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Discover how easy it can be to start speaking Mandarin Chinese — the world’s most spoken language — with confidence and clarity. Learn Mandarin Chinese for Beginners is your simple, step-by-step audio guide to mastering the basics fast. Designed for travelers, students, and curious learners alike, this audiobook focuses on real-world conversations, not complicated grammar. Each short, focused lesson helps you speak, understand, and remember through repetition and everyday examples.

Simplified Chinese Short Stories for Advanced (C1) Skill Level is designed for learners at the C1 level, offering 30 captivating short stories to take your Simplified Chinese comprehension to the next level. Each story features advanced sentence structures, nuanced idiomatic expressions, and sophisticated vocabulary, immersing you in the depth and complexity of the Chinese language.

Learn Mandarin the Fun Way-Through Stories, Laughter, and Real-Life Conversations! Forget boring textbooks and robotic language apps - this book makes learning Mandarin easy, engaging, and unforgettable. Instead of drowning in grammar rules, you'll pick up practical, everyday phrases through funny stories and real-world dialogues.

Questo corso audio comprende 50 storie bilingue ambientate in situazioni quotidiane: prima in cinese mandarino, poi in italiano. Ogni racconto è strutturato per ascoltare la pronuncia e il ritmo naturale del mandarino, immediatamente seguiti dal significato e dal contesto nella tua lingua.

Simplified Chinese Short Stories for Proficient (C2) Skill Level: Simplified Chinese Reading Practice is expertly designed for learners at the C2 level, offering 30 engaging and challenging short stories to refine your mastery of Simplified Chinese. These stories feature advanced sentence structures, an extensive vocabulary, and nuanced expressions, making them ideal for those seeking to achieve full fluency and linguistic precision in Simplified Chinese.

I’m Not Angry, I’m Just Hurt / 我不是生气我只是受伤了 is a bilingual English–Simplified Chinese children’s book that resonates across generations. It offers young listeners a gentle way to explore emotions, while giving parents and teachers a tool for meaningful conversations about empathy, resilience, and healing.

Written in Simplified Chinese and English, Nüwa the Creator retells one of China's oldest and most profound myths—the story of the mother of humankind—in easy-to-understand Mandarin Chinese. Follow Nüwa’s journey of love, sacrifice, and hope, and discover how one goddess changed the world forever.

When the skies break and floodwaters cover the land, one man rises to meet the challenge. This is the inspiring story of Yu, who dedicates his life to taming the great floods, not by fighting nature, but by listening to it. Through thirteen years of hardship, sacrifice, and perseverance, Yu transforms disaster into harmony, laying the foundation for China's first dynasty.

This biography, written in easy-to-understand Simplified Chinese, introduces listeners to the life and ideas of Confucius (Kongzi), one of the most influential thinkers in Chinese history. Born during a time of political conflict and social instability, Confucius developed a philosophy centered on ethics, learning, family, and responsible leadership. Although he faced challenges in his own lifetime and struggled to find official support for his reforms, his teachings were preserved by his students and have shaped generations of Chinese society.

Before he became the legendary author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu was a quiet boy named Sun Wu, with sharp eyes and deep questions. Born into a noble family in ancient Qi, he watched as truth-tellers were silenced and principled generals cast aside. Determined to change the fate of nations, he walked away from comfort and into the mountains, where he began crafting a philosophy that would shape history.

Chang’e, eldest daughter of a powerful sky god, makes a foolish mistake and is exiled from the heavenly world, condemned to live out her days as an earthbound mortal. The archer Hou Yi dives through the clouds to follow her, and together they save the human world from destruction.

A long time ago in ancient China, the sky was home to ten blazing suns. They took their turns lighting the earth, until one day they rose together. They scorched the land, dried up rivers, and burned crops to ash. The people suffered, unable to survive under the relentless heat.

Chinespeak 60 contains 6 topics—from greetings to talking about likings—and each topic has 10 sentences that you'll hear twice. To optimize your learning experience, each sentence is read twice: once at normal speed, and once as a slow repetition, so that you can carefully discern and replicate the pronunciation. Perfect for those wanting to practice their tones. To add to this, an English translation of every sentence is also available for you to check your understanding and grammar.

This is the abridged version of the trilogy The Torrents: Family, Spring, and Autumn, masterpieces of Ba Jin, one of the greatest writers of modern Chinese literature. The trilogy recounts the decline of a large feudal family following the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The abridged version of 30,000 words for each title, approximately 1/10 of each of the original, can be listened to by elementary-level students of Chinese with a 2,000-word vocabulary or can be used as an aid to reading the original.

「 中国語は難しい」「私には無理」最初は誰だってそう感じるのが普通です。でも安心してください。３ヵ月程度で中国語のリズムや音に慣れ、中国語を聞くのが心地よくなってきます。こうなればもうこっちのもの。

Long, long ago, people didn't know how to distinguish which plants were edible and which were not. Many suffered poisoning from eating the wrong food. Shennong, the chieftain of a tribe, decided to solve this problem.

In ancient Chinese mythology, Nüwa was the goddess who created the universe. She was half woman and half snake. Legend claimed that she created human by kneading clay into her image. One day, heaven collapsed, the earth cracked and a flood occurred. A Black Dragon Demon devoured humans as they appeared and they were confronted with an unprecedented catastrophe. How would Nüwa help the humans? Would she defeat the Black Dragon Demon? Please listen to the story of Nüwa to find out.

A villager named Li Er found his cow’s tongue was mysteriously cut. He then reported his case to Bao Zheng. The judge used a clever way to find out the truth….

Chunyu Yi has five daughters. However, the absence of a son always makes his heart sink. To his surprise, when he is in trouble, Tiying, his youngest daughter, bravely steps forward to help.

This book invites you on a fascinating journey through timeless Chinese idioms that hold immense practicality in our everyday lives. Spanning a diverse range of themes such as strategic thinking, effective communication, meaningful relationships, the art of learning, emotional wellbeing, and the pursuit of achievement and success, these idioms resonate deeply in our modern existence, transcending cultural boundaries to offer universal wisdom.