard of - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The name in Chinese is 卧虎藏龙 which is an idiom meaning "concealed talent". Let's look at some of the key words that come up not only in this conversation but the movie [...]
A beginners text written by a student in Grade 1. Has lots of nice, easy terminology that can be used immediately in your everyday life (providing you know someone who understand Chinese, otherwise you're going to sound pretty crazy). Let's begin by looking at some key words. As this is a beginner's text then the [...]
