Purple Culture : RSS Product Feed :: A Key to Chinese Speech and Writing II (with audios) http://www.purpleculture.net/ en Copyright (c) 2026 Purple Culture purple@purpleculture.net (Purple Culture) purple@purpleculture.net (Purple Culture) Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:45:16 +0800 Purple Culture News RSS Feed 1440 A Key to Chinese Speech and Writing II (with audios) http://www.purpleculture.net/a-key-to-chinese-speech-and-writing-ii-with-audios-p-4283 http://www.purpleculture.net/a-key-to-chinese-speech-and-writing-ii-with-audios-pr-4283 This volume opens up new vistas for the further advancement of student's knowledge of Chinese, employing the same method as Volume I: a way of learning Chinese taking into account its uniqueness as a written language of characters. In 25 lessons an addition of 500 of the most frequently used characters is introduced in a wider context of about 4,000 words formed with them.
The total 900 characters introduced in the two volumes allow student's to recognize 90% of the Chinese characters met with in everyday reading.
Mastering this volume will enable you to reach a level corresponding to two years of university studies.
The contents of these texts are very diversified, including extracts from literature, Beijing opera themes, Chinese traditional medicine, advertisements, customs and traditions, newsbriefs, ancient tales, letters to the editor, etc....