Practical Chinese Reader
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[edit] The Practical Chinese Reader
The Practical Chinese Reader are a series of Chinese language teaching books developed to teach foreign-language speakers to speak Chinese. The reader follows the antics of Palanka and Gubo through various stages. The PCR is administered by the Chinese Department of Culture and most students of Mandarin in a classroom setting probably have contact with the book. The course consists of a Chinese reader, character workbook and grammar workbook.
[edit] The New Practical Chinese Reader
The Chinese Practical Reader was more replaced by this newer edition in 1981. Older words were removed but the sentence structure and gramar remains intact. There are currently six volumes. [1] This book pays homage to the older edition by introducing a new character, Libu, who is the son of Gubo and Palanka.
[edit] The Characters
Gubo (古波): One of the main characters. The name's transliteration is unceartain but Cooper has been suggested.
Palanka (帕蘭卡): Gubo's friend. Chosen as a Western sounding name.
Ding Yun (丁云): Gubo's girl friend.
Ding Libu (丁力波): Ding Yun's son. (Introduced in the NPCR)
Page two of the NPRC reads:
A Canadian Student, aged 21, male Gubo is his father Ding Yun is his mother
In accordance with keeping the dialouge the same, the characters are given universal names in translations of the book across all languages.
[edit] Links
PCR Student resources; vocabulary lists, dialouge, etc: [2]
