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  • Xiao Ming, Boy Sherlock

  • Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level
  • By: John Pasden, Jared Turner
  • Narrated by: Xiao Qing
  • Length: 35 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Xiao Ming, Boy Sherlock

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

Even at a young age, Xiao Ming (boy Sherlock Holmes) has a reputation among his peers for his keen powers of observation. His budding skills are put to the test when he is tasked with finding a thief at school.

However mysteries always seem to find him when strange fires start out of seemingly nowhere and a classmate begins anonymously receiving flowers from a secret admirer. With the help of his older brother, Xiao Ming employs his skills of wit and deduction to unveil the truth hidden behind every mystery.

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 comprehend 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 Introductory Learning Book

This level of graded reader is hard to make interesting but the authors do a good job of making them somewhat funny and interesting despite their restrictions.

The stories are simple and easy to follow, with a lot of repeated structure to make sure you really understand what is going on, which is helpful when you’re learning.

The speaker is clear and at a comfortable pace for this level. My only minor complaint is that they pronounce 谁 as shuí instead of shéi, which is less common to my understanding.

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