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Which Mandarin learning textbooks have the largest amount of practical exercises?
You can find some bookstores near the Elementary Schools (小學).
If you see some signs like 國小參考書, go to find 參考書 (references) or 評量題 (examinations) for the first or second grade (一、二年級). 參考書 include ...
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What is the meaning of the phrase 铁血丹心 ?
Although it looks like an idiom expression (chengyu), I believe it is actually a coined phrase, specifically for the TV adaptation of the Wuxia novel (射鵰英雄傳, 1983 TVB Hongkong) you mentioned.
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What is the name of the university in this seal?
It reads:
早稻田
大學
圖書
A Japanese Waseda University collection.
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Which book or website is recommended for learning Chinese grammar in 2022?
Pinyin rules
Integrated Chinese 4th Edition, Volume 1 Textbook:This book has a good grasp of pinyin rules. You will learn about the pronunciation of each character and the difference in the tones ...
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What's the font used in the 1st edition of the book series New Practical Chinese Reader?
To those with an eye for Chinese typefaces and calligraphy, the computer typeface you are referencing is one from the 楷體 / 楷体 kǎitǐ "regular script", adapted for 'zh-cn' Chinese (Simplified) ...
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Book and material to prepare for TOCFL "Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language"
看圖學中文語法系列（2冊）
華語文能力測驗模擬試題2:入門基礎(Band A)
華語文能力測驗模擬試題3:入門基礎(Band A)
Good luck!
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Does reading books with pronunciation written above the characters develop one's skills?
I'm asking about answers based on scientific research or your
experience.
I choose experience to answer.
In Taiwan, Students of lower grades of elementary school have a subject called 國語(in ...
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Chengyu dictionary
Swooping in eight years later, but I recently developed a free chengyu website that does almost everything you're looking for — and more. It's called the Laowai's Unofficial Chengyu Guide, and it ...
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Where can I find a graded reader with pinyin alongside the simplified characters?
All, even higher "levels" of Graded Chinese Reader books come with pinyin. With a nice grid you can put over the page to cover pinyin (or characters) if you feel like it.
https://www.purpleculture....
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Where can I find a graded reader with pinyin alongside the simplified characters?
If you don't mind, you might want Mandarin textbooks for lower grade elementary school used in China.
And some storybooks also have Pinyin on every character.
You might search jd.com or taobao.com to ...
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How to learn pronunciation effectively with help of books?
I would consider it practically impossible to learn how to pronounce words correctly in Chinese without audio. There's many obstacles:
The initial x of 需 (xū) doesn't seem to have an equivalent ...
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Jean Pasqualini's book Prisonnier de Mao
I haven't found the point about learning from one's mistakes but this is the closest Mao quote I've found:
中国监狱制度的改革与发展
“我们的监狱不是过去的监狱，我们的监狱其实是学校，也是工厂，或是农场。”
Which roughly equates to something ...
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Is the layout of the Chinese characters relevant to the meaning?
if the layout of the chinese characters is relevant to the meaning
it's a no. the meaning of chinese text does not change, in relation to the style of "character flow".
in text samples provided, the ...
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What is the sequence of the Boya Chinese textbooks?
I haven’t heard of this series before, but looking at information from the publisher (Peking University Press) and various booksellers I can see the following:
博雅汉语 = Boya Chinese (1st edition, ...
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A question about the official Chinese translation of two passages from Nietzsche's books
there’re pdf, or epub file of nietzsche’s books in simplified chinese
人性的，太人性的
on page 21 of the linked pdf
Von den ersten und letzten Dingen
is translated as “關於最初的事物與最後的事物”
瞧，這箇人
on page 29(?) of ...
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Does reading books with pronunciation written above the characters develop one's skills?
Speaking from experience, as long as you don't focus too much on the Pinyin (as in only reading the Pinyin) there shouldn't be any harm.
The Pinyin is only supposed to familiarise you to the words, ...
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关于荷爾德林的希波淋的一本中文版本
Well, Pfennig is Pfennig, (und wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt ist des Geldes wert!) but how words were and are spelled changes over time. Chinese characters also change with time. Spelling mistakes and ...
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A question about the official Chinese translation of two passages from Nietzsche's books
Herbert Grönemeyer
Und der Mensch heißt Mensch
Weil er irrt und weil er kämpft
Und weil er hofft und liebt
Weil er mitfühlt und vergibt
The translation of "menschlich" depends on what you ...
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How to literally translate this: 小人书，是一种以书的形式出版的连环画?
小人 (little people) refers to the little drawn figures of characters in the comics, not children,
小人书 (little people book) is a nickname for 连环画 (Lian Huan Hua = chained drawings), The early Chinese ...
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How to literally translate this: 小人书，是一种以书的形式出版的连环画?
小人书 = 连环画, as the audience mainly consists of children under teens.
是一种以书的形式... - is a kind/way of using book form....
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Where to find Iron John in Chinese?
You can find it in douban 读书 page, there are some 网店 selling it
https://book.douban.com/subject/23857531/
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Where to find Iron John in Chinese?
it’s out of print. however, the hong kong public library has this book, i would suggest you find someone borrow one for copying or scanning, or, . . . 😼
https://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/lib/item?id=chamo:...
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Books for learning characters through progression diagrams and glyph origins?
I suggest you try to get a sample of the books first and then decide which serves better your purpose.
I think there are mainly two type of books:
Type I: Simple learning descriptions
They are focused ...
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Does reading books with pronunciation written above the characters develop one's skills?
My experience is that I would inevitably read the pinyin and not the Chinese characters, and it's something I deliberately avoid. I also find pinyin inherently obstructive---once you've mastered HSK4,...
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Is the layout of the Chinese characters relevant to the meaning?
In Chinese, the number is syllables is quite important even in everyday speech; speakers tend to produce sentences with even numbers of syllables. As a result, I've often see them shorten two syllable ...
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What does this say?
It's an old book... I translate some basic info for you.
Title: ILLUSTRATION OF GREAT ART TRADITION
Publisher: Shanghai Publishing Co., Ltd (This company should not exist, but I haven't found the ...
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Which edition of《杜骗新书》contains modern parallels?
《江湖奇闻杜骗新书》(lit. Weird Things in the World: New Collection of Frauds) is written in a mixture of Classical and Vulgar Chinese. The Vulgar Chinese lately evolved into Modern Chinese in early 1920s (as ...
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Book and material to prepare for TOCFL "Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language"
Here’s its website for your reference
Materials:
https://www.sc-top.org.tw/english/materials.php
Also click “Mock Test” you will get online exercise and free pdf download. It’ll be interesting to ...
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Is it possible to get novels written in Chinese and English on the same page to download?
I think the moderator hit the nail on the head here by pointing out that we want to help you to be able to find what you are looking for, which often comes down to having the right keywords, i found ...
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