The Monkey's Paw: Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition

By: W.W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Zhang Xiuye

Length: 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang live with their grown son Guisheng who works at a factory. One day an old friend of Mr. Zhang comes to visit the family after having spent years traveling in the mysterious hills of China’s Yunnan Province. He tells the Zhang family of a monkey’s paw that has magical powers to grant three wishes to the holder. Against his better judgement, he reluctantly gives the monkey paw to the Zhang family, along with a warning that the wishes come with a great price for trying to change ones fate.....

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read 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.

Level 1 is written using approximately 300 unique Chinese characters and intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most listeners will be able to approach this book after one to two years of formal study, depending on the listener and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand story line that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language comprehension abilities.

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Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin Chinese.

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Nice listening for practicing comprehension

Interesting story with a decent pace. Vocabulary is perfect for reading comprehension. The narrator is a bit slow and unnatural, but clear.

Very helpful

I'm really enjoying the mandarin companion series. It really improves your listening comprehension in a fun way. The reading voice is clear and adds a little bit od character to the story.