Practical Chinese for English Speakers ( Par t One and Pa rt Two) is designed for English speakers, who are a large market for learning Chinese as a second language. Unlike Chinese students, English speakers are used to a phonetic writing system. What they read is what they hear. When they see a word they expect its letters to tell them how to pronounce the word and to recognize its meaning. Thus English speakers initially find Chinese characters to be meaningless because they cannot sound out Chinese characters. Instead, they have to find the pronunciations through pinyin and then find the meanings. Therefore English speakers need extra time to learn to connect the graphic shapes of Chinese characters with their pronunciation. To them, learning Chinese is like learning two languages: one is for speaking and listening, and one is for reading and writing. This book employs a variety of teaching methods to make learning Chinese easier for English speakers. For example, the pinyin is printed directly under or beside each Chinese character instead of separating the Chinese character text from the pinyin text. We believe that if English speakers make the effort to connect Chinese characters with their sounds in the first year of study, they can more rapidly learn to read Chinese characters with the help of pinyin. Other teaching-learning methods used in this textbook are introduced in the following section.
This set of elementary Chinese textbooks is written for the English-speaking foreigners undertaking a short-term study in China. There are two volumes. each including 10 units. Each unit has following parts: essential words; text; new words; English translation of the text; pronunciation and grammar annotation with English translation; paraphrases exercises; practices; culture background; exercises of Chinese character components. The characteristics of the textbooks are: 1) concise and systematical introduction of the basic knowledge on Chinese pronunciations and Chinese characters; 2) practical orientation: the topics of the texts are all close related to the daily life. and the most useful ones will be taught first. such as: recognizing Chinese numbers. exchanging money. going to restaurant. shopping. telephoning. hairdressing and transportation; 3) various forms of exercises. covering listening. speaking. reading. writing and translating: there are 5 kinds of sentence patterns to be used in paraphrasing; the part of practices includes listening practices. simulating practices. translation practices and situation practices; the exercises of Chinese character components help the students better remember the Chinese words by writing them down. The textbooks are to be used by the very beginners for 40-50 hours. Each volume also has the new words. vocabulary and keys to parts of the exercises. Tapes are available.
This book is written foreigners learn Chinese Oral Chinese Textbooks. Named "Road", is wanted for learners proved a straight-through access to basic speaking ability of the road, and avoid unnecessary twists and turns. Upper and lower two 35 lessons. Each lesson from the typical range of sentences, will live, words, comments, language points Explained, exercises and supplementary sentence of seven parts. Full copies of daily communication function has jurisdiction over the project over 30, 900 words or so, the basic language points and usages of common words in more than 100 articles.
Since it is an oral teaching, we should focus on cultivating learners' ability to use the Chinese language in oral communication. Book communicative function as the key link, in order to explain language points supplement. In the corpus of choice, pay attention to practicality and period features language. Fan used Chinese sentence will strive to select the most basic, the most commonly used. The most vivid part of everyday life through scenes unfolded. Fresh is catchy, easy to remember there are more scenes. The same range of sentences and words with several replacement, aims to enable learners to master the science sentence, in familiar situations and contexts, for semantic choose what you want to express the proper, decent language form, in order to achieve meaning and form reasonable, starting from the semantic sentence sought to explore a practical way. Thus, in the authenticity of the language must be very particular about. Language book should be natural, true, reasonable, it is present in real life, rather than artificially fabricated language. This book attempts to do in this regard.
Adult learning a foreign language or a second language is a characteristic of the rules to pursue, and thus to rule by analogy to express their own thoughts. Although Chinese syntax rules, but flexible. The syntax of this book is neither to pursue systematic and not do too much explanation, the phenomenon of language interpretation, as concise, go beyond that. Some positive and negative sentences added by judging right and wrong to help learners learn the language point to deepen understanding and mastery.
This book dedicates to the training of speaking skills, supplemented with explanation of language points. The most common and fresh language materials are presented through simulated real-life situations. Substitution of sentence components provides training for flexible usage of sentences. Altogether there are 35 lessons, each of which contains example sentences, conversation, new words, annotations, notes on language points, exercises and supplementary sentences. It covers more than 30 communicative functions, approximately 900 new words, as well as more than 100 basic language tips and explanations of daily words or phrases. This book is written foreigners learn Chinese Oral Chinese Textbooks. Named "Road", is wanted for learners proved a straight-through access to basic speaking ability of the road, and avoid unnecessary twists and turns. Upper and lower two 35 lessons. Each lesson from the typical range of sentences, conversation, words, comments, language points Explained, exercises and supplementary sentence of seven parts. Full copies of daily communication function has jurisdiction over the project over 30, 900 words or so, the basic language points and usages of common words in more than 100 articles. Since it is an oral teaching, we should focus on cultivating learners' ability to use the Chinese language in oral communication. Book communicative function as the key link, in order to explain language points supplement. In the corpus of choice, pay attention to practicality and period features language. Fan used Chinese sentence will strive to select the most basic, the most common and the most vivid parts and unfolded through daily life scenes. Fresh is catchy, easy to remember there are more scenes. The same range of sentences and words with several replacement, aims to enable learners to master the science sentence, in familiar situations and contexts, for semantic choose what you want to express the proper, decent language form, in order to achieve meaning and form reasonable, starting from the semantic sentence sought to explore a practical way. Thus, in the authenticity of the language must be very particular about. Language book should be natural, true, reasonable, it is present in real life, rather than artificially fabricated language. This book attempts to do in this regard. Adult learning a foreign language or a second language is a characteristic of the rules to pursue, and thus to rule by analogy to express their own thoughts. Although Chinese syntax rules, but flexible. The syntax of this book is neither to pursue systematic and not do too much explanation, the phenomenon of language interpretation, as concise, go beyond that. Some positive and negative sentences added by judging right and wrong to help learners learn the language point to deepen understanding and mastery.
Complements the textbook Road: Chinese Conversation For Foreigners.This is an oral short-term training program focusing on daily communication. It covers more than 30 communicative functions and approximately 900 new words as well as more than 100 basic key points of language and explanations of daily words/phrases. This software contains multimedia teaching functions such as cartoon demonstrations, word searches, character tracing, interactive exercises, crystal clear pronunciation for every Chinese character, fast voice playback, and so on. A pinyin module and a mini-dictionary module will help learners to learn Chinese easily.
A Practical Chinese Grammar for Foreigners was first published in 1988 and has been reprinted for many times and has achieved widespread influence. This book is the revised edition which makes important and valuable modification to the original edition based on the suggestions and comments of the teachers and students. Mirror Link This book gives concise, detailed and explicit explanations of the grammar points. In the aspect of content, besides introducing the most basic and practical grammatical rules, it also has more practical chapters such as “How to make comparisons” and “How to emphasize”. In the aspect of style, each chapter has a part entitled “Attention should be paid to…” which deals with a particular issue. Detailed and practical tables and sample sentences including the erroneous sentences for contrast are provided.
