Mastering Chinese

The complete course for beginners

Catherine Hua Xiang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2010
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-0-230-20013-5 (ISBN)

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This new course teaches Mandarin Chinese to a broad range of learners in a modern, structured and engaging way. Its focus is on acquiring basic conversational skills. It also introduces the fascinating script and includes essential grammar, along with interesting cultural insights. Two CDs are also available.

With free-to-access audio online! This lively course teaches Mandarin Chinese to a broad range of learners in a modern, structured and engaging way.

The focus is on acquiring basic conversational skills, and the text has a friendly, non-formal style, building up gently with a wealth of lively, imaginative exercises. The text places some emphasis on correct pronunciation, as this is so important in Mandarin. It introduces right from the start the fascinating Chinese script and includes essential grammar, along with interesting cultural insights. Pinyin, the standard system of spelling using the Roman alphabet to transliterate Chinese, is also included to help build confidence.

The course is aimed at beginners with little or no previous knowledge of the language who want to begin to understand, speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese confidently.

This is all you would expect from a modern Mandarin Chinese language course but can't find!

CATHERINE HUA XIANG is East Asian Languages Coordinator at the LSE Language Centre, London where she is also Programme Director for the BSc International Relations and Chinese. She is also UK Director of the LSE Confucius Institute for Business London. She was previously Mandarin Chinese Coordinator, Language Centre, University of Bristol, UK.

How to use this book.- Introduction.- Getting Started.- Greetings and Introducing Yourself.- Introducing Family and Friends.- Numbers.- Review 1-4.- Dates and plans.- Time.- Shopping.- Eating and Drinking.- Review 5-8.- Transport and Directions.- Staying in a Hotel.- Leisure and Hobbies.- Making phone calls.- Review 9-12.- Answers.- Chinese-English word list.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Macmillan Master Series (Languages)
Reihe/Serie	Mastering Chinese
Zusatzinfo	190 Illustrations, black and white; II, 298 p. 190 illus.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	487 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-230-20013-3 / 0230200133
ISBN-13	978-0-230-20013-5 / 9780230200135
Zustand	Neuware