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  • Just Friends?

  • Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level
  • By: Jared Turner, John Pasden
  • Narrated by: Xiao Qing
  • Length: 32 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Just Friends?

By: Jared Turner, John Pasden
Narrated by: Xiao Qing
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Publisher's summary

Dapeng and Wendong are best friends attending the same college. When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, they soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her.

However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin.

Whom does she really like, or are they “just friends"?

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-listen-to novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

The breakthrough level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one year of traditional formal study, depending on the learner and program.

This level is designed to help learners begin to understand full-length texts in Chinese and combines simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language comprehension abilities.

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Great but monotonous

The story is great. The vocabulary is good to learn. The speaking speed is just right! However, the voice is very monotonous, even when characters are angry. A little more natural inflection, change of register would have made it more enjoyable. Some added sound effect would have made it an even more enjoyable of a listen and make it more of "enjoy listening to a great story" rather than "im just listening to this to learn.

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Good start

Great for shadow speaking and learning to recognize common characters at the same time. Speaker's voice is clear and easy to hear tones.

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Great Study Aid

I listened to this multiple times to get tones and pronunciation. Slow and easy to understand!

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