Chinese Text Sampler that I found

[paike]

As title suggests, just something I ran into. Probably some of the old chinese-learning hands have run across it, but I hadn't

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html

Has a lot of nice articles in it that are easy to print and read.

Pai Ke

[tooironic]

Yep, that's an oldie but a goodie.

[renzhe]

It was my first contact with Chinese literature. I read "手" and "药" there. Those were the first things I've read, actually.

[abcdefg]

Has a lot of nice articles in it that are easy to print and read.

The text of the home page links to another source I found useful:

Looking for Simpler Readings:

For additional readings at the beginner and intermediate levels, visit the Chinese Voices Project website. http://www.clavisinica.com/voices.html

Both are good sites, and I didn't know about them before your post, so thanks. I'm an abysmally poor reader and am always on the lookout for interesting but easy texts like many of these.

[animal world]

I wasn't familiar either with these two sites and they look just what i'm interested in. So, thanks for starting this thread, Paike.