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Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials An Introduction to Reading and Writing for Beginners (MP3 Audio CD and Printable Flash Cards Included)

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ISBN-10: 0804840172

ISBN-13: 9780804840170

Edition: 2011

Authors: Cornelius C. Kubler, Jerling Guo Kubler

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Anyone learning to read and write Chinese knows that it takes lots of practice! This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese. It can be used together with any Chinese textbook or teaching program to hone your Chinese reading and writing language skills. Hundreds of exercises in this book help teach beginning learners the basic components of the characters, including radicals and phonetic elements. Special exercises help you distinguish confusing "look-alikes" and teach you how to transcribe Pinyin romanized forms into characters and vice versa, how to add tone marks to the characters, how…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 3/10/2012
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 224
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Cornelius C. Kubler is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College, where he teaches Chinese. He was formerly Chinese Language Training Supervisor and Chair of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, where he trained American diplomats in Chinese and other languages.Jerling Guo Kubler is a graduate of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Soochow University, Taipei. Her experience in language education spans more than 35 years. She has taught all levels of Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language from pre-kindergarten to university level at institutions including Williams College, Eisenhower College…    

The CD contains:
A set of printable flash cards for all characters and words covered in this book.
Audio recordings with dictation practice and related activities recorded by native Chinese speakers.
Hundreds of additional pages of exercises and activities in the form of printable PDF files.