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. An included disc 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, fillintheblank, 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 corresponding
CD-ROM includes:
- 64 minutes of nativespeaker audio.
- 288 printable flash cards.
Together with or after this book, you can use
Basic Spoken Chinese 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.
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.
A wealth of carefully-designed activities to power and polish your written Chinese