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I'm currently learning Chinese and I'd like to know what to read so I can read when I get more fluent. Our teacher mentioned 红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber) but I wanted to know if there things too. I personally want to read Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

>> No.19224209

>>19224195
There are other things to read too*

>> No.19225231

>>19224195
zhuangzi

>> No.19225280

>>19224195
Webnovels.
Also, you know that modern and classic are completely different right? Are you learning both?

>> No.19225332

>>19224195
I'm learning Chinese, too, and I found the Mandarin Companion Graded Readers. They're something to bridge the gap from learning to actually reading, which is the hardest part, imo.
Currently reading Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Curly Haired Company from the series. It's Sherlock Holmes, just adapted into a Chinese setting.

>> No.19225421

>>19225332

Not op. I also found Mandarin Companion to be the best available, but unfortunately it only covers the lowest levels (150, 300, 450 words if I remember correctly). I'm also using the rainbow bridge series. They are terrible, but there is a lot of them, they cover up to 2500 words and have free mp3 recordings.

>> No.19225451

>>19225421
>it only covers the lowest levels (150, 300, 450 words if I remember correctly)
I think that's pretty good for the beginning.
I also bought a lot of cheap children's books on aliexpress. They have cute little stories, but there's pinyin above the hanzhi which I find a bit distracting at times.

>> No.19225949

>>19225451
Sure that's pretty good for beginning. What I meant is that I burned through all the available levels in a few months, and MC level 2 to real fiction is too much of jump (according to a few other threads I've read, 2500 words to real fiction is also a big jump).

Nice idea buying books on Aliexpress.

>> No.19227390

>>19225280
I assume by "classic" he just means kind of old, since he mentioned Dream of the Red Chamber (which is written in more-or-less Modern Chinese, even though it was published at a time when writing in Classical Chinese was the norm).

>> No.19228794

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