Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Series: Level 1: 300 Word Level: 我可以请你跳舞吗?: Wǒ kěyǐ qǐng nǐ tiàowǔ ma?: Can I Dance With You?

by Yuehua Liu, Chengzhi Chu

Chinese Breeze is a large and innovative Chinese graded reader series that will offer over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for college and secondary school Chinese language learners from beginning to advanced levels (including AP Chinese students), offering them a new opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence, and increasing motivation for Chinese learning. Each title comes with an audio CD containing recordings of the text. In simplified characters, with pinyin and English in vocabulary lists. There are also short exercises and answer keys at the end of each book. CONTENT OF THIS A smart young man suddenly gets into big trouble. He just fell in love with a pretty girl, but now the police come and want to arrest him. The bank he works for just lost ten million dollars, and the police list him as a suspect. Of course he is not the robber! He even knows who did it. But can he find evidence to prove it to the police? It's all just too much. Also, will he be able to see his girlfriend again?

Genres: China

59 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

这是我第一次完全读了本中文书。很高兴。

[Heather Clitheroe · Rating 3 out of 5]

What kind of IT manager sets the bank security password to his birthdate (and his mother's birthdate)?! I think we can all agree more than one crime was committed...

A good reader - a nice mix of new characters and familiar ones from the Integrated Chinese textbooks, even if the story is a bit silly.

[Mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was part romance part mystery. A girl who was maid to a woman who was manager of the bank fell in love with one of the other bank managers but he was accused of stealing money from the bank and had to go on the run to prove his innocence. It was quite silly and there was a lot of computer espionage that was nothing like how computers actually work. But for that it did give a lot of good vocabularly about computers and the internet which aren't covered in most textbooks (or at least weren't in the ones when I started learning over five years ago). The plot was silly but I found myself getting caught up in it anyway. The nice thing about these is there's some lovley grammer structures that are repeated lots you really become familiar with them.

[Trace · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was great for the purpose of learning to read at a good rate. The story itself made me want to hit my head against a wall. I feel bad giving it 2 stars, but the story was that stupid. Nonetheless, I can read a little more Chinese after having read this little 300 character book.

[Estefanía R · Rating 3 out of 5]

It´s a good option to start reading in hanzi without the pinyin. The story is attractive and the pacing is good.