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Elementary Mandarin Chinese Workbook: Learn to Speak, Read and Write Chinese the Easy Way! (Companion Audio)

Elementary Mandarin Chinese Workbook: Learn to Speak, Read and Write Chinese the Easy Way! (Companion Audio)

Biographical Note: Cornelius C. Kubler, Ph.D is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College, where he teaches Chinese and for many years chaired the Department of Asian Studies. He...

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Biographical Note:
Cornelius C. Kubler, Ph.D is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College, where he teaches Chinese and for many years chaired the Department of Asian Studies. He was formerly Chinese Language Training Supervisor and Chair of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, where he trained American diplomats in Chinese and other languages, and he served for six years as Principal of the American Institute in Taiwan Chinese Language & Area Studies School. Kubler, who has directed intensive Chinese language training programs in the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan, has been active in Chinese language test development and has authored or coauthored over 13 books and 50 articles on Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics. He lives in Williamstown, MA.

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  • The most up-to-date and complete single-volume textbook and workbook for Mandarin learners
  • Intended for beginning students with no prior knowledge of the language
  • Incorporates conversations, grammar notes, exercises and readings--in Chinese characters as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation
  • Native speaker audio and video recordings are provided for listening and speaking practice in different accents
Author's perspective of advantages of this textbook over competitive textbooks for Chinese:
  • Elementary Mandarin Chinese is designed for beginning learners in programs that move at a more relaxed, more comfortable pace--not intensive or semi-intensive programs where students have class each day and must do several hours of homework.
  • Each lesson is short and focuses on the highest frequency, most important language content and grammatical explanations, omitting less common words and nonessential grammatical details. This makes Chinese language learning more manageable.
  • The language presented is up-to-date, natural, and authentic.
  • There is an emphasis on practical and immediately useful language.
  • The textbook is convenient to use, with all 4 skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) presented together in one volume.
  • It's also more convenient for instructors to use, since almost everything is in Chinese characters (as well as Pinyin and English).
  • The textbook and practice book are accompanied by many hours of audio and video files.


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Learn Chinese through clear, structured practice that actually builds usable skills.

Elementary Mandarin Chinese Workbook is a focused practice book for beginners learning Chinese. It develops core language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing through graded, step-by-step exercises.

The workbook includes twenty-two lessons designed to build confidence from the ground up. It can be used on its own or alongside Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook, depending on how you choose to study.

Pinyin is used throughout, and free online audio recordings support all listening exercises. The progression is designed to take you from sound and script recognition into real reading and writing practice, step by step.

This compact volume features:
  • Twenty-two carefully graded lessons
  • Listening comprehension and translation practice
  • Chinese character recognition and writing exercises
  • Reading and writing tasks designed for beginners

Early lessons introduce Pinyin pronunciation, basic classroom expressions, and 48 fundamental Chinese characters. From Lesson 3 onward, each lesson is split into two parts, each combining listening, translation, character writing, and reading practice.

Cornelius C. Kubler is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College and a former Language Training Supervisor at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. He has taught Chinese for decades and is the author or coauthor of numerous books on Chinese language learning and linguistics.

Author: Kubler, Cornelius C
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2020-04-14
BISAC: Language Study / Chinese|Language Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing Systems|Travel / Asia / East - China|Language Arts & Disciplines / Spelling & Vocabulary|Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
Subjects: Mandarin dialects|Chinese language|Dialects|English|English language|Chinese
Weight: 1.1 lbs
ISBN: 9780804851251
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780804851251

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