Download or read book Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners written by Yan Liu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners’ future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage. The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese American students. Taking a macro approach that builds learners’ literacy skills on their initial abilities in speaking and listening, each lesson starts with listening and speaking activities and then moves to reading and writing. The content complexity and language difficulty are balanced to present rich content that matches students’ critical thinking abilities in a language appropriate for their literacy level. Lively and humorous language makes the book a joy to read. Each lesson has a conversation and an essay to expose students to informal and formal registers. Moreover, authentic tasks are designed to facilitate students’ language output, following the three modes of communication promoted by the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. This theme-based Chinese textbook is written for high school and college-level Chinese heritage language learners.
Download or read book Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners' future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage. The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese American students. Taking a macro approach that builds learners' literacy skills on their initial abilities in speaking and listening, each lesson starts with listening and speaking activities and then moves to reading and writing. The content complexity and language difficulty are balanced to present rich content that matches students' critical thinking abilities in a language appropriate for their literacy level. Lively and humorous language makes the book a joy to read. Each lesson has a conversation and an essay to expose students to informal and formal registers. Moreover, authentic tasks are designed to facilitate students' language output, following the three modes of communication promoted by the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. This theme-based Chinese textbook is written for high school and college-level Chinese heritage language learners.
Download or read book Oh China written by Chih-p'ing Chou and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, China! meets the needs of advanced beginners or "heritage learners" who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and writing fundamentals before moving to the intermediate level. In this fully revised edition, state-of-the-art lessons go over the basics of standard Mandarin pronunciation and introduce students to Chinese characters. The textbook moves at a faster pace than those designed for absolute beginners and allows students to rapidly develop strong foundations in grammar and vocabulary. It contains topics that are especially relevant to heritage learners, such as growing up in a bilingual, bicultural environment, and exposes students to essential issues for understanding contemporary China today, including economic development and political relations with Taiwan. This essential of Chinese language learning contains updated lessons, grammar notes, and exercises, and its new user-friendly format juxtaposes text and vocabulary on adjacent pages. Updated and revised edition Designed for advanced beginners who already speak some Chinese Offers strong foundations in pronunciation, characters, and grammar Covers topics relevant to heritage speakers and contemporary Chinese society Single volume user-friendly format
Download or read book Contemporary Chinese for Heritage Learners written by Dongmei Zeng and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique, comprehensive textbook especially designed for beginners of Chinese as a heritage language at the college level. It covers basic grammar, vocabulary, orthography, and pragmatic, social as well as cultural aspects of the Chinese language. Unlike most Chinese language textbooks for beginners, this communication-based course book is set in the cultural context of the United States rather than in China. The book takes students on a journey of self-discovery along with two fictional characters with whom they can closely identify. The language is kept simple and authentic with common vocabulary and useful expressions reoccurring throughout the book. Best used with a learner-centered and interactive approach, this book is an ideal classroom textbook as well as an enjoyable and stimulating self-study workbook that can be used in one semester or one year. To make the material accessible to students, this book is organized into seven thematic units with two related chapters each, carefully sequenced in terms of relevance and degree of difficulty. Each chapter contains a dialogue between the two fictional characters and a narrative by one of these characters on the same topic. The same format is kept throughout the book. The core vocabulary and common sentence patterns are recycled throughout the book to maximize retention. The number of new vocabulary words is controlled at an average of 42 per chapter (28 for dialogues and 14 for narratives), so as not to overwhelm the learner. This book introduces approximately 600 most frequently used Chinese characters and vocabulary words. To fully engage students in the learning process, this book also offers a variety of fun, interactive learning tasks related to the topic of each chapter. These activities include drawing, singing, games, role-plays/skits, mini-speeches, conversations, group debates and discussions, etc. that can be carried out individually, in pairs, in groups, or as a class respectively. These communicative activities take language learning away from rote memorization to active creation and application in real-life situations. In addition to text, vocabulary and activities, this all-in-one textbook and workbook features Chinese character explanations, grammar notes, cultural information pronunciation drills, sentence pattern drills, and exercises. These features allow students to practice what they have learned in class as well as to study the target language on their own. By the end of this book, students will be able to conduct everyday conversations about some common topics in Mandarin Chinese, read and write short paragraphs about these topics, and gain a better appreciation of Chinese culture and the history of Chinese people in America. It is hoped that by studying this book, students will take pride in their Chinese-American heritage and identity, laying a solid foundation for further study in the Chinese language. This book has been adopted by the State University of New York at Stony Brook for many years and has been proven to be highly interesting, easy to use, and effective.
Download or read book Contemporary Chinese for Heritage Learners written by Dongmei Zeng and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique, comprehensive textbook especially designed for beginners of Chinese as a heritage language at the college level. It covers basic grammar, vocabulary, orthography, and pragmatic, social as well as cultural aspects of the Chinese language. Unlike most Chinese language textbooks for beginners, this communication-based course book is set in the cultural context of the United States rather than in China. The book takes students on a journey of self-discovery along with two fictional characters with whom they can closely identify. The language is kept simple and authentic with common vocabulary and useful expressions reoccurring throughout the book. Best used with a learner-centered and interactive approach, this book is an ideal classroom textbook as well as an enjoyable and stimulating self-study workbook that can be used in one semester or one year. To make the material accessible to students, this book is organized into seven thematic units with two related chapters each, carefully sequenced in terms of relevance and degree of difficulty. Each chapter contains a dialogue between the two fictional characters and a narrative by one of these characters on the same topic. The same format is kept throughout the book. The core vocabulary and common sentence patterns are recycled throughout the book to maximize retention. The number of new vocabulary words is controlled at an average of 42 per chapter (28 for dialogues and 14 for narratives), so as not to overwhelm the learner. This book introduces approximately 600 most frequently used Chinese characters and vocabulary words. To fully engage students in the learning process, this book also offers a variety of fun, interactive learning tasks related to the topic of each chapter. These activities include drawing, singing, games, role-plays/skits, mini-speeches, conversations, group debates and discussions, etc. that can be carried out individually, in pairs, in groups, or as a class respectively. These communicative activities take language learning away from rote memorization to active creation and application in real-life situations. In addition to text, vocabulary and activities, this all-in-one textbook and workbook features Chinese character explanations, grammar notes, cultural information pronunciation drills, sentence pattern drills, and exercises. These features allow students to practice what they have learned in class as well as to study the target language on their own. By the end of this book, students will be able to conduct everyday conversations about some common topics in Mandarin Chinese, read and write short paragraphs about these topics, and gain a better appreciation of Chinese culture and the history of Chinese people in America. It is hoped that by studying this book, students will take pride in their Chinese-American heritage and identity, laying a solid foundation for further study in the Chinese language. This book has been adopted by the State University of New York at Stony Brook for many years and has been proven to be highly interesting, easy to use, and effective.
Download or read book Modern Chinese written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Modern Chinese written by A. G. de Bruin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics written by Shu-Ling Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics is a textbook to teach those who wish to achieve an advanced or native proficiency and cultural competence in modern Chinese, as well as to experience the beauty of Classical Chinese literature. Collecting representative works containing vibrant views of Chinese culture from different dynasties, this book is focused on how the grammatical patterns, vocabulary, and idioms that are found in Classical Chinese are relevant in the modern adaptation of the language, and how the accumulated traditional values and beliefs found there still shape the thinking and lifestyle of modern society. Online resources including audio, answer keys, and instructor aids will be part of the teaching package.
Download or read book Chinese Language for Beginners written by Lee Cooper and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple introduction to Chinese writing, pronunciation and intonation using short stories. Appropriate for beginner Chinese students of all ages. Reading basic Chinese becomes simplified in this highly attractive and unique 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 Chinese quickly. The author starts with simple characters and then combines these to make sentences and stories. This step-by-step process allows the reader to develop a basic knowledge of the complex Mandarin Chinese language with maximum comprehension. A section dealing with pronunciation and intonation and a vocabulary list of the characters used in the book are included as an aid for the reader. Beautiful, imaginative Chinese characters, hand painted by a professional calligrapher and amusing illustrations by the author supplement the text and make learning to read Chinese fun along with fancy.
Download or read book Modern Chinese written by Vivienne Zhang and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Vivienne Zhang is a native Chinese speaker fluent in English who has been translating, interpreting and teaching for many years. She has tried, tested and perfected various lessons and techniques that apply well to Chinese studies. These modern techniques are now published in a series of four books. Each book teaches the reader both Pinyin and Hanzi (Chinese characters). One of the unique features in these books is the literal translation into English of common Chinese expressions and vocabulary. For example, you can often see the annotation "lit." with the grammar points in BOOK 1, showing the direct translation of the Chinese text. This technique reinforces an understanding of sentence structure and grammar which has proven to be instrumental in helping the students and readers to retain the Chinese that they have already learned. Other Chinese language books do not use this approach. In BOOK 1, Part 1 teaches the Chinese Pinyin system, the Romanization of Mandarin, often considered the foundation for learning the language. After Part 1 is completed, you can move on to Part 2 which provides an understanding of grammar points. There are useful examples to help you grasp each of the grammar points. Part 2 is arranged in such a way that any topic in this part can be studied independently. Upon completion of this book, you will attain mastery of Chinese grammar and vocabulary. NOTE: After you have learnt Pinyin (initials, finals and tones) in Part 1 of BOOK 1, you are ready to continue studying any books within the Modern Chinese series...BOOK 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Download or read book Modern Chinese BOOK 3 Learn Chinese in a Simple and Successful Way Series written by Vivienne Zhang and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Vivienne Zhang is a native Chinese speaker fluent in English who has been translating, interpreting and teaching for many years. She has tried, tested and perfected various lessons and techniques that apply well to Chinese studies. These modern techniques are now published in a series of four books. Each book teaches the reader both Pinyin and Hanzi (Chinese characters). One of the unique features in these books is the literal translation into English of common Chinese expressions and vocabulary. For example, you can often see the annotation “lit.” with the daily life topic sentences in BOOK 3, showing the direct translation of the Chinese text. This technique reinforces an understanding of sentence structure and grammar which has proven to be instrumental in helping the students and readers to retain the Chinese that they have already learned. Other Chinese language books do not use this approach. BOOK 3 provides useful, high frequency language and examples heard everyday on the streets of China. This book is designed to give the reader a solid basis for understanding Chinese in different day-to-day situations, such as eating at a restaurant, shopping, social situations, dealing with emergencies, and many more. You can study these daily life topics in any order. Like BOOK 1 and BOOK 2 in this series, one of the unique features of this book is also the literal translation into English of common Chinese expressions and vocabulary. NOTE: After you have learnt Pinyin (initials, finals and tones) in Part 1 of BOOK 1, you are ready to continue studying any books within the Modern Chinese series...BOOK 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Download or read book A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese written by Paul Rouzer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate the changes in written Chinese over the centuries.Each lesson consists of a text, a vocabulary list featuring discussions of meaning and usage, explanations of grammar, and explications of difficult passages. The standard modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean pronunciations are indicated for each character, making this a learning tool for native speakers of those languages as well.Appendices give suggestions for further readings, review common and significant words, explain the radical system, and provide Japanese kanbun readings for all the selections. Glossaries of all vocabulary items and pronunciation indexes for modern Chinese and Korean are also included."
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Download or read book The Chinese Language and how to Learn it written by Sir Walter Hillier and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Chinese beginner s course written by Shizi Li and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
