Paint feet on a snake: an intermediate Mandarin reader - Softcover

This book, available in both a simplified and a full-form character edition, is designed to help low-intermediate students of Mandarin improve their vocabulary and grammar competence, reading strategies, and translation skills. It uses Chinese idiomatic proverbs as the foundation of the instructional material, which allows the authors to present their lessons in a more dynamic fashion than the typical grammar-and-translation approach.

This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings. Paint Feet on a Snake *is available in full-form and simplified character editions *is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items *is suitable for language acquisition programs and for programs combining linguistic and cultural competence *has been optimized in pilot editions at Leiden University Lin Chin-hui is lecturer in Mandarin at the University of Göttingen Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University