Practical Chinese Course 2

Author: Tan Jiahu edited
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book series has the following outstanding characteristics: The author has chosen basic life sentences as the main goal for students to learn Chinese. All sentences appearing in the textbook will be the sentences with the highest frequency of use for students. In other words, these sentences are those they cannot help but hear and speak in daily life. Understanding and being able to use these sentences in real-life situations is absolutely essential for beginners of Chinese. Sentences that students rarely use in daily life, even if they come from famous ancient Chinese poetry, fairy tales, or children's songs and jokes, are not included in this book. For Chinese expressions that differ significantly from English, as well as the usage of various measure words and function words, this book provides clear explanations in the grammar section. Rich illustrations help interpret sentence meanings. The same sentence patterns are repeated multiple times to reinforce memory. The main purpose of this book is to teach students to listen, read, and speak Chinese. As for writing, it is not the primary focus of this book. Therefore, if students find it very difficult to answer written exercises, they can also choose to answer orally. The English translations in this book were carefully reviewed and edited by Patricia Todd, a library science master and an excellent American librarian.