A Note to the Learner

When it comes to learning Chinese, practice is essential, of course. This workbook offers you many options for practicing and polishing your written Chinese, and was designed to be used in conjunction with the textbook Basic Mandarin Chinese Reading & Writing as well as its companion volumes Basic Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening and Basic Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice Book. However, this workbook may be used to hone reading and writing skills no matter which textbook or course you’re using to learn Chinese.

These are some of the special features of Basic Mandarin Chinese Reading & Writing Practice Book:

• This workbook has been designed so it can be used either in a class with an instructor or by independent learners working on their own.

• Both simplified and traditional characters are taught and practiced in the same volume. This means students can learn either or both kinds of characters without having to purchase another book; and instructors have the flexibility to teach a combined class where some students read and write one type of characters and other students the other type.

• This workbook provides character practice sheets for the 288 characters introduced in Basic Mandarin Chinese Reading & Writing, with complete information on stroke order and direction for both the simplified and traditional forms of the characters.

• A wide variety of reading and writing exercises is included, such as dictation, fill-in-the-blank, dialog completion, answering questions, map reading, converting written style to spoken style, identifying radicals and phonetics, and punctuating sentences.

• Exercises are included that involve written tasks based on realia such as schedules, tables, calendars, photographs, and name cards.

• English-Chinese translation exercises are provided for each unit.

• There are printable flash cards for all the new characters and words, with Chinese characters on one side and Pinyin and English on the other.

• Electronic flash cards are also available at a special website.

• An included disc offers native-speaker audio for dictation practice.

• The Basic Mandarin Chinese Instructor’s Guide (available free from the publisher) contains detailed suggestions for using these materials as well as a wealth of exercises for use by instructors in class or by tutors during practice sessions.

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