Your free sample: Mahjong

Here are 13 pages of Field Guide 003, Tiles, Tea & Friends: Mahjong: the opening of a reading set in a Chengdu park, the tiles and moves in the Field Kit, the first grammar point and Xiǎo Lóng's comic.

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How to read it (10 minutes)

1. Read the Chinese of the reading first and try to follow the scene without the English or pinyin. Mark what you miss.
2. Then check the English and the notes in the margin. Look up only the words that blocked you.
3. Go to the Field Kit and the grammar page, then reread the Chinese paragraph. Notice how 一边……一边…… shows up.
4. Read the comic last. It has no pinyin and no English, so you will see how much you understand now.

If you liked it, the full guide has the whole reading in three parts, the vocabulary lists, all four grammar points, exercises with answers and the appendices. See Field Guide 003 or all Field Guides.

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