The go-to guide to Chinese—now with streaming audio of spoken Chinese that dramatically improves your pronunciation skills From reading and recognizing Chinese script to mastering vocabulary, basic grammar, and sentence structure, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese provides everything you need to build a solid foundation in this language. Ideal for self-studiers, it provides simplified versions of Chinese characters with the pinyin transliteration, making it easy to read, and all grammar examples have English translations. Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese features: •Bite-sized formats for grammar, vocabulary, script, and communication structuresmake learning a snap •150 practice exercises and review units that build comprehension•English-Chinese and Chinese [Pinyin]-English glossaries•High-frequency vocabulary lists on various topics•New to this edition: hours of streaming audio recordings for increased comprehension and accent improvement
By:
Xiaozhou Wu,
Feng-hsi Liu,
Rongrong Liao
Imprint: McGraw Hill
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 274mm,
Width: 216mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 644g
ISBN: 9781260452433
ISBN 10: 1260452433
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 May 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Part I1 Pronouns · Simple sentence structure · Nations and nationalities 2 The verb yǒu (I) to have · Family 3 Questions with ma · Fruits 4 Adverbs yě and dōu· Food 5 Sentences with a verbal predicate · Time words and daily activities Review 1 Lessons 1–5 Part II 6 Questions with an interrogative pronoun · Beverages 7 Numbers 1–100 · Arithmetic expressions 8 Sentences with a nominal predicate · Expressing age · Telling time 9 Years, months, dates, days of the week · Expressing dates 10 Numeral measure words · Demonstratives with a numeral measure word · Clothing · Verbs for put on/wear Review 2 Lessons 6–10 Part III 11 Sentences with an adjectival predicate · Elliptical questions with ne · Greetings and descriptions 12 Affirmative-negative questions · Moods and tastes 13 Alternative questions · Occupations 14 Attributives · Demonstratives and noun phrases · The school 15 The de phrase · Questions with ba · Colors and more clothing Review 3 Lessons 11–15 Part IV 16 The verb yǒu (II) indicating existence · More measure words · The classroom 17 Location words · Verbs yǒu, shì, zài indicating existence 18 Verb reduplication · Tag questions with hǎo ma· Activities and chores 19 The complement of state · Classroom activities 20 Sentences with subject-predicate as predicate · Adjective reduplication · Parts of the body Review 4 Lessons 16–20 Part V 21 Pivotal sentences · Sentences with double objects · Entertainment 22 Prepositional phrases with zài, cóng, dào · Public places 23 Adverbials · Sentences with serial verb phrases · Daily Routines 24 Auxiliary verbs (I) xiǎng, yào, huì, néng, kěyǐ · Sports and games 25 Events that are going to take place · Future plans Review 5 Lessons 21–25 Part VI 26 The sentence-final particle le· Shopping 27 The perfective particle le · Expressing completed actions 28 The sentence-final particle · Auxiliary verbs (II) huì, kěnéng, bìxū, yīnggāi, yào, děi · Weather conditions 29 Comparative constructions · Quantity complement · Making comparisons 30 The progressive aspect of an action · Expressing actions in progress Review 6 Lessons 26–30 English-Chinese glossary Chinese (Pinyin)–English glossary Answer key Translations of Nǐ zhīdao ma? Do you know? McGraw-Hill Language Lab app: Flashcards: 30 sets Audio: Answers to 54 exercises
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