Taiwan Today (2nd Edition)
by Shou-Hsin Teng

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Book Reviews of Taiwan Today (2nd Edition)

Book Review: Fairly good
Summary: 4 Stars

What I like about Taiwan Today is that it has both traditional and simplified characters (but the newspaper clippings in the supplementary materials are always in traditional characters), and that it gives fairly good grammatical explanations. However, the thing that is really annoying about the book is that it does not use a system of vocabulary repetition. Thus, the student often find that s/he learns a new word in one chapter and never see that word being used again throughout the whole book. Furthermore, the sample sentences illustrating the grammatical points often do not use the words that the chapter introduces; instead they often employ the use of words that would require the student to consult a dictionary. Overall, the book is not excellent, but it is pretty good in that it give fairly good grammatical explanations and introduces good vocabulary (although the words are not always the most practical; keep in mind that this is not a book that teaches you conversational Chinese).

Summary of Taiwan Today (2nd Edition)

Chinese Books

• Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction
• General
• Travel > Asia > General