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Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking and Listening Practice Book

Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking and Listening Practice Book

A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (CD-ROM Included)

by Cornelius C. Kubler and Yang Wang
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2017

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This comprehensive Mandarin workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin speaking and listening skills.

No matter what textbook you're using to learn Mandarin, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills--plus over 16 hours of audio recordings--to help you improve your spoken Mandarin Chinese quickly and effectively.

This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese--Speaking & Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free companion resources contain hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities.

Basic Mandarin Chinese--Speaking & Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including:

  • Pronunciation exercises
  • Vocabulary and Grammar summaries
  • Substitution drills
  • Transformation and Response drills
  • Role Playing and Listening Comprehension
  • Dictation exercises
  • Translation exercises
The companion media kit contains:
  • 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
  • Printable practice pages
  • Printable exercises and activities
About the Basic Mandarin Chinese series:
Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades--using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning. This book is a new edition of Basic Spoken Chinese: Practice Essentials.

All media content is accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.

ISBN:
9780804847254
9780804847254
Category:
Language: reference & general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
254x190.5x14.99mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Cornelius C. Kubler

Cornelius C. Kubler is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College where he chaired the Department of Asian Studies for many years. He is concurrently Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, China. Kubler previously directed the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department, where he trained diplomats in Chinese and other languages. He served as Principal of the American Institute in Taiwan's Chinese Language & Area Studies School for six years and has directed Chinese language teacher training programs in the U.S., mainland China and Taiwan. He has been active in test development and has authored or coauthored 31 books and over 60 articles on Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics. He lives and teaches in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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