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Basic Mandarin Chinese - Reading & Writing Practice Book

A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Written Chinese (Audio Recordings & Printable Flash Cards Included)

Cornelius C Kubler author Jerling Guo Kubler author

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Tuttle Publishing

Published:17th Oct '17

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This comprehensive Chinese character workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to enhance your Mandarin reading and writing skills dramatically!

No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills—plus an hour of native speaker audio recordings—to help you learn the 288 basic Chinese characters quickly and effectively.

This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading & Writing textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free companion media includes native-speaker audio recordings as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra exercises, activities and a set of 288 printable flash cards to help you learn the basic characters.

Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading and Writing Practice Book includes a wealth of carefully-designed activities designed to improve every aspect of your reading and writing skills, including:

  • Character writing practice sheets
  • Dictation, fill-in-the-blank, and dialog completion exercises
  • Answering questions, reading maps, converting written style to spoken style
  • Identifying radicals and phonetics, punctuating sentences
  • Writing tasks based on real-life schedules, photographs and name cards
  • Translation exercises
The helpful companion media includes:
  • Audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
  • Hundreds of printable practice pages
  • A printable set of 288 Chinese flashcards
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 Written Chinese: Practice Essentials.

All media content is accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.

"Outstanding for its carefully graduated presentation of material … and perhaps most important of all, its separation of the task of learning to speak the language from the very different processes of learning to read and write Chinese characters … The most exciting Chinese language textbook I have seen in many years." --Dr. James E. Dew, retired associate professor of Chinese, Univ. of Michigan; former Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei
"A breath of fresh air … Its dual track for spoken and written language finally gives American students a chance to develop oral proficiency without being slowed down by the character writing … An ideal textbook for any program that seeks to advance rapidly in spoken Chinese and to fully prepare the students for their encounter with China." --Dr. Jingqi Fu, Associate Professor of Chinese, St. Mary's College of Maryland
"Contextualized so learners know not only what to say, but why, when, and with whom it is appropriate to use such language -- thorough and clear -- refreshing." --Dr. Matthew Christensen, Associate Professor of Chinese, Brigham Young University

ISBN: 9780804847278

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 567g

224 pages

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