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A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese

A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese

Liu, Irene
Liu, Lening
Li, Duanduan

Paperback

Series: Asian Studies

ChineseGeneral ReferenceTest Prep

ISBN10: 0231125550
ISBN13: 9780231125550
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 6 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.45 Depth: 10.95
Language: English

This first-of-its-kind, two-volume primer is addressed to meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of Chinese language students who were raised in the United States in Chinese-speaking homes and can speak the language but who cannot read or write it. The book's lessons and exercises build upon the cultural knowledge of these advanced beginners in order to facilitate full language acquisition.

As a culture-based primer, this text takes an unusual and innovative approach, with lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythology, customs, and cuisine. The focus, therefore, is not on sentence grammar, but rather on reading strategies and on discourse grammar, a new, more authentic approach to the study of languages.

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