Learn to Read Chinese Book 1

<p><em>An orphan girl gets help from a goose. A poor family receives a magical gift. A boy is stranded alone on a ship in a storm. And two magicians perform a deadly trick.</em></p><p>Believe it or not it's possible for you to read and understand the four wonderful stories in this book even if you start off not knowing a single word of Chinese! We won't lie to you and say it will be easy but with time and patience you can certainly do it.</p><p>Each page of Chinese faces a page of pinyin (phonetic spelling) so if you don't recognize a word you can check the pinyin to see how it's pronounced. You can then look up the word's meaning in the glossary in the back of the book. A full English translation is also included.</p><p>You can also listen to a complete audiobook of all four stories available free on YouTube and downloadable from our website.</p><p>These stories are written by the best-selling writing team of Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang authors of the <em>Journey to the West </em>series of graded readers translations of Chinese classics including the <em>Dao De Jing</em> the <em>Art of War</em> and the <em>San Zi Jing</em> and lots of other great books. To learn more visit www.imagin8press.com. </p>