Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 [500 Word Level]: Secrets of a computer company [2nd Edition]. ISBN: 9787301282533

ISBN-10: 7-30-128253-2, 7301282532
ISBN-13: 978-7-30-128253-3, 9787301282533
English Title: Chinese Breeze: Secrets of a computer company (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): 电脑公司的秘密 (第二版)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 74
Shipping Weight: 170g
Size: 140mm x 203mm
Language: simplified Chinese, vocabulary additionally in pinyin and English
Year of Publication: 2017
Publisher: Peking University Press

Secrets of a computer company, from Chinese Breeze - Graded Reader Series Level 2 (500 Word Level). With online audio stream: scan the QR-Code from the back of the book with your mobile device to get 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.

方新写了一个很好的软件 (ruanjian: software), 没想到这个软件被人盗版 (daoban: be pirated) 了。做盗版的是谁? 他找了很久也没有找到。直到有一天, 小月突然发现了这里的秘密 (mimi: secret)。她把这个秘密告诉了方新, 但是就在这个时候, 做盗版的人也发现了她, 要杀死 (shasi: kill) 她…

Fang Xin was the developer of a popular software program. But he did not anticipate that the software was soon pirated for sale in large volumes. He had been searching for the pirates for a long time, but did not find them. One day, his wife Xiaoyue overheard a phone conversation in a store. She followed the caller and discovered the pirates. Nevertheless, Xiaoyue didn´t think that she was already on the brink of death…

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;
• With online audio stream with two (normal and slow) speed choices.