Description
This spoken Chinese course for beginners has the following feathers:
- The texts, sentence patterns and vocabulary are all given in pinyin spelling. This is to make it easier for students to learn spoken Chinese using a romanized spelling which is easy to master. Although the corresponding Chinese characters are also provided under the pinyin version of the words, the student is not required to maser them at this stage.
- Each text centres on a topic useful for daily communication. This functional approach is reinformed with carefully tailored grammatical explanations which proceed systematically from the simple to the more difficult and complex language points.
- Incorporated in the exercises are time-honoured oral training methods: sentence pattern and substitution drills. The patterns are laid out in a format which makes them clear and easy to remember. This is a unique feature of this book.
- A large amount of vocabulary items is provided side by side with the words in the substitution drills to meet the communication needs of different situations. For example, most types of fruit are listed in the lesson about how to buy fruit. Thus, this textbook can also serve as a small handy dictionary in which word are categorized by subject.
- There are illustrations in each lesson closely related to the topics under discussion to facilitate both teaching and learning.
- In sum included in this book are 40 topics, covering virtually almost all aspects of daily communication, together with more than 1,000 commonly used words, and 80 essential aspects of Chinese grammar.
