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Speed-up Chinese

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Speed-up Chinese strives to overcome the above mentioned deficiency and to integrate the two as aan organic whole. When situation of a conversational topic is used as the guiding principle to constitutes the content of the teaching material, the first-ratae grammar point (133points) of the Chinese Level Examination (HSK) is added as the basis of arranging language knowledge. The book also tries to achieve the link-up and transition with second rate grammar point. This book lay particular emphasis on fostering the listening and speaking ability of the learner. rnrnSpeed-up Chinese divides everyday pharaseology into 15 situations of conversational topics (greetings and introduction, school life, travelling, time and date, take a car, at the hotel, interview and sojourn, purchase of things, seasons and weather, illness and health, diet, discussion of questions, interest and hobby, trading, learning Chinese). Every lesson teaches part of the phraseology of each conversational topic. There are altogether 45 lessons. Every 15lessons are a cycle. The first 15 lessons have got the most basic contents among the 15 conversational topics. Mastering it will enable the learner to make some simple Chinese communications. The latter two 15 lessons develop gradually on this foundation, allowing the 15 conversational topics to be enriched and intensified. The third cycle prepares particularly for learners some commercial trade phraseology. Every lesson consists of five parts: basic sentence pattern, text, annotation, exercises, new words. The text is mainly in the conversational mode, It is designed to train the listening and speaking ability. Short narrative essays are included from Lesson 8, to train the reading comprehension ability. All texts come along with English translations. Hanyu Pinyin has been filled in for all the conversations in the texts, as well as for the short, narrative essays before Lesson 15. The texts and sentence patterns are accompanied with concise and practical annotations, explaining grammatical phenomena. Each lesson has got 10 sentence patterns, approximately 18 new words, so there are 450 sentence patterns altogether, approximately 800 Chinese phrases. The arrangemnt of vocabulary and grammar points in this book follow the principle of progress step by step. Exquisite picture are included for the convenience of the learner. This text has accompanying audiotapes. rnrnSpeed-up Chinese is applicable for classroom-teaching. If the planned schedule of two lessons per week is followed, this book can be completedin six months. The teacher can arbitrarily select any cycle (15 lessons) to teach on the basis of the different conditions of the students. This book can be a conversational handbook 100, capable of meeting the different needs of individuals who are willing study Chinese on their own.

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Series Title

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Call Number

495.1 PEK s

Publisher

Peking : Peking University Press., 1997

Collation

402 p.: ill.; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

7-301-03260-9

Classification

Chinese/Bahasa China, Bahasa Mandarin

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Edition

Cet.3, 1997

Subject(s)

chinese
hanyu, pinyin

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