It's great to know you have interest in Ancient chinese, which  uses another system of gramma, vocabulary. I am quite good at it cuz when I entered primary school I began to read a lot of ancient poems and short passages to cultivate the sense. I recommend you to begin with short poems, in this way you can get familiar with some basic words and the sentence structures, then you can find some classic short passage of ancient chinese to get deeper

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唐诗一百首，I used this book before

     I'll say no! Some of our history totally wrong. when i was a teenager, history books always makes me confused , I mean the textbooks. I travelled some of our nearly countries and museums . plus a little reading. i'm puzzled a make sense history. i realize too many books written by a power.

    otherwise, a few foreigners traveller written, a little better than ours.they didn't disturbed by governments. they are upon people.i hope i can hope you.

  good luck. have a nice days! 

Just a quick question for Francesca: I'm curious to know how far back in "ancient Chinese" are you thinking of studying? Every era has its peculiarities, and but much of what we read today are from the Tang and Song dynasties. 

One of the commentators mentioned Ximalaya. I find that app a fantastic repository for scholars and specialists in a wide variety of subjects, including poetry. Some require payment, but if you can download it, head over and listen to 蒙曼 (教授) 品最美唐詩。 Thats enough for a precursor to your studies.

I guess the rest would be from Baidu, if you can read through the dense explanations that usually accompany these poems.