Read Online Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books

Read Online Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books



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Download PDF Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books

This workbook provides graduated individual practice for the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes many spoken and written exercises that simulate daily life with topics and themes that are relevant and personal to each student. Revised and new exercises reflect the language used in real life and build skills students need to communicate in today's rapidly changing world. Recordings for listening exercises are available on the audio CDs (sold separately).

Read Online Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books


"This textbook is an excellent resource that makes learning Chinese so much easier! The pace is just right: not too slow or too fast, and vocabulary and grammar points are delivered in very digestible chunks. The dialogues are level-appropriate, and both pinyin and English translations of the characters are provided separately, so you can refer to them if you need to but they do not distract you if you want to challenge yourself to read just the characters. Grammar points are explained very clearly. This book would easily suit both people studying on their own and people learning in a classroom environment. Everything is clear enough that no further explanation is needed, just some exposure to Chinese pronunciation - which is abundant on the web for free. The Simplified and Traditional Character Workbook is an excellent companion book for practicing writing the characters you learn in the textbook. There is also a Simplified Character Workbook that is not character writing practice but different kinds of exercises for pinyin and characters. The latter I think would be less useful for the independent learner, but it's still a good resource. These books take all of the "intimidation" factor OUT of learning Chinese!"

Product details

  • Paperback 184 pages
  • Publisher Cheng & Tsui; 3rd edition (August 8, 2008)
  • Language English, Chinese
  • ISBN-10 0887276407

Read Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books

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Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books Reviews :


Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Workbook Simplified Characters English and Chinese Edition Yuehua Liu TaoChung Yao NyanPing Bi Liangyan Ge Yaohua Shi Books Reviews


  • Background
    I recently decided to learn Mandarin but I work full-time and my schedule isn't flexible enough where I would be able to take night courses, so I set out to teach myself (with the help of my girlfriend, a native speaker). I looked up several books on and cross referenced them to local universities to see which were "tried and true" for college level learning. The Integrated Chinese series appeared to be widely used so I purchased the level 1 part 1 textbook and workbook.

    Book Structure
    There are 10 chapters and each chapter is broken down into two sub-chapters that are identical in structure. Each sub-chapter begins with a dialogue that introduces that new words and grammar rules. Next you are presented with a vocabulary list of new words which generally will consist of 10-20 new words. After the vocab list comes the new grammar rules followed by practice exercises. Each chapter has a theme such as hobbies, traveling, family, etc.

    Opinion
    The textbook is easy to follow and the grammar rules are explained in plain English. Level 1 Part 1 is what I would expect from 1 semester of college level language studies. If you're teaching yourself, you'll need someone to help you with your pronunciation. They offer language CDs separately so you can listen to the dialogues, but I didn't bother purchasing them so I'm unable to comment on them. I did purchase the workbook but haven't used it at all because the practice sections in the textbook have been sufficient. Overall I would recommend this book to someone who is motivated to learn Mandarin and at a pace comparable to a college level course.
  • This textbook is an excellent resource that makes learning Chinese so much easier! The pace is just right not too slow or too fast, and vocabulary and grammar points are delivered in very digestible chunks. The dialogues are level-appropriate, and both pinyin and English translations of the characters are provided separately, so you can refer to them if you need to but they do not distract you if you want to challenge yourself to read just the characters. Grammar points are explained very clearly. This book would easily suit both people studying on their own and people learning in a classroom environment. Everything is clear enough that no further explanation is needed, just some exposure to Chinese pronunciation - which is abundant on the web for free. The Simplified and Traditional Character Workbook is an excellent companion book for practicing writing the characters you learn in the textbook. There is also a Simplified Character Workbook that is not character writing practice but different kinds of exercises for pinyin and characters. The latter I think would be less useful for the independent learner, but it's still a good resource. These books take all of the "intimidation" factor OUT of learning Chinese!
  • Generally these books are required for classes. Yes, it has lots of vocabulary and the grammar is helpful. However, if you're a teacher reading this review, please consider using another book to teach by. Integrated Chinese began to get sloppy with the illustrations in the book and the content jumps around. At the level most students are when learning material of this type, I would think that the dialogue between the characters would have a little more substance and not seem so random. In fact, some of the translations of the words in English many students are unfamiliar with because they are outdated.
  • Absolutely fantastic series of books! The first two years of my Chinese classes in college used the Integrated Chinese series as the main curriculum material. The entire series incorporates vocabulary and grammar points that are relevant to the beginner/intermediate student. Rather than simply listing out dozens of vocab words, each chapter is prefaced with a dialogue or short commentary that uses the following vocab words. Teaching relevant words is one thing, but giving them in a relevant context was incredibly helpful. In addition, the dialogues and commentaries were not random stories - the Integrated Chinese series follows the lives of a handful of characters as they walk through life together, recording their conversations and experiences. It very much resembles Friends the way that the characters interact with one another, fall in love, go to school, express struggles, etc. For our class, we wanted to plow through each chapter for the sake of getting to the next drama-filled episode of Li You and Wang Peng's love story.

    The accompanying videos were the icing on the cake, as (very clearly) white actors were used with terrible dubs to tell the thrilling storyline of how Gao Wenzhong tries to intervene in the aforementioned love story. People have Bachelor parties and Gossip Girl get-togethers, but each day of class for us became an Integrated Chinese viewing party.

    All joking aside, the approach this series takes to teaching language (much less a language which is often deemed "too difficult" for native English speakers) is simple and natural and caters well to the cultural environments that college age students encounter. Each chapter concludes with a handful of vocab/grammar practices, and the workbooks (purchased separately) really helped to drive these points home for me. They also introduced new points that could be extrapolated from the main text. We tore the workbook sheets out each week when we turned them in as homework. Using these books four semesters in a row prepared me well for third year Chinese and I still have/read through all of these books. Thank you Integrated Chinese!

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