Kubler (Asian studies, Williams College), who trained American diplomats in Chinese and other languages, offers a textbook on written Chinese to students and other readers taking classes or learning independently for business, travel, cultural studies, or other reasons. The text introduces 288 of the highest-frequency characters in their simplified and traditional forms and about 700 common words written with them, in the context of sentences and reading passages. It explains the structure of each character, contrasting them with similar characters, and includes character differentiation drills. Each lesson introduces six new characters and many words. The text is meant to be used with Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials and Basic Spoken Chinese and Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials. The CD contains recordings of readings, new characters, and new vocabulary, in addition to appendices of punctuation marks, characters with multiple pronunciations, a simplified-traditional character conversion table, and an English-Chinese glossary. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This is a beginning-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences.Along with its sister book,
Basic Written Chinese and their accompanying workbooks,
Basic Spoken Chinese offers a complete introductory course to the written Chinese language. As a native English speaker, working hard to learn Chinese characters is not enough; you have to work smart in order to learn this very different language efficiently. No matter why you've chosen to learn Chinesefor business, travel, cultural studies or another goalthe
Basic Chinese approach of two separate but integrated tracts in spoken and written Chinese will help you learn this language most efficiently and successfully.
Basic Written Chinese is designed so it can be used in a class with an instructor or by independent learners working on their own.
- Basic Written Chinese systematically introduces 288 of the highest frequency characters (in both their simplified and traditional forms) and over 700 common words written with them in context in sentences and a variety of reading passages to help you master basic Chinese reading and writing. This method will greatly improve your abilities to read Chinese and write Chinese
- The structure of each new character is explained in detail to make the learning of characters easier, and "look-alike" characters are compared and contrasted.
- Many lessons include character differentiation drills and some lessons include realia such as name cards, street signs, or email messages.
- Each lesson introduces 6 new characters and a number of words that are written using them. By dividing the leaning into small tasks, you maintain a sense of accomplishment rather than getting bogged down.
- You'll experience both printed and handwritten forms of characters, as well as several different printed fonts.
The accompanying
CDROM includes:
- Over 6 hours of audio by several native Mandarin speakers.
- Recordings of all reading selection.
- Additional characters.
- New vocabulary.
Available separately,
Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials is the companion workbook for
Basic Written Chinese. This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese. While designed for use with the companion textbook, it can be used together with any Chinese textbook or teaching program to hone your Chinese reading and writing language skills.
Basic Written Chinese is a beginning-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences. It teaches you to recognize the 600 most basic characters and 1,000 words used every day by millions of Chinese speakers. It explains the history and development of the writing system over many centuries, teaches you how Chinese characters are built up from more basic elements, and how to use those elements to write them, read them and remember them. All the characters presented in the lessons correspond to those in Basic Spoken Chinesethe companion volume which helps you acquire rapid proficiency in speaking the language.
Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials is the companion workbook for Basic Written Chinese. This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese. While designed for use with the companion textbook, it can be used together with any Chinese textbook or teaching program to hone your Chinese reading and writing language skills.
Acquire basic proficiency in written Mandarin through a proven, practical approach
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