Learn Chinese Vocabulary for Beginners: New HSK Level 1 Chinese Vocabulary Book (Free Audio) - Master 500 Words in Context (NEW HSK Vocabulary Series)

This is based on the newly revised HSK 3.0 that was introduced in 2021. All 500 level 1 words are presented, each with an example sentence (2 if the word has more than one meaning). Pinyin and English translations are provided for everything.The audio files for this book are different from the files for the following books in 2 ways:1. Spoken English translations of the words and example sentences are included.2. There is a separate audio file for each vocabulary word.This allows you to review the audio for each word separately, and to understand the audio without needing to refer back to the book. You can even load the audio files into a flashcard program if you wish.For books 2-6, there are 10 words per audio file, and the words and sample sentences are only spoken in Chinese (though each word's number from the book is spoken in English). This makes reviewing words with the audio a bit more of a challenge, but maybe you'll be up to it by then.One odd thing with the audio is that I sometimes have trouble distinguishing the speaker's L's and N's, both in English and Chinese. For example, sometimes when she says "nine," it sounds to me like "lawn." Or when she says "athlete," it sometimes sounds like "assnit." Maybe I just need more practice getting accustomed to the speaker's accent.

I've tried every which way and program to learn Chinese. At some point, you just need a large vocabulary to become fluent. I'm making flashcards out of each word in here and then all the grammar rules. It's finally clicking.

Perhaps it is best for fresh beginners, but I have my critiques. In my opinion, the sentences are spoken too slowly and too much time is wasted. There is no need to say which number sentence it is, or say "Example." or even translate it in English. The value lies in a native speaker saying the sentences in a natural manner, but this is not entirely the case. Some of its potential was lost.

A bit pricey but better than having no resources, I suppose. I wish each individual (new) word was defined in each sentence. I usually have to look up unknown words using my Hanping Pro dictionary app.

As a beginner, this book is pretty useful as it helps you to learn the 500 words from the new HSK1 and it also shares an example, plus the audio, for you to practice listening and pronunciation. Additionally the book explains you how to master chinese numbers. If you are a beginner like me, this book will be s great resource to study!

I bought this one together with the writing practice book and they complement each other very well. :) nice and clear design, examples help to memorize the meaning.

First of all, there's no index, no list of the characters (zi's) covered in this book. An instructive book without an index can never deserve 5 stars. Especially an expensive one.There's some good info in here. The section on numbers was helpful. I've never learned a lot of that before--when to say ling and when to leave out shi.My main complaint with the book is that you can't read the tone marks. You can see that there are marks above most of the pinyin, but they're so small you can't tell if it's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th. Occasionally they leave tones off too--like in second syllables. I wish Chinese textbooks would NEVER do that. I understand that in compound words tones are often insignificant on latter syllables, but I'd still like to know which tone the zi normally carries, so I can learn it . In this book though, it hardly matters. If you already know all the tones, you're good to go, but if you're a beginning level student, you won't learn the tones here.My second complaint is that they CRAMMED the info onto half-sized sheets of paper. The printing goes into the inner page margins; you have to nearly crack the binding to be able to read all the words in the intro pages. Once you get into the sentence pages, that problem is nearly eliminated. But if you want to re-bind (e.g. for a spiral binding) you're hopelessly out of luck.Third complaint is that they sandwiched the zi sentences between pinyin above and English below. The characters are in a good size font. The English is in an enormous font. The pinyin is in a small font (and you can't read the tone marks). Since I already understand English, I'd rather have had it not be so large or close to the zi's. I assume they made the pinyin small so it would match the character spacing, but that's ridiculous. With such short sentences it's easy to figure out which pinyin word goes with which character. By including pinyin above and English below, your eye automatically skips the part you should be focusing on: the zi's.So, no index, inadequate tone marks, poor layout, and a bias toward British English (I mean, they have a sentence that baldly proclaims, "I am not an American." Ha ha!) make it so I won't waste any more money on what otherwise would have been a really great line of products.