>
> Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> wrote:
>
> > > I found a book
> > > of Chinese lessons in English. Mainly drills and patterns,
> > > but interesting nevertheless.
> > >
> >
> > Care to describe it a little closer? Is the binding red?
>
> I'm sure it's not a famous book -- now B., if you actually
> have a copy, I'm going to start believing all those rumours
> about your giant library. ;)
>
> The book has a soft cover, light-blue, with a shallow canvas-like
> texture. In the front it reads 'Speak Chinese'; that is preceded
> by four hanzi (one of them is the one for 'gwo', but that's all
> I can identify); then there is a 'yi' hanzi in parentheses (the
> number 1, isn't it?). In the lower part of the cover there are
> also two rows of hanzi.
>
> In the first page it has the same, plus it also says
>
> Revised and Adapted
> by the
> MANDARIN TRAINING CENTER
> NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
>
> The printing itself is quite bad; the hanzi and bopomofo characters
> are well done, but the Roman transliterations are apparently type-
> written (with a typewriter, I mean) and I suspect the tones are
> marked by hand.
>
> There is no date of publication. Despite its quality, the book is
> quite well-bound. It totals 576 pages, most of which are exercises
> and drills in hanzi, no transliteration; the transliterated pieces
> and grammatical notes are just *notes*, it seems, though there are
> examples and you usually get what they mean.
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
>
http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html