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Outlines basic Chinese grammar, and offers useful words and expressions and simplified dialogue. Includes an audio CD that features actual Chinese conversations by native Chinese speakers, which allows you to hear how Chinese is really spoken. Written by a leading Chinese language teacher in the United States. --Publisher's description.
Outlines basic Chinese grammar, and offers useful words and expressions and simplified dialogue.
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Includes "standard hanyu pinyin romanizations, compounds and phrases for vocabulary building, step-by-step stroke order guides, special practice boxes with grid lines, and lots of extra practice sheets." Also features "foundation characters for the HSK A level language proficiency test, over 500 words and phrases containing the basic characters, and English definitions." -- Cover.
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A simple introduction to Chinese writing, pronunciation and intonation using short stories. Appropriate for all ages. Reading basic Chinese becomes simplified in this highly attractive and unusual manual designed for readers of all ages. Chinese writing, pronunciation, and vocabulary are described here in an entertaining and interesting manner to help beginners learn quickly. The author starts with simple characters and then combines these to make...
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"This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Mandarin Chinese in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Mandarin or traveling to China or Taiwan, it also contains a beginner guide to the Mandarin language, allowing for a deeper understanding of Chinese than a typical Mandarin phrasebook or Chinese dictionary. The book is broken into four basic sections: Common Chinese Expressions and...
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"After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire, with literacy reserved for the elite few. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long fight to make the Chinese language-with its many dialects...
19) KidSpeak Chinese
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KidSpeak Chinese is a multimedia learning tool with video-game-like animation. It helps children identify letters and sound combinations, numbers and number sequences, and everyday vocabulary, using three levels of difficulty.