The Secret Garden: Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author), Zhang Xiuye (Narrator), Mind Spark Press (Publisher)

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Li Ye (Marry Lennox) grew up without the love and affection of her parents. After an epidemic leaves her an orphan, Li Ye is sent off to live with her reclusive uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set food in 10 years. Li Ye finds the garden and slowly discovers the secrets of the manor. With the help of new friends, she brings the garden back to life and learns the healing power of friendship and love.

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-listen-to novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every audiobook in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully authored to use words and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

Level one is intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most learners will be able to approach this audiobook after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand story line that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language-comprehension abilities.

Please note: This audiobook is in Chinese.

Listening Length

1 hour and 23 minutes
Author

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator

Zhang Xiuye
Audible release date

14 December 2018
Language

Mandarin Chinese
Publisher

Mind Spark Press
ASIN

B07LB6T5TK
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	1 hour and 23 minutes
Author	Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator	Zhang Xiuye
Audible.com.au Release Date	14 December 2018
Publisher	Mind Spark Press
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	Mandarin Chinese
ASIN	B07LB6T5TK
Best Sellers Rank	76,071 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 35 in Chinese Language Learning 95 in Chinese Language Learning for Children 204 in Chinese as a Second Language

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Robyn

Excellent

Reviewed in Australia on 8 November 2020

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I never learn any Chinese without native audio, if you do that , you are listening to your own incorrect internal voice pronunciation and creating bad habits This was my first time listening along to a Chinese story. This was a year and a half ago , I’ve come a long way since then. This seemed so hard at the time but you just have to do a bit at a time , I listened / read it over several days (I started with a slow speed ) By the end I could up the pace a bit.

I highly recommend the Mandarin Companion books as your first books 📚 You can adjust size of font (kindle) use the built in dictionary(kindle) , adjust the audio speed, you can’t get better than this.

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J Lake

Excellent Kindle formatting ... except for setting it the language as English

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2014

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Quite a simple Mandarin reader of a familiar English story. I rather liked that it was a story that was vaguely recognizable to me, but it had been adapted slightly to be in China.

I bought this to read on my kindle as the formatting is fantastic, much much more readable than ordinary text. I deduct a star though because of how difficult it was to get my kindle to recognise this book as Chinese. I have installed a chinese dictionary but because the metadata of this book claimed it was only in English, my Kindle would not lookup the Chinese characters.

To anyone else interested in being able to lookup chinese definitions here is what you need to do:
1. Install Calibre on your computer. This is free software to help manage ebooks and quite useful to have anyway.
2. Add the book into your Calibre library. If you have already downloaded the book to your Kindle like I did, you can plug in your kindle, and when Calibre detects this you can select the correct book and add to library from the right click menu.
3. Now select the library button on the ribbon and then select the book and click the edit metadata button on the ribbon.
4. Change the language to Chinese.
5. Then send the book (back) to the Kindle. You can select the book and click send to device from the right click menu.
(This will make a new copy of the book - you may want to delete the original after you test that the new one works properly)
(Note: This is all perfectly legal. The DRM remains intact, the metadata just tells the Kindle which dictionary to use.

If you have a chinese dictionary you should now be able to select a word and see its definition. I use the free CC-CEDICT dictionary which is Chinese-English. If you do use a free dictionary, note that you should copy the .mobi file into a dictionaries folder and that should be inside the documents folder. If you have installed the dictionary correctly it should be in the list under Menu > Settings > Dictionaries.

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Marta

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2018

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Great book for beginners. It's very nicely done, even has done questions at the end. I will definitely buy more from them. It was the first book I've read in Chinese. It's very rewarding! I recommend getting the Kindle version because you can look up words and even whole sentences with the built-in dictionary.

Daniel Tucker

This review is for the Kindle version and the one star reflects problems with the format.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2016

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I had to return this book. I downloaded it to my Kindle and most of the characters didn't display correctly (20 to 30 empty boxes per page). I read a lot of Chinese materials on my device so definitely a problem with the product.

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Raina

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2017

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Very practical

Ac.B.

Assolutamente consigliato!

Reviewed in Italy on 17 August 2019

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Conoscevo già il libro nella versione originale quindi ne ho approfittato per poter aver più possibilità nel leggere in cinese. In realtà ho trovato il livello e la lettura molto interessanti ed è per questo che sono già al mio secondo libro della mandarin companion e questa volta è una storia nuova e quindi senza l’aiuto di background ma solo la mia conoscenza della lingua cinese (HSK2-3). Se studi il cinese e vuoi metterti alla prova questa è la scelta giusta!

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