Thread: What's the best beginner's Text?
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kudra
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chicago
Posts: 473
I'd suggest email to instructors at some top universities. Ask what text they use for intro
courses.
Some titles I used or heard of
Spoken Standard Chinese/Written Standard Chinese vols 1, 2 Huang and Stimson
(I used this in the 80s, and it was used at Yale, where it was written, as recently as 6 years ago)
Integrated Chinese
Chinese Odyssey
Author: Xueying Wang, Li-chuang Chi, and Liping Feng
I haven't looked at so I have no opinion of Integrated Chinese, or Chinese Odyssey.
This would be a good project, which I don't have that much interest or time to do:
Assemble a list of texts used in years 1, 2, and 3 at various universities
Columbia, Yale, Middlebury, Seton Hall, Michigan, etc.
Noted added: Actually I've started this project, sent some emails. I'll post when I have a useful
table
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