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You Know What to Say-But Your Chinese Won't Come Out: 120 Retrieval and Fluency Drills for Faster, More Automatic Mandarin

You Know What to Say-But Your Chinese Won't Come Out: 120 Retrieval and Fluency Drills for Faster, More Automatic Mandarin

Huang, Neo

Paperback

Series: Chinese Intuition

General EducationTest Prep

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ISBN13: 9798170480777
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You understand the question. You know enough Mandarin to answer. Then the turn arrives-and the useful sentence will not come out.

That gap is often not a vocabulary problem. It is a retrieval problem: too many hidden choices competing before a small, accurate response can begin.

You Know What to Say-But Your Chinese Won't Come Out gives intermediate learners a practical system for making useful Mandarin available in time. Across 20 focused chapters, you will learn to reduce the search space, retrieve chunks instead of isolated words, assemble a message in Chinese order, recover when a word disappears, and keep speaking under changed cues.

Inside you will find:

  • 120 retrieval and fluency drills built around real communicative jobs
  • natural Chinese models with tone-marked pinyin and clear English
  • timed response windows that protect accuracy instead of rewarding rushed speech
  • variation, repair, delayed-retest, and transfer routines
  • a diagnostic, quick reference, 30-day plan, and 12 integrated prompt sets
  • 140 companion audio tracks with one clear learner-facing file per activity
This is not a phrasebook and not a promise of instant fluency. It is deliberate practice for learners who can understand and construct Chinese but want the next useful sentence to arrive faster, more accurately, and with less dependence on English.

Use this sixth Chinese Intuition guide on its own or alongside the earlier books on structure, hidden meaning, natural expression, interaction, and listening.

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