Sinolingua's Graded Chinese Readers
Graded Chinese Reader 500 Words
Features
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback or add-in for Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people. The vocabulary in this book consists of 500 essential Chinese words, which are mainly chosen based on the first 500 Chinese words of the 1,500 high frequency words in the International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (2008).
Content
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204 pages
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1,422 unique words
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832 unique characters
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14,230 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story:
Graded Chinese Reader 1000 Words
Features
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback or add-in for Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people. The vocabulary of this book is limited to 1,000 commonly used Chinese words, mainly based on the first 1,000 high-frequency words in the "General Curriculum for International Chinese Teaching" (2008).
Content
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260 pages
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2,167 unique words
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1,036 unique characters
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38,800 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story:
Graded Chinese Reader 1500 Words
Features
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback or add-in for Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people.
Content
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338 pages
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3,224 unique words
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1,305 unique characters
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56,290 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story:
Graded Chinese Reader 2000 Words
Features
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback or add-in for Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people. The vocabulary in this book is limited to about 2000 common Chinese words, which are mainly based on the 2500 Chinese words listed in the Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus Level 5.
Content
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256 pages
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2,495 unique words
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1,123 unique characters
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38,060 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story:
Graded Chinese Reader 2500 Words
Features
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback, Kindle, or Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people.
Content
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3,615 unique words
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1,385 unique characters
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56,920 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story:
Graded Chinese Reader 3000 Words
Features
❌ no traditional character version
❌ no English translation
✔️ mp3s on CD
✔️ pinyin transcription
✔️ paperback or add-in for Pleco app
✔️ cardboard mask for covering pinyin
✔️ glossary and footnotes for less common words
Description
This series features abridged versions of stories written by contemporary Chinese writers, reflecting the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese people.
Content
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256 pages
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3,083 unique words
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1,293 unique characters
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39,430 total characters
Can I Read This?
If you are familiar with the characters on this HSK list:
Then you already know this fraction of the characters in this story: