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Fun with Chinese
Chinese for Youth Level 1: Chinese Character Flash Cards These are
sturdy cards with English on one side and traditional Chinese characters on the
other. Comes in two boxes.
#7144X $19.99
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 Chinese
in a Flash Volume 1 by Philip Yungkin Lee - This set includes 448
flash cards featuring the most common Mandarin Chinese vocabulary used in
everyday speech. The character in its traditional form is on the front of each
card. The back includes its pronunciation, English translation, and other
valuable information. A sample sentence is included to reinforce correct grammar
and usage. The set comes with a booklet that explains how to use the cards, a
list of characters, and various indexes for easy look-up.
Their convenient, portable size makes it easy to carry them with you to learn
and test yourself during spare moments throughout the day. Chinese in a Flash
Volume 1 has a full range of features to help beginners and intermediate
learners through character recognition, vocabulary recognition, revision and
testing. It includes indexes by radical, stroke count, and alphabetically by
pinyin romanization.
#3613 $24.95 $21.99
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 Chinese Lullabies CD - The
Beijing Angelic Choir sings melodies collected from different regions of China
and Taiwan. The soothing music will lull babies and adults alike to sleep! It is
also nice to play as peaceful background music.
While listeners won't learn Chinese from listening to this recording, it is
an enjoyable exposure to gentle Asian music.
Songs are in Mandarin and
other provincial dialects.
1. You-You-Zha (Man)
2. Clear Moon, Quiet Winds (Northeastern China)
3. Hammock Hanging Between Betel Trees (Guangdong)
4. Puyuma Lullaby (Taiwan)
5. Tu-Jia Lullaby (Hunan)
6. A-Ni-Qie-Er (Hani Tribe, Yunnan)
7. Kitty, Stop Meowing (Anhul)
8. Li Lullaby (Hainan)
9. Lullaby Of The Fisherman's Family (Guangxi)
10. Tibetan Lullaby (Western Tibet)
11. My Brother, Pu-Ru-Lai (Inner Mongolia)
12. A-Lai, Ba-Lang-Mu (Ulgur)
Length: 48 minutes.
#0640XX $16.98 15.99
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The
Dragon Painter retold by Rosie Dickins, illustrated by John Nez - Chang
paints the best animal pictures in all of China. But when it comes to dragons,
he has a problem. Why is he afraid to paint in the dragons' eyes? Find out, in
this lively retelling of a traditional Chinese story.
Hardcover, 48 pages. 7.5"x5.25" Ages 6+.
#2750 $8.99
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The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac by Dawn Casey,
illustrated by Anne Wilson - Which animal will win the race and get the
first year of the Chinese calendar named after them?
Race long with Rat, Monkey, Dragon, and their companions while discovering the
origin of the Chinese Zodiac. This bright and colorful book includes intriguing
notes about the Chinese calendar, the festivals, and the animal that rules each
year.
#6770X $16.99 $14.99
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 Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A
Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Nina Simonds,
Leslie Swartz, Meilo So (Illustrator), Children's Museum of Boston.
This wonderful book presents delicious recipes, traditional stories, and
hands-on family activities associated with several major Chinese celebrations:
The Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival, Qing Ming and the Cold Foods
Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Learn to make
yummy sticky rice balls, make paper lanterns to decorate your house
during the New Year, and read stories about ancient characters such as Qu Yuan.
My daughter and I have been taking Chinese language lessons with another family,
and one of the best parts of the class is learning about another culture. Just
learning the language has been insightful, but our teacher has also introduced
us to Chinese food, calligraphy, and traditions. It has been a terrific
experience.
If you would like to introduce Chinese culture to your family, Moonbeams,
Dumplings & Dragon Boats is an excellent resource. I also highly recommend a
visit to a Chinatown. The Chinatowns in San Francisco and New York may be the
best known, but other large cities have Chinese neighborhoods. When we traveled
to Independence Hall in Pennsylvania, we also visited Philadelphia's Chinatown
and dined at a lovely restaurant, which I found on the internet when planning
our trip. We've visited Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown many times and had our
first experience with dim sum there. The last couple of years we've even marched
in the New Year's parade with a local kung fu school, and my husband and
daughter have performed kung fu to an appreciative audience (so cool!)While
the book is designed for ages 4-8, it a fun book for anyone wanting to learn
about Chinese culture. It is ideal for families, especially since young children
will need adult assistance with most of the recipes.
Throughout the book are colorful illustrations and Chinese writing. The back of
the book contains a list of resources and a pronunciation guide to Chinese .
Ages 4-8. Hardcover, 80 pages.
#9839 $21.00 $13.99
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 Reading
& Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition by William McNaughton
has been the best-selling standard reference text for foreign students and
teachers of Chinese for the last 25 years. Now completely revised with
modern (simplified) characters, it draws on the lessons learned from the use of
the book in classrooms to provide a convenient and up-to-date introduction to
the Chinese writing system. Materials are organized in units of progressive
difficulty and complexity, with clear definitions of the individual characters
presented in a logical and systematical sequence.
For each of the basic 1,067 characters, the pronunciation and core meanings are
given, along with examples of its use in common compounds and a stroke-order
diagram showing how to write it correctly. Memorization tips and
cross-references to look-alike characters are also provided. Charts of modern
and traditional radicals, necessary to look up words in comprehensive Chinese
dictionaries are printed inside the front and back covers.
This new edition focuses on the internationally recognized test of proficiency
in Chinese, the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK). All 800 characters
prescribed for Level A are covered here, and the 1400+ Levels B and C characters
are covered concisely.
All of the prescribed vocabulary for Levels A-C of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi
is included among the example compounds.
Paper, 336 pages. 8.9"x6"x.9".
#5091X $24.95 $19.99
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 What Character is That? An Easy-Access
Dictionary of 5,000 Chinese Characters by Ping-gam Go - Our family's Chinese
teacher, Wendy, has a large number of Chinese dictionaries on her bookshelf.
Why? Because no one dictionary can answer a student's every question. That said,
we've found this Chinese-English dictionary the one we turn to first when
confronted with one of the many Chinese characters that we don't know. It's
Wendy's favorite as well.
Chinese radicals are listed alphabetically by their English name. To find a
character and its definition, you look it up under its radical. If you do not
already know the name of the character's radical, you can find it listed in the
front of the book where radicals are grouped by the number of strokes. If you
aren't already aware of the usefulness of knowing radicals, you will find out
soon!
We still occasionally need to use another dictionary (Oxford Concise Dictionary), but I much
prefer this one.
Paper, 512 pages.
#1359 $19.95 $14.99
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Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey through
Chinese Culture, Language and Cuisine by A. Zee is a charming book that helps
the reader learn Chinese characters and culture through a study of cuisine. It
was recommended by our Chinese teacher, and I found it not only a fascinating
way to learn the language but also to understand a civilization that certainly
deserves more study than it receives in the west (at least where I live).