The Moon Sculpture Left Behind (with CD) (Chinese Breeze 750-word Level) (English and Chinese Edition) Paperback – August 15, 2013

Just like Painted Skin and The Third Eye, this is great for practicing reading. I have also tried reading Chinese novels, and I can do it with work but you don't get the same level of reinforcement of vocabulary and grammar. Each book appears to pick some grammatical structures, and uses it multiple times to reinforce it. The only issue I have with this one is that my version had a lot more typos than the other two I've read. It failed to underline some proper names, improperly numbered a new vocab word once, and other little things which were mildly distracting.Hoping they make more advanced books soon. My Chinese vocabulary is around 2000-2500, so I already knew most of the words.

This series is truly a godsend for anyone who is learning Mandarin Chinese. I love that I can enjoy this story in Mandarin without translation but at the same time, learn Mandarin vocabulary. The vocabulary is often repeated so often in the story that you can't help but add it to your active vocabulary. My only complaint is that the series is yet to be completed and for the length of the books, I would hope to see more of them coming out more quickly. But oh well. Otherwise, a great companion as a study but more than that, its actually an interesting read and is quite surprisingly not childish in nature even though, you may expect something of a childish nature from an early reader.

I’ve learnt Chinese language for many years, and during all these years is hard to keep recognizing Chinese characters, this book really helps you practice many basic and intermediate characters, the story is interesting and funny, and the cd helps you practice your pronunciation as well.

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Overall this series is great but this book was so boring I couldn't finish it. Get "The Painted Skin". That is a fantastic book!!

For the most part I am a fan of the Chinese Breeze series, as the quiz questions are solidly useful, and the use of proper names (which can trip me up) is kept to a minimum. But plotwise this book was a fail. The chapter with the two friends' excruciating list of boring activities and many repetitions of how their friendship was getting deeper was mind-numbing. The HSK vocabulary list is better plotted than this book. By the way, their friendship gets deeper.Another reviewer has recommended "The Painted Skin" (another Chinese Breeze book at the same level), and I wholly agree. It's gripping!

This is a terrific series. I have used many means to learn Chinese characters: fun little introductions, college textbooks, copy books, Tuttle books, cell phone apps as I walk around Beijing, and I am grateful to all. But the one that has taught me the most is also the most fun, the Chinese Breeze series. I have read all but Painted Skin and I will begin that tomorrow.Moon Sculpture is a fun story of college chums with some 20th century history of China. Jack was born in the US while his father was born on the Chinese mainland and mostly raised in Taiwan. Jack speaks Chinese with his grandfather but is not so fluent as he'd like. With the period of opening Jack and his father and grandfather recover ties to the mainland, helped by Jack's friend 毛步康 from China who he met studying math at a university in England. By happy chance they learned scuba diving there in their free time.The CD has a problem though that stands out by level 3. It has a slow speed reading helpful to some learners. But it also has a purportedly normal speed reading which is really much slower and more distinctly aimed at non-Chinese ears than any ordinary person you will hear in China. It is far from normal pacing or intonation. Sure it is better than my own pronunciation. But it is so unlike what I hear in China (mostly Beijing and Taiyuan) that I cannot listen to it. So I never use the CDs.For reading, these are a fantastic resource.

For people who want to read fluently at a good level with minimal need to refer to a dictionary, this series is brilliant. The stories are very Chinese, some are quite gripping if perhaps rather naive, and always with a strong moral element undoubtedly aimed at the "improvement" of the reader!I really look forward to the publication of the more advanced volumes in the series.

Chinese Breeze ist eine großartige Serie von Büchern, die ich nur jedem Chinesischlernenden empfehlen kann.Ich habe alle Level 1 und 2-Bücher gelesen und mir fehlt nur noch "The Third Eye" in Level 3.Leider hat "The Moon Sculpture Left Behind" einige offensichtliche Schwächen.Es wirkt als ob das Manuskript 30 Seiten lang war, es aber die Vorgabe von 60 Seiten gab und dann die Geschichte aufgebläht werden musste.So ist vermutlich Kapitel 2 entstanden, dass nichts mit der eigentlichen Geschichte zu tun hat und nur jedwede Anfängervokabel wie "跳舞" oder "游泳" aneinanderreiht.In Kapitel 3 wird erwähnt, dass es swischen 1949 und 1979 irgendwie Probleme gab und der Charakter auswandern musste.Wenn man sich ein bisschen mit der chinesischen Geschichte auskennt, kann man sich denken, was das Problem war,der Autor schafft es aber nicht auch nur ansatzweise zu Beschreiben was los ist.Insgesamt ist das Buch vom Vokabular und Satzbau auch leichter als die anderen Level 3 Ausgaben.HSK 3-Niveau sollte ausreichen.Ich kann dieses Buch aber trotzdem eingeschränkt empfehlen, weil es auf diesem Niveau praktisch keine Alternative gibt.

Ich finde es gar nicht leicht, Lesebücher mit relativ interessanten Geschichten für dieses Niveau zu finden. Deswegen bin ich froh, Chinese Breeze Niveau 2 und 3 Lesebücher kaufen zu können. Danke schön, Amazon Deutschland! Und die mich im Ausland pünktlich erreichen!

Si tratta di una serie di libretti ben calibrati per affrontare in modo graduale le difficoltà della lingua. Ottimo per chi studia cinese

我上网买过这本书应为书店有点儿贵。 对我来说， Chinese Breeze 很简单. 我的汉语很不好但是我都能明白。Facil de leer si tienes un nivel de hanyu medio bajo (HSK 4). Lo recomiendo!