Websters Chinese Simplified To English Crossword Puzzles: Level 1

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Even if you do not like crossword puzzles, you may end up loving these. Designed for mother-tongue or completely fluent speakers of Chinese Simplified wanting to improve their English skills, the puzzles may also be entertaining to English speakers. They are formatted so that each puzzle can be solved in 15 to 30 minutes. The vocabulary gradually becomes harder across puzzles thus increasing the challenge as you progress. Each book has 100 puzzles and each puzzle covers some 30 word pairs (equaling 3000 challenges!). These are truly pleasant, if not addictive, crossword puzzles for language learning. Learning a language is always difficult. To ease the pain, hints are provided in small script at the bottom of each page, though these are selected to prevent an engineered solution to the puzzle. Full solutions are provided in the back of the book. These two features (hints and verifiable solutions), force the reader to decipher a word’s meaning and serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. One recent reviewer of this series noted “As a Peace Corps Volunteer … this is definitely a fun way to keep up the language skills … The series has a whole bunch of "rarely spoken" languages, widely unknown to us in the Western world.” Another reviewer notes: “Good teacher as it has words listed below that are in puzzle so the clues are there if you need them.” Public domain translations for Chinese Simplified contributed to Webster’s Online Dictionary used in these puzzles may have originated from uncited volunteers, native speakers, professional translators, field linguists and academics (not by the editor of the puzzles). If you would like citation for any translations, make suggestions, note errors, or contribute in any other way, please email Philip M. Parker at INSEAD, who will update this series from time to time. Reproduction rights are granted to educators.

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Webster’s Chinese Simplified to English Crossword Puzzles Level 1 Designed for ESL, ELP, EFL, TOEFL , TOEIC and AP Learning TOEFL , TOEIC , AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. Webster’s Chinese Simplified to English Crossword Puzzles: Level 1 Designed for ESL, ELP, EFL, TOEFL®, TOEIC® and AP® Learning Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org) TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. 2 Published by ICON Group International, Inc. 7404 Trade Street San Diego, California 92121 www.icongrouponline.com This edition published by ICON Classics in 2005 Printed in the United States of America. Webster’s Chinese Simplified – English Level 1 Crossword Puzzles adapted for ESL, ELP, EFL, TOEFL®, TOEIC® and AP® Learning Copyright © Webster’s Chinese Simplified – English Level 1 Crossword Puzzles adapted for ESL, ELP, EFL, TOEFL®, TOEIC® and AP® Learning 2005 by Philip M. Parker All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. Should you want to copy tables, graphs, or other materials, please contact us to request permission (E-mail: [email protected]). ICON Group often grants permission for very limited reproduction of our publications for internal use, press releases, and academic research. Such reproduction req