Elementary Mandarin Chinese Workbook: Learn to Speak, Read and Write Chinese the Easy Way! (Companion Audio)

nThis workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes extensive interactive drills, exercises and other practice materials. Online audio files are available for use in the relevant exercises. The lessons in this workbook correspond to the 24 lessons in the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook. The materials in this workbook are meant to be completed by students outside of class to strengthen and consolidate their understanding of the materials in the textbook. Lessons 1 and 2 of the Workbook contain exercises to learn to read and pronounce the Pinyin alphabet along with simple classroom expressions. They also introduce 48 basic Chinese characters. Beginning with Lesson 3, each lesson of the workbook contains two parts. Each part has two sets of listening comprehension exercises, one translation exercise, one character practice sheet, and one reading and writing exercise. Lessons 13 and 24 of the textbook are review lessons and therefore have no corresponding workbook materials. nThe most up-to-date and complete single-volume textbook and workbook for Mandarin learnersIntended for beginning students with no prior knowledge of the languageIncorporates conversations, grammar notes, exercises and readings--in Chinese characters as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciationNative speaker audio and video recordings are provided for listening and speaking practice in different accentsAuthor's perspective of advantages of this textbook over competitive textbooks for Chinese: Elementary Mandarin Chinese is designed for beginning learners in programs that move at a more relaxed, more comfortable pace--not intensive or semi-intensive programs where students have class each day and must do several hours of homework.

Each lesson is short and focuses on the highest frequency, most important language content and grammatical explanations, omitting less common words and nonessential grammatical details. This makes Chinese language learning more manageable.

The language presented is up-to-date, natural, and authentic.

There is an emphasis on practical and immediately useful language.

The textbook is convenient to use, with all 4 skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) presented together in one volume. It's also more convenient for instructors to use, since almo