ablindwatchmaker 60 Report post Posted March 9, 2013 Hey guys! I recently posted on here asking if anyone was in a position to offer a vocabulary list for "Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese" in exchange for a complete list of all vocabulary contained within the Defrancis Beginning Chinese Reader books. Well, it doesn't look like anyone has one available, so I'm just going to post what I have and hope someone finds the files useful. There are, undoubtedly, a few errors that will need to be corrected, but that shouldn't prevent anyone from getting something out of it. I will post lists for both the character text and the reader. I hope this helps! Defrancis Beginning Chinese Reader Part 1 Complete.txt Defrancis Beginning Chinese Reader Part 2 Complete.txt Defrancis Beginning Chinese Character Text Complete.txt 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fred K 2 Report post Posted April 30, 2013 Thanks, this is useful for me. Seton Hall U put out a recording of the BCR Sentences, Dialogs and Narratives, this can aid listening to it. Do you still need the Intermediate lists? I have the Part 2 of DeFrancis' Intermediate Chinese Reader book (a 1967 edition, the title differs from what you listed), and I probably have Part 2 somewhere. I may get around to compiling lists, if you need them. What is your experience with the method in these readers? The idea is interesting, but I have some gripes about what has been implemented. Cheers, Fred K. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ablindwatchmaker 60 Report post Posted May 1, 2013 That would be wonderful. I haven't completed the first because I've been tied up with my classroom text, but it will be extremely useful once I start on intermediate. I would love to have a list of parts 1 and 2! I think the readers are very, very solid. My reading speed tripled or quadrupled after starting on this series. I've also learned a ton of useful vocabulary. More importantly, the readers give you tons of sentence patterns in a variety of contexts, so you end up learning the grammar quite naturally. Instead of reviewing a pattern 2 or 3 times, you see it dozens of times over a longer period, which leads to greater retention, at least in my experience. I use this as a supplement though. I'm actually skeptical of self-teaching from scratch. I think that self-teaching is more useful after one has attained at least low-intermediate level in a formal classroom environment. I've met a few people who speak fluent baby Chinese after having self-studied and living in China without formal study, and this is something I'd definitely like to avoid! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meng Lelan 524 Report post Posted May 2, 2013 Thank you for doing this! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ablindwatchmaker 60 Report post Posted May 2, 2013 It would be awesome to have the entire series posted on this forum. I'm also working on the princeton series, as well as the Zhongqin reader, if anyone is interested. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wibr 141 Report post Posted September 25, 2015 If you are interested in this topic, you might also like: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/49790-defrancis-readers-vocabulary-lists-chinese-only-traditional/ 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
