Third in the Gaoji Hanyu Kouyu series from Beijing University, this volume includes new texts for this second edition. It uses a typical Chinese family throughout to illustrate various aspects of Chinese life and society. Each character is endowed with differing characteristics to enable learners to widen their understanding of China and also learn idiomatic Chinese. A number of exercises in the form of descriptions, reports, lectures and debates help to enhance the learner's ability to use free-flowing speech.
The new words of this textbook are mainly the fourth degree words selected from the Syllabus of Chinese Words and Characters; some are the fifth degree words and idioms. Based on the original textbook, the new edition revised and added some new texts, was changed into volume1,2 and improvement. The characteristics are as follows:1) Texts of volume 1 and 2 are centered on a typical Chinese family, for displaying many aspects of Chinese family and society. 2) The figures are given a certain personality and language style. 3) Diversified exercises are added; there are exercises of text and new words and drills of complex sentence patterns and expression in paragraphs. 4) Systematic explanation of colloquial Chinese.
The Elementary Spoken Chinese and Intermediate version are also available.
By Renzhi Zu and Xuemei Ren, Paperback, Simplified Chinese Characters, Pinyin and Vocabulary, 214 pages, 7.25"x10.25", 1 MP3 Audio CD
