Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking and listening skills. 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—including more than 16 hours of audio material!—to help polish your spoken Mandarin Chinese. This book corresponds to Basic Spoken Chinese and allows you to move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency. An included disc contains over 16 hours of audio material, as well as (printable) PDF files of hundreds of additional practice pages and exercises. Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes carefully designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken Chinese skills, including: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises .</li>
<li> Vocabulary and Grammar summaries .</li>
<li> Substitution drills .</li>
<li> Transformation and Response drills .</li>
<li> Role Play &amp; Listening Comprehension exercises .</li>
<li> Dictation exercises .</li>
<li> Translation exercises .</li>
</ul>The accompanying CD–ROM contains:<ul>
<li> 16 hours of audio by native Mandarin speakers.</li>
<li> Printable practice pages.</li>
<li> Printable exercises and activities.</li>
</ul>Together with or after this book, you can use Basic Written Chinese if you want to learn Chinese reading and writing. It introduces the highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way. 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 the Basic Spoken Chinese series allow you to move from complete beginner level to intermediate fluency.

Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials: An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (Audio Recordings & Printable Pages Included) (Basic Chinese)

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Kubler, Cornelius C.

汪洋

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Tuttle+publishing

You don't need characters to speak Chinese! In fact, for English speakers, learning the characters is an inefficient process and slows down your progress in learning to speak and listen to Chinese. Instead, use separate but integrated "tracks" to help you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese. Basic Spoken Chinese provides success at a beginning level of fluency. <ul>
<li>Unlike many textbooks, this book focuses on the challenges faced by native English-speaking students in learning Chinese. 
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<li> Detailed explanations in English of Chinese pronunciation, grammar, usage, culture, society, and recommended learning approaches. 
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<li> Included DVD offers videos featuring over 100 native speakers in many diverse Chinese-speaking societies, from mainland China and Taiwan to Singapore and Malaysia. This software program allows the learner to view 40 on-location, native-speaker videos of the book's 40 core Chinese conversations, and interact with them in various ways: user can select/replay any specific portions of the videos; can choose to also view the conversation in pinyin, Simplified Chinese characters, or Traditional Chinese characters (appears beside the video as each spoken line occurs); or can choose to mute any Chinese or American speaker's audio, to practice speaking along with the video 
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<li>An included Audio disc provides over 6 hours of native-speaker audio, including all of the book's conversations, build ups, new words, supplementary vocabulary, dialogues, and other key items. 
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<li>Teacher's Guide is available electronically. 
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<li>A written Character Transcript (Simplified and Traditional) is available electronically. 
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 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 Chinese allow you to move from complete beginner level to basic fluency.

Basic Spoken Chinese: An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners (DVD and MP3 Audio CD Included) (Basic Chinese)

Words, Language & Grammar

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 Spoken Chinese and their accompanying workbooks, Basic Written 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 to learn this very different language efficiently. No matter why you've chosen to learn Chinese—for business, travel, cultural studies or another goal—the Basic Chinese approach of two separate but integrated tracks 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.<ul>
<li> 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</li>
<li> 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.</li>
<li> Many lessons include character differentiation drills and some lessons include realia such as name cards, street signs, or email messages.</li>
<li> 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.</li>
<li> You'll experience both printed and handwritten forms of characters, as well as several different printed fonts.</li>
</ul>The accompanying MP3 audio CD includes:<ul>
<li> Over 6 hours of audio by several native Mandarin speakers.</li>
<li> Recordings of all reading selections.</li>
<li> Recordings of all new characters and new vocabulary.</li>
</ul>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: Move From Complete Beginner Level to Basic Proficiency (Audio Recordings Included)

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 Chinese—the 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.

Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials: An Introduction to Reading and Writing for Beginners (MP3 Audio CD and Printable Flash Cards Included)

Kubler, Jerling Guo

Welcome to the world's most effective method of learning Mandarin! This widely-acclaimed series continues to impress and inspire learners whether they're studying Chinese on their own, or in a classroom setting. Intermediate Spoken Chinese and the corresponding Practice Essentials allow you to experience real-life situations in different Mandarin-speaking locales. Each of the common situations explored here—from shopping at a market to playing unexpected phone tag—is one you're most likely to encounter as you interact with Chinese speakers. The breakthrough foundation of these books is that you don't need to know the characters in order to speak Chinese. This series provides separate "tracks" to help you master the skills of speaking and writing Chinese at your own pace. Some learners place greater emphasis on reading and writing, while others focus on developing a knowledge of spoken Chinese first, and then learn the characters. Both approaches are perfectly valid, and the one you adopt will depend on your personal goals and the amount of time you have for weekly study. This series allows you total flexibility in this regard. You may choose to use this as a stand-alone book, or in conjunction with Intermediate Written Chinese if you wish to learn the corresponding Chinese characters. The latter introduces the characters in this book in a systematic way. Key features of Intermediate Spoken Chinese:
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<li> Clear and detailed explanations of natural, colloquial Chinese pronunciation, grammar and usage</li>
<li> Recommended strategies to help you learn to speak Chinese more efficiently</li>
<li> Videos teach you real-life Chinese, the actual speaking styles of Chinese people in various parts of mainland China as well as Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia</li>
<li> Notes on Chinese culture and society allow you to understand situational etiquette</li>
<li> Discussions of challenges faced by English speakers who are learning Chinese and how to overcome them</li>
<li> Audio recordings by native speakers of all the vocabulary, dialogues, and other key items</li>
<li> A separate Teacher's Guide and a full character transcript (both Simplified and Traditional) are both available electronically</li>
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 An accompanying software program contains 56 videos shot on location. The software allows students to interact with the videos in various ways: to select/replay specific passages; to view the dialogues in Hanyu Pinyin, Simplified or Traditional characters as each line is spoken; and to mute a particular speaker's audio.

Intermediate Spoken Chinese: A Practical Approach to Fluency in Spoken Mandarin (DVD and MP3 Audio CD Included)

Take your mastery of Mandarin Chinese to the next level with this comprehensive workbook and CD! Learning to speak Mandarin Chinese requires many hours of practice — there's just no way around it! But by using this one-of-a-kind practice guide, together with whatever Chinese language-learning book or program you're already involved with, you can dramatically improve your ability to speak and comprehend spoken Chinese and Chinese grammar. This book presents a wealth of tested and proven practice activities-including approximately 16 hours of audio recordings and over 200 pages of drills and exercises — to help you polish your spoken Chinese to a high intermediate-level. It can be used successfully with any intermediate-level Chinese language learning book (such as Intermediate Spoken Chinese) and enables you to quickly move from beginner to intermediate level proficiency in the language. It's also beneficial for people with plans to travel to China, or who wish to brush up and review their spoken Chinese in preparation for an exam. Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes hundreds of activities that have been carefully designed to perfect and reinforce each aspect of your Chinese speaking and comprehension ability: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises</li>
<li> Vocabulary and grammar summaries</li>
<li> Substitution drills</li>
<li> Transformation and response drills</li>
<li> Role play and listening comprehension exercises</li>
<li> Dictation exercises</li>
<li> Translation exercises</li>
</ul>Also included on the disk are printable PDF files for dozens of additional pages of useful activities. If your goal is to learn Chinese at a higher level of mastery, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials offers the broadest range of activities and drills for you to use on their own or pair with another textbook to reach your desired expertise.

Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (DVD Included)

This is an intermediate-level course in written Chinese that employs a revolutionary new method designed to have you quickly reading and writing simple, connected Chinese sentences. The Basic Chinese and Intermediate Chinese books provide separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn to speak, read, and write Chinese efficiently at your own pace. Some students and teachers wish to emphasize speaking ability first, whereas others wish to focus on learning to speak, read, and write Chinese at the same time. Intermediate Written Chinese allows you the flexibility to learn the written language and the written Chinese at your own pace. <ul>
<li> Learn to use 336 high-frequency characters, and over 1,200 common words written with them.</li>
<li> Together with the 288 characters and 700 words introduced in Basic Written Chinese, a total of 624 characters and more than 1,900 words are formally taught in this two-volume course.</li>
<li> In addition, another 199 supplementary characters and over 700 supplementary words are introduced for extra learning, meaning that you will have encountered a grand total of 823 characters and over 2,600 words by the end of this course.</li>
<li> Carefully designed to have you quickly reading and writing connected Chinese sentences.</li>
<li> Each lesson introduces six new characters and a number of words written with them. By dividing the learning into small tasks, you attain a sense of accomplishment rather than getting bogged down.</li>
<li> The structure and etymology of each new character is explained in detail to make the learning of characters easier, and similar characters are compared and contrasted.</li>
<li> Some lessons include realia such as photographs of street signs, name cards, e-mail messages, and handwritten notes.</li>
<li> Both simplified and traditional characters are taught throughout; you may choose to learn one or both.</li>
<li> Features a variety of fonts in both typeset and handwritten styles, to prepare you to use Chinese in many different contexts—from reading signs and newspapers to computers and mobile phone texts.</li> </ul>
The accompanying CD-ROM includes:<ul>
<li> Over 6 hours of audio by several native Mandarin speakers.</li>
<li> Recordings of all reading selections.</li>
<li> Recordings with the pronunciations of all new characters and words.</li>
<li> Additional lessons and reading selections.</li>
</ul>Available separately, Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials is the companion workbook for Intermediate Written Chinese. This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese dramatically. 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 skills.

Intermediate Written Chinese: Read and Write Mandarin Chinese As the Chinese Do (Includes MP3 Audio & Printable PDFs)

Part of the widely-used and highly acclaimed Kubler series, The Basic Chinese and Intermediate Chinese books provide separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn to read, write and speak Chinese efficiently, at your own pace. Some students and teachers wish to emphasize speaking ability first, whereas others want to focus on learning to read and write Chinese at the same time. These Chinese language study books allow you the flexibility to acquire the spoken language and the written language with the method that best fits your needs. With the internationally-recognized Kubler system and accompanying CD-ROM, you will: 
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<li> Learn to use 288 high-frequency Chinese characters, and over 700 popular words written with them</li>
<li> Find yourself quickly reading and writing sentences with the correct Chinese grammar</li>
<li> Be taught both simplified and traditional characters; you may choose to learn one or both</li>
<li> Recognize a variety of fonts in both typeset and handwritten styles, to prepare you to use Chinese in many different contexts-from reading signs and newspapers, to computers and mobile phone texts</li>
<li> Listen to hours of native-speaker recordings on the enclosed CD-ROM, and have access to practice sheets and printable flashcards</li>
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Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials stands out among Chinese books and textbooks for its dynamic study system and practical exercises, which will assist you in learning Chinese quickly and comfortably.

Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials: Read and Write Mandarin Chinese As the Chinese Do (CD-ROM of Audio & Printable PDFs for more practice)

This is the complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you speaking quickly and accurately! The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory Chinese language course specifically designed for native English speakers. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and written forms of Chinese at different speeds depending on your available time and interest. The free audio and video recordings included with this book reinforce the content and make the learning process easy. Whether you're learning Mandarin for work, travel or other reasons—the Basic Mandarin Chinese approach of having two separate but integrated "tracks" helps you to learn the language more efficiently and more successfully. Key features of this Chinese textbook and discs include:<ul>
<li> Clear and detailed pronunciation, grammar and cultural explanations</li>
<li> Exercises and activities based on real-life experiences in China</li>
<li> Hours of video recordings filmed on location featuring dozens of native speakers in various parts of China and beyond</li>
<li> Six hours of native-speaker audio recordings for all the book's dialogues and exercises</li>
<li> Special software allowing you to interact with the recordings.</li>
</ul>This Mandarin textbook is designed to be used with its separately available workbook, Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking &amp; Listening Practice Book which provides a range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your spoken proficiency and improve your Chinese language skills. This book is a new edition of Basic Spoken Chinese.

Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking & Listening Textbook: An Introduction to Spoken for Beginners (Audio & Video Recordings Included)

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Programming

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 &amp; Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities. Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking &amp; Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including: <ul>
<li> Pronunciation exercises</li>
<li> Vocabulary and Grammar summaries</li>
<li> Substitution drills</li>
<li> Transformation and Response drills</li>
<li> Role Playing and Listening Comprehension</li>
<li> Dictation exercises</li>
<li> Translation exercises</li>
</ul>The accompanying disc contains:<ul>
<li> 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers</li>
<li> Printable practice pages</li>
<li> Printable exercises and activities</li> </ul>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.

Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (Audio Recordings Included)

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