Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials : An Introduction to Speaking and Listening for Beginners

922 Pages·2014·1.46 MB·English

by  Cornelius C. Kubler

CORNELIUS C. KUBLER & YANG WANG
TUTTLE Publishing
Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore
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Copyright © 2011 Cornelius C. Kubler and Yang Wang
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ISBN: 978-1-4629-1464-7 (ebook)
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A Note to the Learner
When it comes to learning Chinese, practice is essential, of
course. This workbook offers you many options for practicing
and polishing your language skills, and was designed to be
used in conjunction with the book Basic Spoken Chinese.
However, it may be used to hone speaking skills no matter
which book or course you’re using to learn Chinese.
There are no Chinese characters to be found here because you
don’t need characters to learn to speak Chinese. In fact,
learning the characters for everything you learn to say is an
inefficient way to learn Chinese, one that significantly slows
down your progress.
To help you learn to speak and understand Chinese as
efficiently as possible, this workbook gives you the Chinese
language portions not via characters, but instead through
audio featuring native speakers (on the accompanying disc).
And in the pages of this book, the Chinese is represented in
Hanyu Pinyin, the official Chinese romanization system.
• If you wish to learn Chinese reading and writing, which is
certainly to be recommended for most learners, you
should—together with or after the spoken course—use the
companion course Basic Written Chinese. It corresponds with
Basic Spoken Chinese and systematically introduces the
highest-frequency characters (simplified and traditional) and
words in context in sentences and reading passages as well as
in realia such as street signs, notes, and name cards.
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• For instructors and those learners with prior knowledge of
Chinese characters, a Basic Spoken Chinese: Character
Transcription is also available. It contains transcriptions into
simplified and traditional characters of Basic Spoken Chinese.
Please note that the character transcription is not intended,
and should not be used, as the primary vehicle for beginning
students to learn reading and writing.
• The Basic Chinese Instructor’s Guide contains detailed
suggestions for using these materials as well as
communicative exercises for use by instructors in class or by
tutors during practice sessions.
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Contents
1. A Note to the Learner
2. How to Use These Materials
3. Abbreviations
4. 1. New Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries
5. 2. Substitution Drills
6. Substitution Drills Unit 4, Part 4 – Unit 10,
Part 4
7. 3. Transformation and Response Drills
8. Transformation and Response Drills Unit
3, Part 3 – Unit 10, Part 4
9. 4. Role Play Exercises
10. 5. Listening Comprehension Exercises
11. 6. Dictation Exercises
12. 7. Translation Exercises, Units 1–10: For Each Part
(Lesson)
13. 8. Translation Exercises, Units 1–10: For Each
Complete Unit
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Every section includes practice materials for these 10 topics:
Unit 1: Greetings and Useful Phrases
Unit 2: Introductions
Unit 3: Numbers, Dates, Time, and Money (I)
Unit 4: Numbers, Dates, Time, and Money (II)
Unit 5: Locating Persons, Places, and Things
Unit 6: Biographical Information (I)
Unit 7: Biographical Information (II)
Unit 8: Getting Around Beijing (I)
Unit 9: Getting Around Beijing (II)
Unit 10: Weather
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