Description
- Pronunciation exercises
- Vocabulary and Grammar summaries
- Substitution drills
- Transformation and Response drills
- Role Playing and Listening Comprehension
- Dictation exercises
- Translation exercises
- 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
- Printable practice pages
- Printable exercises and activities
Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades--using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated tracks to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning. This book is a new edition of Basic Spoken Chinese: Practice Essentials. All disc content is alternatively accessible on tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.
Author: Cornelius C. Kubler, Yang Wang
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 10/17/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780804847254
ISBN10: 0804847258
BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | Chinese
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching
About the Author
Cornelius C. Kubler received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell and is currently the Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College. Since joining Williams, he has chaired the Department of Chinese and held visiting professor posts at Middlebury, National Taiwan Normal University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and other universities. He has authored many books and articles on Chinese pedagogy and linguistics, and he served as a consultant for many Chinese language programs in the U.S. and abroad, including orientation programs for Chinese language teachers arriving in the U.S. He has chaired the SAT Chinese exam Test Development Committee and recently completed a two-year stint as Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Nanjing University Center for Chinese & American Studies in Nanjing, China.