Integrated Chinese: Textbook Simplified Characters, Level 1, Part 2 Simplified Text (Chinese Edition) 3rd Edition

I have studied Chinese using this textbook series, Level 1, Part 1. This text is a continuation of the previous text. The curriculum is probably the best I have used, providing vocabulary, grammar, text, and writing. Accompanied by the workbook, listening CDs, and writing workbook, it provides a well-rounded learning experience. I have lived in China now for 9 months and I have found the phrases very useful. I am anxious to continue to improve my Chinese and I feel this textbook will best assist me in achieving that goal. One of the features I like best is that the Chinese is presented in both simplified and traditional characters, plus pinyin. The topics are practical and the learning opportunity is great.

Used acceptable condition. Perfect for not wanting to pay for a new textbook.

I've had a lot of trouble finding Chinese learning books. Either they're too complicated, too simple, don't have pinyin, or have some new-fangled way of teaching.Anyway, this book is the best I've found. Admittedly, the text is geared toward college students, so you'll learn a lot about things you may never want to talk about. But you'll get a good solid base to learn from. This is book 2 in a series.I visited China for a while and never found anything this good. They only use pinyin for babies and Chinese books for Chinese people are much, much too difficult. When I return, I'll be taking these books along with me as a refresher.

“Integrated Chinese – Textbook Simplified Character – Level 1, Part 2, Third Edition,’ Yuehua Liu et al., Review by Dr. Ali Fant, WB5WAFThis review is written from the perspective of a second semester Chinese language student and native-American English speaker with a scientific background. I am fluent in several computer programming languages, but only one human language.This is the textbook used by the University of Alaska, the Kansas State University, and many American high schools – including the US Department of Defense Dependent Schools located overseas.The textbook is divided into ten chapters. In the Fairbanks (Alaska) high schools, only the first five chapters are covered in one semester. Universities vary their scope in covering from five to ten chapters during the course of one semester. The Level 1 Part 1 book and this Level 1 Part 2 book together prepare one for the Chinese government’s HSK Level 1 proficiency exam for non-native Chinese language speakers.My biggest complaint against the textbook is the exclusive use of font size 28, handwritten, cursive style Chinese characters rather than the more easily read printed style Chinese characters. The latter are used as the standard Microsoft YaHei font in Microsoft Word and in most newspapers and books.According to my university instructor, native Chinese learners eventually recognize their characters based upon overall “shape” regardless of font differences – similar to American students learning to read “bubble” and Gothic English fonts.I would pay more for a textbook with a larger Chinese characters font size and a spiral coil bound edition. I paid $5.50 to have a local copy shop cut/bind the textbook for improved access to its many slick pages.The font styles may be a small difference for experienced Chinese language readers, but it is a difficult and unnecessary hurdle for beginning Chinese language students. Kindergarten students, by contrast, prefer standardized printed characters instead of cursive writing in the age of computer texting.This textbook has separately purchased audio CDs to match the vocabulary list and dialogs. Unfortunately, I had to strip off the individual word pronunciations using the Microsoft Sound Recorder program – included with all Microsoft Windows operating systems. Using the Sound Recorder, I was able to turn on “repeat” to hear a single word repeated over and over again.In studying other Chinese textbooks that are currently available, I believe this is the best textbook in existence despite its flaws as textbook for native-American English speakers. One should not have 50% variance in scope based upon the five to ten chapter coverage limit found in US schools.

Thanks for having this book. I was in need of this textbook.At my school sell this book very expensive and the one I bought before was traditional which makes it hard to read certain characters. Your price is reasonable and cheap. Shipping was quick too. Thanks I love it!

The simplified text of integrated Chinese is very useful even for an intermediate student like myself. I still need to go back and review what I have learned and this textbooks is clear and concise and easy to study.

Integrated Chinese is definitely the BEST textbook for learning Chinese. I love the way it is set up. The characters are pretty good for the college students, and the videos, oh, man, you will learn a lot, but you will laugh a lot too... This series is great.

I'm a Mandarin Chinese teacher. There are very few decent textbook available. This is the best I've found, and I have adopted the series for full implementation in my school's Mandarin program. It does require supplementary materials generated by the teacher.