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FOREVER FREE: Elsa's Pride
Joy Adamson Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0006328857 |
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FOREVER FREE: Elsa's Pride
Joy Adamson Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8UYKE |
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The Weightlifting Encyclopedia: A Guide to World Class Performance
Arthur J. Drechsler Manufacturer: A is A Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0965917924 |
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highy recommended.......2005-07-03
NOT for beginners, very good for more advanced lifters.......2004-07-01
It is about time to have a Second Edition........2004-05-25
The book contents attest to the dedication and genuine desire of its author to enhance the sport of Weightlifting and to convey the best information the author could offer.
The design of the book cover is poor where the title is pushed aside and reduced into a tiny unnoticeable scratch. A book with such wealth of knowledge deserves better cover design, better paragraph design, and attractive illustrations and quotations between transitions of thoughts in order to keep the reader interested and staying awake while reading.
Awesome.......2003-12-30
The Best Book On The Subject - but..........2001-12-20
That said, Dreschler could have used a good editor. The book could have covered the same material minus a few hundred pages. In addition, the book is text-long and diagram-short. Essays can be a wonderful tool, but so much of weightlifting can be explained better with photos and diagrams. For example, there is no freeze-frame analysis of lifting technique. How better to correct technique problems than to display examples of proper and improper technique? In this case, a picture truly is worth a thousand words.
That said, the reader should also purchase Dreschler's companion video or some other weightlifting video.
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Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Workbook (Simplified Character Edition) (C&T Asian Languages Series.)
Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0887272711 |
Book Description
The Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 2 Workbook contains exercises to accompany the material introduced in the Level 1 Part 2 Textbook and audio CDs. This acclaimed, best-selling series is successful because it "integrates" all four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Integrated Chinese helps you understand how the Chinese language works grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real lifehow to understand it on the street, speak it on the telephone, read it in the newspaper, or write it in a report. The materials within Integrated Chinese's set of textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, and audio CDs are divided into sections of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Two types of exercises are used: traditional exercises (fill-in-the-blank, sentence completion, translation) to help learners build a solid grammatical foundation, and communication-oriented exercises (speaking drills, discussion topics, etc.) to prepare them to function in a Chinese language environment. Frequently, authentic materials written for native Chinese speakers and realia (newspaper clippings, signs, tickets, etc.) are used. Notes on language use and Chinese culture are found throughout the textbooks. Textbooks and workbooks are available in simplified or traditional characters.Customer Reviews:
A Great Text Book.......2006-03-10
Don't buy it!!.......2006-01-14
Excellent Supplemental Material for IC Users........2003-11-16
Integrated Chinese is one of two programs commonly used in U.S. University and College Chinese programs, and is, in my opinion, the best program for English speakers to learn Chinese that I've ever seen. [The other program, the Practical Chinese Reader series, is also reasonably good, but doesn't introduce the key grammar, writing and pronounciation rules from the beginning, doesn't focus as heavily on radicals early on as it should, and the sequence of lessons isn't as useful.]
Unlike so many other programs, IC doesn't just focus on speaking the language, but incorporates all areas that make learning a language complete (listening, speaking, reading and writing). But, what makes this program excellent isn't merely the integrated approach, but its sequence and methodology that lay a solid foundation to build upon, making learning the language much easier and faster.
On this workbook in particular:
This workbook is a very useful companion to the Integrated Chinese text book, giving you additional hands on, practical experience in listening to and speaking the Chinese language. NOTE: It primarily focuses on listening comprehension and reading exercises, which requires the workbook audio (cassette or CD). Reading comprehension, writing and grammar are covered to a lesser extent.
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Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Character Workbook (Traditional Character Edition) (Level I Traditional Character Texts)
Tao-Chung Yao , Yuehua Liu , Nyang-Ping Bi , Yea-Fen Chen , Liangyan Ge , Yaohua Shi , Xiaojun Wang , and Jeffrey J. Hyden Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 088727272X |
Book Description
The Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 2 Character Workbook introduces how to write Chinese characters in their correct stroke order, and accompanies the Level 1 Part 2 Textbook. This acclaimed, best-selling series is successful because it "integrates" all four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Integrated Chinese helps you understand how the Chinese language works grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real lifehow to understand it on the street, speak it on the telephone, read it in the newspaper, or write it in a report. The materials within Integrated Chinese's set of textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, and audio CDs are divided into sections of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Two types of exercises are used: traditional exercises (fill-in-the-blank, sentence completion, translation) to help learners build a solid grammatical foundation, and communication-oriented exercises (speaking drills, discussion topics, etc.) to prepare them to function in a Chinese language environment. Frequently, authentic materials written for native Chinese speakers and realia (newspaper clippings, signs, tickets, etc.) are used. Notes on language use and Chinese culture are found throughout the textbooks. Textbooks and workbooks are available in simplified or traditional characters.Customer Reviews:
No longer the best.......2005-02-03
A Good Place to Start, in an Academic Setting.......2004-05-29
This is good for an academic, and thus slower, study of Chinese. I have studied Chinese at the University of Washington, and my first year was taught by Bi Nian Ping, one of the contributors for this book.
The reason I recomend this book is, obviously, it's integration. Typicaly people bring lots of very narrow interests to the table when they decide to learn Chinese. Some just want to learn to speak, some want to learn for buisness, some just want to learn to read classical Chinese. The truth is that you realy can't break off part of the language and ignore the other parts, otherwise you will be hard pressed to make sense of the overall system that is the Chinese language. This book forces the student to, in equal parts, listen, read, write, and speak. That way a full comprehension can be developed, not a fragmented and specialized one.
There are some criticisms of the book: When I was a first year student, the main one was of the books artwork, which is either awfull or hillarious. But that's not realy fair. Other criticisms are that the book is prone to using words it hasn't explained yet. This, however, is an important strategy in language learning. When the student is confronted with actual Chinese speakers, they will hear lots of words that they don't necessarily know, but will need to judge from context what they mean. A lot of students who have only studied in the classroom experience a panic-paralyisis when confronted with and actual Chinese speaker, because if they can't understand every single word they are hearing, they assume they can't understand what the person is saying. Of course, that's not the case, but we need to get in the habit of being ambushed by unfamiliar words, and be comfortable with that. This eleminates a major barrier to open practice of talking, reading, and writting Chinese.
Also, the book is highly instruction-oriented. In other words, it can be dificult to learn from when not partnered with explanation from an instructor. A good solution for the independent student would be to find suplemental books, like the Routledge Comprehensive Chinese Gramar. Or on the other hand, one could just sit in a Chinese restaurant and study untill someone comes along who is eager to help you out. This has certainly never failed me.
Finaly, I recomend the traditional version of this book because I believe that it is far easier to learn traditional first and transition to simplified than it is to learn simplified first and transition to traditional. If you think you don't need to learn both, you are kidding yourself. Almost all the books published in Chinese available in the US and Europe are in traditional characters. Almost all the classic literature was written in traditional, and the traditional characters represent an important aspect of Chinese culture and attitudes. If you think you can ignore this, you will never realy understand Chinese.
Cannot stress it enough.......2004-04-03
Integrated Chinese is fantastic.......2002-12-27
A good choice.......2002-11-22
Pros
1) The vocabulary presented is fairly useful, and the early chapters really do start you off with useful vocabulary. Not like some books where you learn how to say "rainy season" in chapter 1.
2) The accompanying workbook is excellent. The only studying you need to do is the workbook exercises. With languages usually I have to study alot, and do many of the exercises twice, but with this book, I simply do the workbook exercises once and I really feel like I know the material.
3) Although this book romanizes all dialogs, the later books do not. This is a _good_ thing. Believe me, after learning 2,000 Japanese words from a book that puts the phoenetic transcriptions everywhere, you'll be glad to put in the extra effort to simply learn how to read and write the characters early on. I can't stress this enough. Although it may seem hard at first to memorize and learn how to write 30 or 40 characters for each chapter, you will definitely be glad you did. Imagine getting to the point where you know 1,500 words and then deciding hey, I sure wish I knew how to read and write.
Cons
1) The grammar explanations aren't terribly descriptive. It turns out that for much of the grammar they are teaching there's many variants of the same pattern, which they don't teach. So you're stuck if somebody switches around the word order on you. Furthermore, they teach by pattern rather than by grammar. It's great to know "this is the pattern to use when you want to say this", but it's also nice to know that the function of a certain word is to turn an adjective into an adverb, which you won't get from this book.
2) Sometimes the vocabulary can be presented in a weird order. For example, they will teach you the word fast in one chapter, and slow in another chapter. Eat in one chapter, drink in another chapter. Similar words should be grouped. This is of course, what they try to do but it could be done a little better.
3) The glossary in the back is very annoying. There is simply no English->Chinese glossary. Good luck figuring out how to say a certain word in Chinese, because you'll have to scan through _every_ single word in the Chinese->English portion of the glossary until you find it, and you'll probably accidentally skip over it anyway.
Overall though this is a solid book, and I would recommend it. Note that _the_ best book on Chinese is Beginner's Chinese, by Yong Ho. It is simply the best. Buy it. It's insanely cheap, and unbelievably well written.
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Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Character Workbook (Simplified Character Edition)
Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0887272738 |
Book Description
The Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 2 Character Workbook introduces how to write Chinese characters in their correct stroke order, and accompanies the Level 1 Part 2 Textbook. This acclaimed, best-selling series is successful because it "integrates" all four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Integrated Chinese helps you understand how the Chinese language works grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real lifehow to understand it on the street, speak it on the telephone, read it in the newspaper, or write it in a report. The materials within Integrated Chinese's set of textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, and audio CDs are divided into sections of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Two types of exercises are used: traditional exercises (fill-in-the-blank, sentence completion, translation) to help learners build a solid grammatical foundation, and communication-oriented exercises (speaking drills, discussion topics, etc.) to prepare them to function in a Chinese language environment. Frequently, authentic materials written for native Chinese speakers and realia (newspaper clippings, signs, tickets, etc.) are used. Notes on language use and Chinese culture are found throughout the textbooks. Textbooks and workbooks are available in simplified or traditional characters.Customer Reviews:
Like a Practical Road Map for Writing Chinese Characters.......2003-11-16
The authors of this book have made a concerted effort to break down chinese characters in to memorable parts, focusing initially on key radicals (syllables) and more common components, then working up in a sequence that makes recognizing, learning and writing more complex characters much easier.
Each character in the book is given in Chinese and Pinyin with the English definitions. Character variations and traditional characters also given, when appropriate. Each character is then broken down into individual strokes and the correct stroke order for that character is shown (numbered). Each character is also accompanied with a row boxes for tracing the character, a row of boxes with gridlines, and a row of empty boxes, so that you can progress quickly, and you will know the correct way to write each character. This system makes learning chinese characters (and writing them correctly) surprisingly fast and easy.
One key note on this text: Because it is intended to be used with the text book, this text itself is missing a proper explanatation (and the names) of each type of stroke, the correct way to draw those strokes and the general rules on stroke order, which is included in the corresponding text book (pages 16-17 & 20). This isn't a problem if you use it with the text, however, if you do wish to use this book without the text, you'll need to find this information elsewhere. F.Y.I., you can find most of this information online, for free. One page where this is available can be found at
http://www.zhongwen.com/shufa/
Best of luck to you!
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Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Workbook, Simplified Characters, Second Edition
Tao-Chung Yao , Liangyan Ge , Yuehua Liu , and Nyan-Ping Bi Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0887274781 |
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The Character Workbooks are designed to help the student learn Chinese characters in their correct stroke order. In the Level 1 workbooks, stroke order for each new character is displayed, along with its pinyin pronunciation and English translation. Character boxes allow students to practice writing the characters. The Level 2 Character workbook, in addition to stroke order, presents example sentences to illustrate word usage in context. The Level 2 Character workbook includes both simplified and traditional character forms. Four useful appendices are included in the Level 2 Character workbook: A list of proper nouns and measure words; an English-Chinese glossary that includes all vocabulary in Levels 1 and 2; a Chinese character index that lists all characters appearing in Levels 1 and 2; and the simplified-form example sentences that appear in traditional characters throughout the book's text.Customer Reviews:
Poorly done or maybe rushed second edition.......2006-07-14
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Integrated Chinese: Level 1 Part 2 Workbook
Tao-Chung Yao , Yuehua Liu , Nyang-Ping Bi , Yea-Fen Chen , Liangyan Ge , Yaohua Shi , Xiaojun Wang , and Jeffrey J. Hyden Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 0887272835 |
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Aprende a Dibujar - El ABC del Dibujo
Pierre Porte Manufacturer: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9706077669 |
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