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| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 1 of 4 14 March 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
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After six months of intensive Mandarin study, I feel I can now read without much pain, although quite slowly. I find it the best way to review characters, and since I am sick of learning lists of words, it is also a great way to learn vocabulary in context. That's exactly the method I used when I was learning Russian: I used to buy and read all those simple and quite addicting detective novels.
So what is there to read in Mandarin, freely available on the net, and not too difficult? I am looking for interesting, simple novels and texts of Chinese and foreign literature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 14 March 2010 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
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小王子 (The little prince).
There's a thread here somewhere which links to it (and has audio recordings), but google will do too. That's the best one for starters, imho. If you have access to Chinese books, you may also want to try to find 哆啦A梦 (Doraemon). They're very simple and quite enjoable. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 3 of 4 14 March 2010 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Pyx, I will definitely read 小王子. I haven't heard of 哆啦A梦, but I will take a look if I can find them.
That's it? Isn't there anything more worth reading in Mandarin? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5734 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 14 March 2010 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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Why don't you first read XWZ, and then look for more? ;)
There is more of course, but I'm not sure which level you're at. And what you're interested in. Since you mentioned detective novels, I can tell you that I am, for example, at the moment reading 福尔摩斯 = Sherlock Holmes, which is very good. It's relatively hard to read, though. How many characters and words do you know? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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