New Practical Chinese Reader 1: Workbook

New Practical Chinese Reader #1.3

by Liu Xun

Compiled under the sponsorship of the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOTCFL) and in consultation with the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Guidelines, the New Practical Chinese Reader (NPCR) series is designed to help native English speakers easily learn Chinese. Based on the time-tested Practical Chinese Reader (PCR), the revised and updated NPCR combines the grammatical strengths of the old PCR with contemporary material and more emphasis on learning to use Chinese in everyday conversation.

NPCR consists of 70 lessons in six volumes, covering beginning to intermediate levels, for three years of instruction. Features include balanced training in speaking, pronounciation, grammar, and vocabulary; gradual increases in difficulty, and a cyclical approach to learning with constant review of language structures, functions, and cultural knowledge; an abundance of practice material suitable for students to use inside and outside the classroom; and a new, systematic approach to the teaching of Chinese characters.

Workbook with MP3 CD

Genres: China, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Reference, Language

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2002

About the author

Xun Liu is a professor of history at Rutgers University.

Reviews

[Katy McCallion]

Lots of translating, writing, speaking practise and some more reading practise and writing characters. It's very useful to have a Chinese dictionary handy as some characters are not translated or you might have forgotten the pinyin or the meaning. I use
https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-eng...
or
https://www.zdic.net/
and
https://chineseinput.net/handwriting....
if I forget the pinyin.

[Rebecca]

Didn't use it much.

[Miriam]

I use this book at my chinese class. I recomand it.

[Joseph Santiago]

I used this book to learn Chinese while in China. It was the first actual workbook I completed and I enjoyed the experience so much I told myself I would be conversational in mandarin. I'm not where I want to be yet but I do recommend this book.

Mr. Joe

[Josephine]

Not the best book serie to work with.
as good as undoable without a teacher.