Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 [500 Word Level]: If I didn’t have you [2nd Edition]. ISBN: 9787301303580

Format: Book + online audio
ISBN-10: 7-301-30358-0, 7301303580
ISBN-13: 978-7-301-30358-0, 9787301303580
English Title: Chinese Breeze: If I didn't have you (2nd Edition)
Level: Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 word level)
Chinese Title: 汉语风 - 中文分级系列读物 - 第2级 (500词级): 如果没有你 (第2版)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 77
Shipping Weight: 170g
Size: 140mm x 202mm
Language: simplified Chinese, vocabulary additionally in pinyin and English
Year of Publication: 2019
Publisher: Peking University Press

If I didn't have you, Chinese Title: 如果没有你 (ruguo mei you ni) from Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 Word Level) (2nd Edition). Scan the QR-Code from the back of the book using your mobile device to stream the audio.

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. Otherwise check other volumes of Chinese Breeze at a different level.

黄小明是个小偷(xiaotou: pickpocket)。他很会偷(tou: steal)东西，但是他只偷很有钱的人，钱少的人他不偷，也不让别的小偷偷他们。大学生夏雨(Xia Yu)的钱包被偷走了，他帮助夏雨要了回来；有个小偷偷了一位老奶奶的钱包(qianbao: wallet)，他把钱包从那个小偷那里偷回来，送回到老奶奶的衣服里……

黄小明爱上了夏雨。有一次，黄小明偷了一个特别有钱的人。可是，这个钱包给他带来了大麻烦！ 黄小明不知道应该怎么办，夏雨帮助了他。

可是，小偷黄小明能得到大学生夏雨的爱吗？

Xiaoming is a pickpocket. He is really good at stealing. But he only steals from rich people. He never touches those who are poor, and doesn't let other thieves steal from poor people either.

Xia Yu is a college freshman. She lost her purse at a railway station. Xiaoming got the purse back for her from the thief. Another time, a thief stole an old woman's wallet on a bus. Xiaoming stole the wallet back from the thief and put into the lady's jacket unobserved. More surprisingly, when Xiaoming is falling in love with Xia Yu, he lands into a big trouble after stealing from a very rich man.

Will Xiaoming the pickpocket win the love of Xia Yu, a pretty college student? 

Contents / 目录

1.黄小明是个小偷
Huang Xiaoming is a pickpocket

2.一只眼睛的小三儿
One-eyed Xiao San

3.“我觉得你特别像警察！”
"I feel that you are a policeman"

4.一万块钱换两千块？
Ten thousand RMB for two thousand RMB

5.黄小明脸红了，夏雨的脸也红了
Huang Xiaoming was blushed, so was Xiao Yu

6.夏雨的路
Xia Yu's Life

7.“我是小偷……”
"I am a pickpocket"

8.问题就在一张小小的光盘里
The reason is the tiny disk

9.“对不起，再见！”
"Sorry, but bye!"

10.如果没有你
If I didn't have you

生词索引
Vocabulary Index

练习
Exercises

练习答案
Answer keys to the exercises

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 stream with two (normal and slow) speed choices.