Short and Sweet Chinese · Basic Spoken Chinese (1)

Author: Zhang Xinming
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is a spoken conversation textbook for beginners in Chinese. The target audience is foreign students with no prior knowledge. The book consists of 16 lessons, each with two parts, suitable for short-term courses (20 hours per week) within a four-week period. The main features of this textbook are:
1. Practicality: It focuses on teaching communicative scenarios commonly used and urgently needed in daily life, emphasizing the training of students' listening and speaking skills.
2. Conciseness: It selects simple and as unified as possible basic sentence patterns and expressions.
3. Completeness: It highlights the completeness of syntax to cultivate students' ability to use full sentences for correct expression.
4. Control: It imposes controlled limits on vocabulary, grammar, length, and sentence length, distributing them evenly across each lesson to align with the cognitive abilities and actual comprehensibility of zero-level students.
5. Repetition: It emphasizes increasing the repetition rate of input language information.
6. Progression: It arranges grammatical items in an order from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, ensuring that related sequences are as dependent on each other as possible.