Chinese

This book is a comparison between the Chinese vocabulary of the China Series and that of the Foreign Series.

This Handbook serves as an introduction to the most important written expressions and classical idiomatic phrases in modern Chinese for students of intermediate and advanced Chinese. It has the following features: ‧It is comprehensive. The twelve chapters in the first section deal with common knowledge of written expressions such as grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Various patterns, phrases, words and their usage are also explained in detail. The second section contains six chapters in which the distinctive features of various sub-types of written expressions, such as news reports, academic treatises, literary description, advertisements, correspondence and other "applied" writings, are introduced. ‧It is concise and practical. ‧It is amply illustrated with sample writings to enhance students' comprehension. ‧An exercise section is included so that students can apply what they have learned. ‧As students using this Handbook have not fully mastered the Chinese language, it is bilingual.

Designed to help students of the Chinese language master the meaning and usage of the most commonly used Chinese characters and phrases. It contains around 1,000 entries of the most commonly used characters with respective stroke order in simplified Chinese. When applicable, this is also supplied for traditional Chinese characters. Including 10,000 entries of words and phrases under their respective word entries, including synonyms, antonyms and idioms. With pinyinof the characters and phrases, straightforward English meanings, and sample sentences to illustrate the usage of the characters.

Part of the A Demonstration of Chinese Classroom Instruction series, this DVD highlights the best of teaching experience in Elementary Spoken Chinese by an award-winning teacher. The DVD shows how, after finishing the spoken Chinese lesson, the students should talk in complete and consecutive Chinese and make conversations on daily life topics such as introducing people, shopping and asking questions. The DVD demonstrates how the students should be able to express their ideas and describe things and discuss the language learning materials in simple sentences. It is important that the students pronunciation should be accurate although they may have some accent. They should also generally master the tones and intonation. -- Series Introduction -- A Demonstration of Chinese Classroom Instruction series highlights the best of teaching experience of many award-winning teachers who teach Chinese as a second language. This DVD set records the real classroom teaching situations from different angles with multiple cameras. It shows the interaction between the teacher and the students in the classroom and reviews each class in a separate booklet (included with purchase of DVD). The DVDs in the set are instrumental to both the teachers and students of Chinese.