 | Learning Chinese Characters: v. 1 by Alison Matthews
Buy new: £14.43 / Used from: £16.94 If you buy one book to help you learn chinese characters, make it this one. It provides a system for learning the first 800 characters that is both easy to use and very effective. Essential.
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 | Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £5.71 Excellent beginner's dictionary, User friendly, and includes useful sections on measure words and other items missing from most dictionaries. circa 15 000 entries
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 | Chinese Character Fast Finder by Laurence Matthews
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £8.19 A real time saver. Looking up characters you don't know is slow and frustrating. This book provides an easy to use method for the top 3000 characters - all the HSK level 1 to 4 characters included
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 | A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners by Richard Xiao
Buy new: £17.52 / Used from: £14.91 The top 5000 words in Chinese, organised both alphabetically and by frequency, with sample sentences for each one. Typeface a bit small, but a wonderful resource.
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 | Chinese-English Dictionary (ABC Chinese Dictionary Ser) by DEFRANCIS
Buy new: £29.40 / Used from: £20.11 An alphabetic pinyin to english (only) dictionary. If you know or can guess a character pronunciation (which comes with experience) this is by far the fastest way to look up words. Over 70,000 entries
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 | Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks) by Yip Po-Ching
Buy new: £17.19 / Used from: £15.60 Clear, well laid out, lots of sample sentences, and exercises at end of each chapter with comprehensive solutions at end of book.
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 | Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars) by Yip Po-Ching
Buy new: £17.48 / Used from: £14.90 A more advanced grammar text. Same advantages as the 'basic' text. Between them they provide a comprehensive guide.
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 | Graded Chinese Reader 1
Buy new: £37.23 / Used from: £9.17 Finding 'doable' texts is a real problem for beginners. Texts that are too difficult are immensely fustrating. This book contains short stories using only HSK A characters. An mp3 reading is included.
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 | Graded Chinese Reader 2
Buy used from: £9.24 A more advanced reader, using more characters, with the same plus points as the level 1 reader.
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 | Making out in Chinese (Making Out (Tuttle)) by Ray Daniels
Buy new: £6.75 / Used from: £1.00 A useful complement to the 'formal' language texts. Lots of colloquial expressions. Stuff you don't get in the dictionaries.
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