Practical Chinese Reader, III (Mandarin Chinese Edition) (English and Chinese Edition)

Due to its old age and the advent of the New Practical Chinese Reader, I don't recommend this book as a main textbook, but as a supplement for those in their 4th to 5th semester of college Chinese, this is an excellent supplement. The readers are no longer short as they are in the first two volumes of PCR, but they are longer and more interesting. Each of the 15 chapters introduces around 60 new vocabulary words and topics range from talking about travel plans to Taiji to family. Although the book is outdated, most of the information is pretty good. And in keeping with the tradition of the PCR series, the grammar explanations are EXCELLENT. Example sentences are used to further illustrate the usage of certain words and grammatical structure, and a glossary index of the vocabulary words is in the back of the book. Overall, an excellent supplement.