ChinesePod booklet: Release candidate 1
Okay so the booklet is now out of beta and into Release candidate!
I've made a much nicer version using PDF.
If you’re printing this PDF with Windows, make sure to select “Page Scaling = None” on the print options when you print.
This format has 8 pages.
Page one: Dialogue in Chinese characters only.
To be used for those who want full proficiency with their character reading.
Page two: Pinyin and English translation.
The flip side to page one if you need a quick reminder.
Page three: All the main dialogue vocabulary.
Try and make your own sentences using the the vocabulary.
Page four: Translation and pinyin for above.
The flip side providing you with a bit of extra help, or for those with no interest in characters.
Page five: Dialogue with characters and pinyin.
For beginners to get used to seeing characters while being able to read the pinyin.
Page six: The additional vocabulary from the website (thanks Connie!)
Page seven and eight are left blank for you to write notes or new sentences. You may want to make a new dialogue using Connie's vocabulary.
Folding instructions:
1. Fold page in half short edge to short edge.
2. Cut along the dotted line.
3. Fold page in half a second time, short edge to short edge.
4. Unfold completely and fold long edge to long edge.
5. squash the open diamond formed by the cut together making your booklet.
6. Fix any folds to make your booklet nice and flat.
Release Candidate 1 can be downloaded here.
**UPDATE** Release Candidate 2 can be downloaded here. Fixes orientation of text on pages.
Review version of the Newbie lesson can be found here.
I've made a much nicer version using PDF.
If you’re printing this PDF with Windows, make sure to select “Page Scaling = None” on the print options when you print.
This format has 8 pages.
Page one: Dialogue in Chinese characters only.
To be used for those who want full proficiency with their character reading.
Page two: Pinyin and English translation.
The flip side to page one if you need a quick reminder.
Page three: All the main dialogue vocabulary.
Try and make your own sentences using the the vocabulary.
Page four: Translation and pinyin for above.
The flip side providing you with a bit of extra help, or for those with no interest in characters.
Page five: Dialogue with characters and pinyin.
For beginners to get used to seeing characters while being able to read the pinyin.
Page six: The additional vocabulary from the website (thanks Connie!)
Page seven and eight are left blank for you to write notes or new sentences. You may want to make a new dialogue using Connie's vocabulary.
Folding instructions:
1. Fold page in half short edge to short edge.
2. Cut along the dotted line.
3. Fold page in half a second time, short edge to short edge.
4. Unfold completely and fold long edge to long edge.
5. squash the open diamond formed by the cut together making your booklet.
6. Fix any folds to make your booklet nice and flat.
**UPDATE** Release Candidate 2 can be downloaded here. Fixes orientation of text on pages.
Review version of the Newbie lesson can be found here.
Labels: ChinesePod, Lessons, Mandarin
posted by CharlesChinese at 3:19 AM
3 Comments:
Hi! Looks great, although it took me a while to understand your "squash the resulting diamond"...
Could you publish your template for anyon to fill with one's own content? I hope it is a widespread file format... in MS Word I could not find out how to have text boxes upside down.
Thanks, Cornelia
Cornelia, Yeah I really can't think of a better way to express that. I'm going to get my hands on a camera and make a pictorial instruction to help with that.
The biggest issue in word is positioning the text correctly and making sure that the boxes are the correct size. Excel does have some possibilities in this regard and I'll look into that but unfortunately this kind of work does lend itself to something along the lines of Illustrator (I use a free Open Source piece of software called Inkscape www.inkscape.org).
Hopefully I can come up with a more customizable solution in the future.
How are you generating this? It looks like a white sheet of paper on Mac OSX Preview!
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