The Eating the Dragon series combines the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) word lists with a modern supplemental vocabulary, expands individual characters not in the HSK lists, and presents it all in frequency order according to an extensive corpus of modern informational Chinese. Picking up where other frequency-based approaches leave off, this volume presents readers with a progressive approach to acquiring new vocabulary in which each lesson builds upon characters learned in previous lessons. Supplemental vocabulary has been selected to be appropriate to the level of each lesson as well.
Volume 1: Elementary and Intermediate includes 2,874 HSK level 1 (A1 Elementary) through 4 (B2 Intermediate) and supplemental characters, words, and phrases in 47 lessons. [252 pages, 7.4 x 9.7 inches]
Volume 2: Advanced I includes 2,922 HSK level 5 (C1 Advanced) and supplemental characters, words, and phrases in 51 lessons. [260 pages, 7.4 x 9.7 inches]
Volume 3: Advanced II includes 5,974 HSK level 6 (C2 Advanced) and supplemental characters, words, and phrases in 100 lessons. [456 pages, 7.4 x 9.7 inches]
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[Updated 2012-04-08] Broken links have been repaired.
- List of HSK vocabulary used in the making of the ETD series.
- Frequency data used in the making of the ETD series, based upon 10,245,100 n-grams found on the People’s Daily website
- Downloadable flashcards in UTF-8 encoded text format, suitable for smartphone flashcard apps
- The complete ETD series of lessons in UTF-8 encoded text format
Problems with the download links should be fixed now. Sorry to everyone for the error!