Basic Mandarin Chinese - Reading & Writing Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Written Chinese (MP3 Audio CD and Printable Flash Cards ... Recordings & Printable Flash Cards Included) - Softcover

Cornelius C Kubler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804847274 ISBN 13: 9780804847278

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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

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 disc contains audio recordings as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra exercises and 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 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 accompanying disc contains:
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 successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning.

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About the Author

Cornelius C. Kubler received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell and is currently the Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College. Since joining Williams, he has chaired the Department of Chinese and held visiting professor posts at Middlebury, National Taiwan Normal University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and other universities. He has authored many books and articles on Chinese pedagogy and linguistics, and served as a consultant for many Chinese language programs in the U.S. and abroad including orientation programs for Chinese language teachers arriving in the U.S. He has chaired the SAT Chinese exam Test Development Committee and recently completed a two-year stint as Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Nanjing University Center for Chinese & American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Jerling Guo Kubler is a graduate of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Soochow University in Taipei. Her experience in language education spans several decades and she has taught Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language all levels from pre-kindergarten to university level at institutions in the U.S. and Taiwan including Williams College, Eisenhower College and the Taipei Language Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804847274
• ISBN 13: 9780804847278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224