Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 1 [300 Word Level]: Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge [2nd Edition]. ISBN: 9787301282557

ISBN-10: 7-301-28255-9, 7301282559
ISBN-13: 978-7-301-28255-7, 9787301282557
English Title: Chinese Breeze: Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge (2nd Edition)
Level: Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 1 (300 word level)
Chinese Title: 汉语风 - 中文分级系列读物 - 第1级 (300词级): 两个想上天的孩子 (第二板)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 63
Shipping Weight: 150g
Size: 140mm x 203mm
Language: simplified Chinese, vocabulary additionally in pinyin and English
Year of Publication: 2017
Publisher: Peking University Press

Two Children Seeking the Joy Bridge, from Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 1 (300 Word Level). 2nd edition including audio online stream.

Scan the QR-Code from the back of the book with your mobile device to get the audio. There are slow and normal speed files available.

To check if a reader of this series is at your reading level, try to read the following introduction of the story. If the introduction is comprehensible, you will have the ability to understand the full story of this book.

“叔叔，在哪里买飞机票（fēijīpiào, air-ticket）？”
“小朋友，你们为什么来买飞机票？要去旅行吗？”
“不是。我们要到天上去。”
……
这两个要买飞机票的孩子，一个7岁，一个8岁。他们不知道，在他们出来以后，有人给他们的家里打电话，让他们的爸爸妈妈拿钱去换他们呢……别人更想知道，他们为什么想上天？

“Sir, where is the air-ticket office?”
“You two kids came to buy air-tickets? Are you gonna travel somewhere?”
“Nope. We just what to go up to the Joy Bridge.” 
“The Joy Bridge?”
……
Of the two children at the airport to buy air-tickets, one is 7 and the other is 8. Beyond their wildest imaginings, after they ran away, their parents were called by some crooks who demanded a ransom to get them back! And of course, nobody knows the location of the Joy Bridge that the two children intend to go see.

About Chinese Breeze (Hànyǔ Fēng)
Chinese Breeze (Hànyǔ Fēng) is a large and innovative Chinese graded reader series which offers over 60 titles of enjoyable stories at eight language levels. It is designed for college and secondary school Chinese language learners from beginning to advanced levels (including AP Chinese students), offering them a new opportunity to read for pleasure and simultaneously developing real fluency, building confidence, and increasing motivation for Chinese learning.

Hànyǔ Fēng has the following main features:

• Eight carefully graded levels increasing from 8,000 to 30,000 characters in length;
• Wide choice of topics, including detective, adventure, romance, fantasy, science fiction, society, biography, legend etc. to meet the diverse interests of adult and young learners; 
• Careful selection of most useful vocabulary for actual communication in modern standard Chinese; 
• Carefully controlled distribution of vocabulary, highly recycled base words in various contexts;
• Easy to understand, low new word density, and convenient new word glosses and indexes. In lower level readers, new word density is limited to 1.5 - 2%. All new words are conveniently glossed with footnotes upon first apperance;
• Mostly original stories crafted by professional writers teamed with pedagogical experts;
• Attractive plots;
• Authentic and engaging language;
• Fully illustrated texts with appealing layouts;
• A variety of activities with answer keys;
• Accompanying audio online stream with two (normal and slow) speed choices.