Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Take your mastery of Mandarin Chinese to the next level with this comprehensive workbook and CD Learning to speak Mandarin Chinese requires many hours of practice -- there's just no way around it But by using this one-of-a-kind practice guide, together with whatever Chinese language-learning book or program you're already involved with, you can dramatically improve your ability to speak and comprehend spoken Chinese and Chinese grammar.
This book presents a wealth of tested and proven practice activities-including approximately 16 hours of audio recordings and over 200 pages of drills and exercises -- to help you polish your spoken Chinese to a solid intermediate level. It can be used successfully with any intermediate-level Chinese language learning book (such as Intermediate Spoken Chinese) and enables you to easily move from beginner to intermediate level proficiency in the language.
It's also extremely useful for people with plans to travel to China, or who wish to brush up and review their spoken Chinese in preparation for an exam.
Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes hundreds of activities that have been carefully designed to perfect and reinforce each aspect of your Chinese speaking and comprehension ability:
- Pronunciation exercises
- Vocabulary and grammar summaries
- Substitution drills
- Transformation and response drills
- Role play and listening comprehension exercises
- Dictation exercises
- Translation exercises
Also included on the disk are printable PDF files for dozens of additional pages of useful exercises.
If your goal is to learn Chinese at a higher level of mastery, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials offers the widest range of activities and drills for you to use on their own or pair with another textbook to reach your desired expertise.
Synopsis
This one-of-a-kind practice guide can be used with any Mandarin Chinese textbook or on its own to enhance your speaking and listening abilities dramatically No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice Here is a wealth of practical activities and drills--plus over 16 hours of audio recordings--to help you improve your spoken Mandarin quickly and efficiently.
This book is interchangeable with its earlier edition, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities.
This book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your Chinese language skills, including:
- Chinese grammar and vocabulary summaries
- Substitution drills
- Transformation and response drills
- Role-playing exercises
- Listening comprehension exercises
- Translation Exercises
The accompanying CD-ROM contains: - 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin-speakers
- Printable practice pages
- Printable exercises and activities
- All CD content is downloadable and streamable online