TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kubler,Cornelius C.
AU  - Wang,Yang
TI  - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking and Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)
SN  - 9781462915453
AV  - PL1129.E5 .K835 2013 
U1  - 495.182421 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - North Clarendon
PB  - Tuttle Publishing
KW  - Chinese language-Textbooks for foreign speakers-English
KW  - Chinese language-Self-instruction
KW  - Chinese language-Spoken Chinese
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Frontcover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- A Note to the Learner -- Contents -- How to Download the Bonus Material of this Book -- How to Use These Materials -- Abbreviations -- 1. New Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries -- 2. Substitution Drills -- 3. Transformation and Response Drills -- 4. Role Play Exercises -- 5. Listening Comprehension Exercises -- 6. Translation Exercises, Units 11-24: For Each Part (Lesson) -- 7. Translation Exercises, Units 11-24: For Each Complete Unit -- Unit 12: Translation Exercise -- Unit 13: Translation Exercise -- Unit 14: Translation Exercise -- Unit 15: Translation Exercise -- Unit 16: Translation Exercise -- Unit 17: Translation Exercise -- Unit 18: Translation Exercise -- Unit 19: Translation Exercise -- Unit 20: Translation Exercise -- Unit 21: Translation Exercise -- Unit 22: Translation Exercise -- Unit 23: Translation Exercise -- Unit 24: Translation Exercise
N2  - Learning to speak Chinese requires many hours of practice--there's just no way around it! But by using this one-of-a-kind practice guide, together with whatever Chinese language-learning book or program you're using, you can dramatically improve your ability to speak and comprehend Mandarin Chinese. This book presents a wealth of tested and proven practice activities--including downloadable audio and over 200 pages of drills and exercises--to help you polish your spoken Chinese to a solid intermediate level. It can be used successfully with any intermediate-level Chinese language learning book, such as Intermediate Spoken Chinese, and enables you to easily move from beginning to intermediate level proficiency in the language. Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes hundreds of activities that have been carefully designed to perfect and reinforce each aspect of your Chinese speaking and comprehension ability: Pronunciation exercises. Vocabulary and grammar summaries. Substitution drills. Transformation and response drills. Role play and listening comprehension exercises. Dictation exercises. Translation exercises. Together with or after this book, you can use Intermediate Written Chinese and Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials if you want to learn Chinese reading and writing. It introduces the highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way. About the Series Respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler, who has taught diplomats, business people and students, presents a learning system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help you efficiently master the basics of spoken and written Chinese. The materials in the Basic Chinese series allow you to move from complete beginner level to intermediate fluency
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