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Chinese Graded reader review: “Two Children Seeking Joy Bridge” (“两个想上天的孩子”)

Review of Chinese Graded Reader “Two Children Seeking Joy Bridge” (“两个想上天的孩子”) published by Chinese Breeze

“Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge” is a level 1 Chinese graded reader, which assumes a knowledge of 300 Chinese characters, which is suitable for someone with one year of college level Chinese.

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How do you get to Chinese fluency? Practice! Practice! Practice!

how do you get to carnegie hall practice practice practice

Jack Benny at Carnegie Hall (New York Times/Larry Morris)

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

The punchline to this old joke is:  “Practice! Practice! Practice!Read More…

Chinese Breeze: Chinese readers with original plots

chinese breeze graded readerChinese Breeze: graded Chinese readers with original stories

As much as I benefit from reading and listening to textbook dialogues, learning new vocabulary and new grammar points, a learner needs variety to make learning Chinese fun.   This is what I like about Chinese Breeze.

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