Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials

Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials

by Cornelius C. Kubler and Jerling Guo Kubler
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/12/2011

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Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide and Chinese workbook together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking.


No matter what book or course you're using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective practice activities to help polish your written Chinese. This book corresponds to Basic Written Chinese and allows you to move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency. Included downloadable content contains extensive audio material, as well as (printable) flash cards.


Practice Essentials includes carefully designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken Chinese skills, including:



  • Chinese character practice sheets.

  • Dictation, fill-in-the-blank, dialog completion.

  • Answering questions, map reading, converting written style to spoken style.

  • Identify radicals and phonetics; punctuating sentences.

  • Written tasks based on realia like schedule, photographs, and name cards.

  • Translation exercises.


The downloadable materials include:



  • 64 minutes of native-speaker audio.

  • 288 printable flash cards.


Together with this book, you can use the Basic Spoken Chinese series if you want to learn fluent spoken Mandarin.


About the Series: Respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler, who has taught diplomats, business people and students, presents a learning system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese. The materials in Basic Spoken Chinese allow you to move from complete beginner level to basic fluency.

ISBN:
9781462914654
9781462914654
Category:
Language: reference & general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-12-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
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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