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The Secret Garden

Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition

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Li Ye (Marry Lennox) grew up without the love and affection of her parents. After an epidemic leaves her an orphan, Li Ye is sent off to live with her reclusive uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set food in 10 years. Li Ye finds the garden and slowly discovers the secrets of the manor. With the help of new friends, she brings the garden back to life and learns the healing power of friendship and love.

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-listen-to novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every audiobook in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully authored to use words and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

Level one is intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most learners will be able to approach this audiobook after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand story line that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language-comprehension abilities.

Please note: This audiobook is in Chinese.

©2013 Mind Spark Press (P)2018 Mind Spark Press Classics Language Learning Literature & Fiction Chinese Gardens
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...could do with a PDF to follow along with. Other than that its a good place to improve listening comprehension.

Very good but...

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Clear and easy to follow. Used the key info (characters, vocab) free download from the mandarin companion website to help with understanding. The speed is great but for certain sections being able to reduce it to 0.75 was so useful.

Another great graded reader

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Reading speed is slowed down deliberately to aid listening. The story is a familiar one from my childhood although I don't remember its being set in China ;-) I found this premise quite entertaining and absolutely love the illustrations of the covers in this series. Will be listening to the rest as well

Good for learning to listen in Chinese

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I loved every bit of it. I could easily follow along, the pace was comfortable.

The secret garden

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really good narration, good speed and easy to hear, which is something which is hard for beginners because chinese in tv and movies is very fast usually and hard to hear the first letters of words sometimes

no pdf, cheeky way of getting u to buy again

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