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The Self-Access Centre - Mandarin - Course Books

These course books are available in the Self-Access Centre. You can improve various language skills; some books are designed so that you can improve your exam techniques. Check "Description" for more details about each book.

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This course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of the Chinese language. The book places great emphasis on the learning of Chinese characters, both their pronunciation and the meaning that arises from different combinations of the same characters, and uses this as a foundation for the learing of the language. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 1 A Key to Chinese Speech and Writing. Vol I Joël Bellasen & Zhang Pengpeng Sinolingua A1, A2, B1 2001 1
2 A Shortcut to learning Chineses: Supplementary Language Textbook Selina Y Zheng Selina Y Zheng A1, A2 2009 1
This book is designed to accompany "A Trip to China" and is divided into three sections: vocabulary, grammar notes, and exercises. Exercises are patterned in two forms. The first kind focuses on reinforcing the vocabulary and grammatical points of the lesson. Among exercises of this type are true/false, word usage, and translations. The second type of exercise considers typical implications of the materials and includes discussion topics, skits, activities and debates. After every few lessons, review exercises are included to remind students to practive the materials introduced earlier 3 A Trip to China - Vocabulary, Grammar Notes and Exercises Der-Lin Chao Princeton University Press B1, B2 1999 1
This book is aimed at students with an intermediate level of Chinese, and contains several texts discussing the Chinese people and current issues in China from the point of view of an American student. Without propagating any ideology or political philosophy, the book reflects the wide diversity of Chinese society through simple, everyday experiences, revealing China's beauty and ugliness through analysis, explanation and debate. The text in this volume is written in simplified and traditional characters in juxtaposition, with a vocabulary index in Pinyin and English at the back of the book 4 A Trip to China: Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese Text Chih-P'ing Chou Princeton University Press B2 1999 1
This book is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language, and is aimed at providing students with a level of Chinese that would enable them to converse in everyday situations. Each lesson is comprised of the following components: basic sentence patterns, a series of conversations that illustrate the communicative use of these patterns, words and expressions, language points, exercises, and cultural insights about the topic of the lesson. By the time students finish this book, they should have learned ninety basic sentence patterns, three hundred characters, basic grammar, and basic communicative skills 5 Beginner's Chinese Yong Ho Hipprocrene Books, Inc A1, A2 2002 1
Volume 1 of the elementary level of the Boya Chinese series, which comes with 9 books distributed as follows: - Elementary (two volumes) - Pre-intermediate (two volumes) - Intermediate (two volumes) - Advanced (three volumes) These textbooks have been developed by experienced teachers of the University of Pekin, the most renowned university in China. The current volume focuses on beginner-level students, which, together with the second volume on elementary level, covers aproximately 1000 words. Once this level is finished, the student will be ready to pass the HSK level 3 exam. It´s especially recommended for intensive courses, since the student will be able to advance very quickly with it; teaching characters has a secondary role in this book. Contrary to other textbooks, the dialogues in each lesson written in Chinese characters are separated from their Pinyin (phonetic transcriptions) versions, a very positive feature which avoids getting too used to the latter. An MP3 format audio CD will read all the texts in Chinese, as well as the new words in each lesson. The book covers much ground, and includes a great deal of exercises for each lesson. All grammar explanations, introductions to new words and instructions to the exercises come in English. Furthermore, at the end of the book you can even find translations of the texts in English as well. 6 Boya Chinese 1 Xiaoqi L Peking University Press A1, A2 2010 1
Volume 2 of the elementary level of the Boya Chinese series, which comes with 9 books distributed as follows: - Elementary (two volumes) - Pre-intermediate (two volumes) - Intermediate (two volumes) - Advanced (three volumes) These textbooks have been developed by experienced teachers of the University of Pekin, the most renowned university in China. The current volume focuses on beginner-level students, which, together with the first volume on elementary level, covers approximately 1000 words. Once this level is finished, the student will be ready to pass the HSK level 3 exam. It´s especially recommended for intensive courses, since the student will be able to advance very quickly with it; teaching characters has a secondary role in this book. Contrary to other textbooks, the dialogues in each lesson written in Chinese characters are separated from their Pinyin (phonetic transcriptions) versions, a very positive feature which avoids getting too used to the latter. An MP3 format audio CD will read all the texts in Chinese, as well as the new words in each lesson. The book covers much ground, and includes a great deal of exercises for each lesson. All grammar explanations, introductions to new words and instructions to the exercises come in English. Furthermore, at the end of the book you can even find translations of the texts in English as well. 7 Boya Chinese 2 Xiaoqi L Peking University Press A2, B1 2010 1
8 Business Chinese Li Li & Angi Ding Peking University Press 2007 1
This textbook is designed for students who have studied Chinese for two to three years. With its focus on international business and foreign trade, the book offers an advanced training in vocabulary acquisition, language usage and rhetoric. Although emphasizing on practical communication, the text contains detailed analyses and ample exercises on word usage and sentence patterns. The materials and samples it uses are authentic: shipping documents, insurance forms and real business letters. It is also rich in cultural information and background business knowledge, which are important ingredients to conduct business in China 9 Business Chinese - An Advanced Reader Songren Cui The Chinese University Press 2004 1
A completely new, exciting and highly enjoyable textbook for developing Business Mandarin skills and key Chinese cultural understanding. 10 Business Chinese 20 Essential Topics Yinghong Huang 7 Carrie Wei Cypress Books A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 2009 1
11 Chengo Chinese 1 - Students' Book Liu Songhao Higher Education Press 2006 1
This book is designed for beginners and teaches basic sentence patterns and ways of expression in modern spoken Chinese. There are 35 lessons in this volume, with a section for revision between every five lessons. Preceding the lessons is an introduction to phonetics and coming after the lessons is a general word list in the Chinese alphabetical order. Each lesson is composed of the following parts: the text, the new words, the study points, the exercises and the key to the exercises. Vocabulary is accompanied by their romanised Chinese spellings, or pinyin, and English translations. The exercises in the book focus on four key areas: phonetics, and oral, writing and listening skills. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 12 Chinese for Today The Beijing Languages Institute The Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Ltd A1, A2 1997 1
This book is aimed at beginners and should take students to a lower-intermediate level of Chinese. This book aims to develop student's communicative competence by focusing on key generic speech patterns and making listening and speaking the core activities of each lesson. The book also aims to develop learners' reading and writing skills with a systematic introduction to relevant knowledge backed up with practice exercises. Each of the ten lessons in this book focuses on four key speech patterns or constructions, while grammatical points are spread over the lessons and explained in simple English, often with examples. Apart from the first five lessons, which introduce pinyin with plenty of relevant exercises and have twenty characters in each lesson, the rest of the lessons each introduce 22 characters, which brings the total number of characters to 210. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 13 Chinese in Steps George X Zhang, linda M li & Lik Suen Cypress Book Co. UK Ltd. A1, A2 2006 1
14 Chinese Made Easy 1 - Textbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 2
15 Chinese Made Easy 1 - Workbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 2
16 Chinese Made Easy 2 - Textbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
17 Chinese Made Easy 2 - Workbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
18 Chinese Made Easy 3 - Textbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
19 Chinese Made Easy 3 - Workbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
20 Chinese Made Easy 4 - Textbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
21 Chinese Made Easy 4 - Workbook Yamin Ma & Xinging Li Joint Publishing 2006 1
22 Chinese Mandarin Course - Chinese Characters Exercises Zhang Yingxian Beijing Language and Culture University Press 1998 1
23 Chinese Mandarin Course - Chinese Characters Textbook Zhang Yingxian Beijing Language and Culture University Press 1998 1
24 Chinese Mandarin Course - Reading Textbook 1 Lang Shuangqi Beijing Language and Culture University Press 1998 1
25 Chinese Mandarin Course - Reading Textbook 2 Li Hong Beijing Language and Culture University Press 1998 1
This self-study course is designed for beginners. The book is divided into seventeen lessons, each one containing conversations based on common daily conversations, vocabularies, grammar notes and exercises to help students learn and practise basic skills. There is also a Chinese-English glossary for on-the-spot and long-term reference. Pinyin, the romanised version of Chinese, is used throughout 26 Colloquial Chinese P.C. T'ung and D.E. Pollard Routledge A1, A2 2001 1
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 27 Contemporary Chinese 1 - Character Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1 2006 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 28 Contemporary Chinese 1 - Exercise Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1 2006 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 29 Contemporary Chinese 1 - Textbook Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1 2003 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 30 Contemporary Chinese 2 - Character Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1, A2 2006 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 31 Contemporary Chinese 2 - Exercise Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1, A2 2006 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. There will be a total of 4 texts, 2 character exercise books, 4 exercises books, 4 teacher's manuals, and audio and video tapes to complement the series. 32 Contemporary Chinese 2 - Textbook Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua A1, A2 2006 2
This impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. 33 Contemporary Chinese 3 - Exercise Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua 2006 2
his impressive new text series is intended to teach English-speaking students to develop the ability to communicate in Chinese social settings, as well as read and write characters. With a innovative text layout, utilising pinyin, simplified and traditional characters, and English translation of the dialogues, many cultural notes, pictures, and more. 34 Contemporary Chinese 3 - Textbook Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua 2006 2
35 Contemporary Chinese 4 - Exercise Book Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua 2006 1
36 Contemporary Chinese 4 - Textbook Dangdai Zhongwen Sinolingua 2006 1
Suitable for young adult to adult beginner Chinese language learners, this book adopts a communicative and integrated approach to Chinese language learning. 37 Discover China Student Book One Ding Anqi, Lily Jing and Xin Chen Macmillan Education (30 Aug 2010) A1 2010 1
Specially designed for young adult and adult learners, this four-level beginner Mandarin Chinese course employs a communicative and integrated approach to Chinese language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers. 38 Discover China Student Book Two Anqi Ding and Shaoyan Qi Macmillan Education (14 Sep 2011) A2, B1 2011 1
An accompanying workbook toDiscover China, Student Book One. Suitable for young adult to adult beginner Chinese language learners, it offers Chinese language learning material. 39 Discover China Workbook One Betty Hung Macmillan Education (27 Sep 2010) A1 2010 1
"Discover China Workbook 2" is an accompanying workbook to "Discover China Student Book 2", designed for upper-elementary, teenage to adult learners of mandarin Chinese. 40 Discover China: Workbook Two Wang Dan Macmillan Education (7 Oct 2011) A2, B1 2011 1
41 Experiencing Chinese - Business Communication in China Higher Education Press Higher Education Press 2006 1
42 Experiencing Chinese: Living in China Zhu Xiaoxing Higher Education Press A1 2006 1
This booklet provides a simple, self-contained introduction to the Chinese language. Its aim is to provide a student with enough spoken Chinese to cope with everyday situations. The units are focused on a particular aspect of a visit to China, such as booking a room or using public transport, and thus places emphasis on oral and aural comprehension rather than reading and writing skills 43 Get by in Chinese Katherine Flower BBC Books A1, A2 1999 1
44 Learn Chinese (Hanyu) the fast and fun way by Lifei Ji Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's 1997 1
This series is aimed at developing the student's communicative ability in Chinese by learning language structures, functions and related cultural knowledge as well as training their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The four volumes in this series gradually increase in difficulty, taking the student from a beginners level to an intermediate level of Chinese. The lessons in each book are structured in the same way; the lesson is begun with a text that forms the basis of the exercises, which cover the grammar and vocabulary encountered in the passage.This is followed by conversation practice and phonetics and pronunciation drills. In this first volume, pinyin is used in the first half, but in the second half Chinese characters are used with pinyin beneath. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 45 New Practical Chinese Reader 1 - Textbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press A1 2003 4
The workbook accompanying "New Practical Chinese Reader 1 - Textbook." In addition to exercises for studying characters, phonetics, sentence patterns and words, it also includes general exercises for speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing 46 New Practical Chinese Reader 1 - Workbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press A1 2003 5
This is the second volume in the series. The lessons in this book build on the material taught in the first volume, and pick up where the first book ended, at lesson 15. The lessons begin with a short article that forms the basis of the exercises, which cover the grammar and vocabulary encountered in the passage. This volume focuses on teaching fundamental sentence patterns. Pinyin is not used in this book, only tone marks. A vocabulary index is included at the back of the book. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 47 New Practical Chinese Reader 2 - Textbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press A2 2003 4
The workbook accompanying "New Practical Chinese Reader 2 - Textbook." It contains exercises on pronunciation, vocabulary, Chinese characters, and grammar. It also aims to increase the student's communicative and linguistic competence in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating 48 New Practical Chinese Reader 2 - Workbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press A2 2003 5
49 New Practical Chinese Reader 3 - Textbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press 2003 1
The workbook accompanying "New Practical Chinese Reader 3 - Textbook." The exercises in this book provide further coverage of the material taught in the textbook, and aim at enhancing language acquisition and retention 50 New Practical Chinese Reader 3 - Workbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press 2003 1
The fourth volume in the series, which further consolidate, expand and deepen students' understanding of lexical items and sentence patterns. Besides introducing more vocabulary items and grammatical points, the ten lessons in this book concentrate on the teaching of complex sentences and paragraphs not emphasised in the preceeding volumes. The cultural sections, written entirely in Chinese, illustrate the differences between China and the West, and introduce various aspects of Chinese society, highlighting traditional and contemporary cultural life. The audio cassettes accompanying this book may be found in the Language Lab 51 New Practical Chinese Reader 4 - Textbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press B2 2003 2
The workbook accompanying "New Practical Chinese Reader 4 - Textbook." The exercises in this book provide further coverage of the material taught in the textbook, and aim at enhancing language acquisition and retention 52 New Practical Chinese Reader 4 - Workbook Liu Xun Beijing Language and Culture University Press B2 2003 1
This book provides several dialogues set in everyday situations in Chinese with the English translations written beneath. The texts are accompanied by tables of vocabulary, and are followed by exercises that test comprehension and consolidate material learnt 53 Practical English Dialogues A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 2002 1

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