verdastelo wrote:Because this thread is about Italian, I'll end with two Italian books: Breve introduzione alla lingua cinese classica and Corso introduttivo di lingua cinese classica. Maurizio Scarpari is the author of both. Outside of East Asia, how many languages can you find Classical Chinese learning manuals in? I have found such manuals in English (most recent being Kai Vogelsang's Introduction to Classical Chinese), French (most recent is the two-volume Manuel de chinois classique of Léon Vandermeersch), German, Russian, and Italian! I have found nothing of that sort in much larger languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Persian.
Wow. It's true, after spending a while trying, I really can't find any in Spanish.
*Someone* should get on that, pronto...