Basic Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (Audio Recordings Included)
Language: English
Published by Tuttle Publishing, 2017
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- Title
- Basic Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (Audio Recordings Included)
- Author
- Kubler, Cornelius C.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804847258
- ISBN 13
- 9780804847254
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 & Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recordings as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities.
Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking & Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including:
Pronunciation exercises
Vocabulary and grammar summaries
Substitution drills
Transformation and response drills
Role playing and listening comprehension
Dictation exercises
Translation exercises
The accompanying disc contains:
16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
Printable practice pages
Printable exercises and activities
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
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.
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