Wikibooks

Joachim
 October 25, 2007, 08:09 PM posted in General Discussion

I came across some wikibooks to learn Chinese.

An extensive Grammar in German: http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinesische_Grammatik, some lessons in English: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese/ and some strange stuff in French: http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Enseignement_du_chinois.

Is anyone around here involved in any of these? What are your impressions?

I am slightly baffled by some of it, e.g. the English lesson on measure words: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese/Lesson_5. This just a list of measure words, not a lesson.

Btw: I stumbled across a transliteration for John 约翰 Yuēhàn. 

@John (one of them): Is that how your name is actually transliterated in Chinese?  

 

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AuntySue
 October 26, 2007, 12:01 AM

The reason that it has a list of measure words is because they wanted to make it easier for you when you write that lesson. You don't have to use that list, you can use your own, but it's a nice welcoming gesture so that a new contributing author doesn't have to face a totally blank page. But don't feel pressured. You could leave it there for the next person to finish off, and that's fine too.