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

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

<B>Use this one-of-a-kind practice guide and Chinese workbook together with any Chinese book or language program, and dramatically enhance your speaking.</B><BR><BR>No matter what book or course you're using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective practice activities to help polish your written Chinese. This book corresponds to <I>Basic Written Chinese</I> and allows you to move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency. An included disc contains extensive audio material, as well as (printable) flash cards. <BR><BR><I>Practice Essentials</I> includes carefully designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken Chinese skills, including: <ul><li> Chinese character practice sheets.</li><li> Dictation, fill–in–the–blank, dialog completion.</li><li> Answering questions, map reading, converting written style to spoken style.</li><li> Identify radicals and phonetics; punctuating sentences.</li><li> Written tasks based on realia like schedule, photographs, and name cards.</li><li> Translation exercises.</li></ul>The corresponding MP3 audio CD includes:<ul><li> 64 minutes of native–speaker audio.</li><li> 288 printable flash cards.</li></ul>Together with this book, you can use the <I>Basic Spoken Chinese</I> series if you want to learn fluent spoken Mandarin. <BR><BR><B>About the Series:</B> Respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler, who has taught diplomats, business people and students, presents a learning system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese. The materials in <I>Basic Spoken Chinese</I> allow you to move from complete beginner level to basic fluency.