Sinolingua virtual library

[Geiko]

During the whole month of April Sinolingua is giving free access to its Graded Readers through their Virtual Library, to make our confinement more profitable and fun.

 

 https://virtual-library.sinolingua.com.cn/library

 

(From Sinolingua's Twitter account, @sinolingua1) 

[mungouk]

It appears you can also download the MP3s for these books.

 

See instructions at http://www.sinolingua.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=14&id=4

 

 

[Balthazar]

Maybe my browse-fu skills are lacking, but are only the lower (<500 words) level books available for reading online? According to the graded reader thread, there should be higher levels (up to 2 500 words) books available from Sinolingua.

 

Edit: My bad, by clicking "Category" on the top bar you're able to select higher level books.

[mungouk]

You have to register/login to read them, but yes.  The website is rather hard to navigate.

 

Go to the  Category menu and you should see HSK levels and number of words:

 

 

For example here's Outlaws of the Marsh (abridged), one of the two books under the "Level 6: 2500 words" category.

 

 

 

[Balthazar]

Thanks, just found it myself ?

[Balthazar]

By the way, does the "Zoom In" function work for you? It doesn't for me.

 

(Would love to be able to read on my Kindle instead. I can understand why they don't allow you to download the epub-files, though.)

[Jan Finster]

25 minutes ago, Balthazar said:

Would love to be able to read on my Kindle instead. I can understand why they don't allow you to download the epub-files, though

 

Just copy/paste them to wherever you like with Strg+c ?

 

[mungouk]

Zoom in/out works for me on the Chrome browser, yes.

[Balthazar]

I'm on Firefox (and Ubuntu), not working here. Might just boot into Windows and use Chrome later then.

 

@Jan Finster: I had no idea Germans refer to ctrl as "Steuerungstaste". Thanks for the tip ?