These books follow the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading & Writing textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains audio recordings as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra exercises and activities and a set of 288 printable flash cards to help you learn the basic characters.
Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading and Writing Practice Book includes a wealth of carefully-designed activities designed to improve every aspect of your reading and writing skills, including:
- Character writing practice sheets
- Dictation, fill-in-the-blank, and dialog completion exercises
- Answering questions, reading maps, converting written style to spoken style
- Identifying radicals and phonetics, punctuating sentences
- Writing tasks based on real-life schedules, photographs and name cards
- Translation exercises
The accompanying disc contains:
- Audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
- Hundreds of printable practice pages
- A printable set of 288 Chinese flashcards
Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials stands out among Chinese books and textbooks for its dynamic study system and practical exercises, which will assist you in learning Chinese quickly and comfortably.
With the internationally-recognized Kubler system and accompanying CD-ROM, you will:
- Learn to use 288 high-frequency Chinese characters, and over 700 popular words written with them
- Find yourself quickly reading and writing sentences with the correct Chinese grammar
- Be taught both simplified and traditional characters; you may choose to learn one or both
- Recognize a variety of fonts in both typeset and handwritten styles, to prepare you to use Chinese in many different contexts-from reading signs and newspapers, to computers and mobile phone texts
- Listen to hours of native-speaker recordings on the enclosed CD-ROM, and have access to practice sheets and printable flashcards
By Cornelius C. Kubler and Jerling Guo Kubler, Paperback, Simplified Chinese Characters, Pinyin and English, 224 pages/book, 10"x7.5", 1MP3 Audio and Printable PDFs included
