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Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book: A Workbook for Beginning Learners of Spoken Chinese (Audio and Practice PDF downloads Included)
By Cornelius C. Kubler and Yang Wang
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This comprehensive Mandarin workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to dramatically enhance your Mandarin speaking and listening skills.
No matter what textbook you're using to learn Mandarin, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills—plus over 16 hours of audio recordings—to help you improve your spoken Mandarin Chinese quickly and effectively.
This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking & Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities.
Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking & Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including:
Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades—using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning.
No matter what textbook you're using to learn Mandarin, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills—plus over 16 hours of audio recordings—to help you improve your spoken Mandarin Chinese quickly and effectively.
This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking & Listening textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities.
Basic Mandarin Chinese—Speaking & Listening Practice Book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your speaking skills, including:
- Pronunciation exercises
- Vocabulary and Grammar summaries
- Substitution drills
- Transformation and Response drills
- Role Playing and Listening Comprehension
- Dictation exercises
- Translation exercises
- 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin speakers
- Printable practice pages
- Printable exercises and activities
Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades—using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTuttle Publishing
Release dateNov 7, 2017
ISBN9781462919321
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Basic Mandarin Chinese - Speaking & Listening Practice Book - Cornelius C. Kubler
1. New Vocabulary
and Grammar Summaries
Unit 1, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
A as final particle to soften questions, greetings, and exclamations: Nĭ dào năr qù a? And where might you be going?
DÀO...QÙ go to…
: Wáng Jīngshēng dào năr qù? Where is Jingsheng Wang going?
Name + Greeting: Wáng Jīngshēng, nĭ hăo! Jingsheng Wang, how are you?
Names: Wáng Jīngshēng Jingsheng Wang
NE as final particle to abbreviate questions: Wŏ qù shítáng. Nĭ ne? I’m going to the dining hall. And what about you?
QÙ + Place word to indicate go to a certain place
: Wŏ qù túshūguăn. I’m going to the library.
QÙ + Verb to indicate purpose: Wŏ qù túshūguăn bàn yìdiănr shì. I’m going to the library to take care of something.
Question Word Questions: Nĭ dào năr qù? Where are you going?
Unit 1, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
MA to transform statements into questions: Tāmen yĕ qù shítáng ma? Are they going to the dining hall, too?
Stative Verb Sentences: Wŏ hĕn lèi. I’m tired.
Unmarked coordination: nĭ àiren, háizi your spouse and children
Unit 1, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
Affirmative-Negative Questions: Zhōngwén nán bu nán? Is Chinese hard?
BÙ to negate verbs: bù máng not be busy,
bù huí sùshè not go back to the dormitory
LĂO and XIĂO before monosyllabic surnames: Lăo Gāo Old Gao,
Xiăo Wáng Little Wang
Stative Verbs before nouns as adjectives: lăo yàngzi old way,
hăo háizi good child,
xiăo shìr small matter
TῘNG...-DE: tĭng jĭnzhāngde quite intense,
tĭng róngyide quite easy
Tone change of BÙ to BÚ before Tone Four syllables: bù + qù → bú qù
Topic-comment construction: Nĭ gōngzuò máng bu máng? Is your work busy or not busy?
Vocative Expressions: Xiăo Liú! Little Liu!,
Bàba! Dad!
Unit 1, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
Imperatives: Qĭng nín dào túshūguăn qù. Please go to the library.
LE to indicate a changed situation: Nĭ māma hăole ma? Has your mom gotten well?,
Wŏ bú qùle. I’m no longer going.
Pronouns: wŏ, nĭ, nín, tā, wŏmen, nĭmen, tāmen
Titles: Wáng Xiānsheng Mr. Wang,
Lĭ Tàitai Mrs. Li,
Wáng Xiáojie Miss/Ms. Wang,
Lín Lăoshī Teacher Lin
Unit 2, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
JIÀO in equative verb sentences: Wŏ jiào Bái Jiéruì. My name is Bai Jierui.
Nĭ jiào shémme míngzi? What’s your name?
Nationalities: Mĕiguo rén American,
Zhōngguo rén Chinese,
etc.
SHÌ in equative verb sentences: Wŏ shi Mĕiguo rén. I am (an) American.
ZHÈI- and NÈI- as specifiers with the polite measure WÈI: zhèiwèi lăoshī this teacher,
nèiwèi tóngxué that classmate
Unit 2, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
BIÉ or BÚYÀO to indicate negative imperative: Qĭng nĭ bié qù! Please don’t go!
Búyào jiào wŏ Lăo Wáng! Don’t call me old Wang!
DÀO...LÁI: Qĭng nĭ dào túshūguăn lái. Please come to the library.
-DE to indicate possession: wŏde gōngzuò my work,
nĭde xīn tóngxué your new classmate
...HĂOLE: Nĭ hái shi jiào wŏ Xiăo Chén hăole. It would be better if you called me Little Chen.
YÍXIÀ(R) after verbs to make them less abrupt: jièshao yixiar introduce,
lái yixia come,
wèn yixia ask
ZHÈ this
and NÀ that
as pronoun subjects: Zhè shi Wáng Àihuá, zhè shi Chén Lì This is Wang Aihua, this is Chen Li,
Nà shi shéi? Who is that?
Unit 2, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
BA to indicate supposition: Tā shi Yīngguo rén ba I suppose she’s English.
Nĭ lèile ba? You must be tired?
XÌNG in equative verb sentences: Wŏ xìng Zhāng. My last name is Zhang.
Nĭ xìng shémme? What’s your last name?
Unit 2, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
Grammar
BÙ DŌU vs. DŌU BÙ: Wŏmen bù dōu shi Mĕiguo rén. We are not all Americans.
Wŏmen dōu bú shi Mĕiguo rén. None of us is American.
-DE to indicate that what precedes describes what follows: Zhōng-Mĕi Màoyì Gōngsīde Shī Xiáojie Ms. Shi from Sino-American Trading Company
-LE to indicate completed action: Wŏ găocuòle. I got it wrong.
MÉI to indicate past negative of action verbs: Tāmen méi lái. They didn’t come.
MÉI DŌU vs. DŌU MÉI: Tāmen méi dōu qù. They didn’t all go.
Tāmen dōu méi qù. None of them went.
Unit 3, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary
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