Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials + CD-ROM

Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials is a one-of-a-kind practice guide that can be used together with any Chinese book or language programme, and dramatically enhance your speaking. No matter what book or course you are using to learn Chinese, it takes a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective practice activities including more than 16 hours of audio material to help polish your spoken Chinese. This book corresponds to Basic Spoken Chinese, Volume 1 and allows you to move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency. Practice Essentials includes:

• Carefully designed activities to help solidify every aspect of your spoken Chinese skills;
• Pronunciation exercises;
• Vocabulary and Grammar summaries;
• Substitution drills;
• Transformation and Response drills;
• Role Play & Listening Comprehension exercises;
• Dictation exercises; and
• Translation exercises.

The CD-ROM contains over 16 hours of audio material, as well as (printable) PDF files of hundreds of additional practice pages and exercises. Together with or after this book, you can use Basic Written Chinese Vol 1 (Tuttle, 2011) if you want to learn Chinese reading and writing. It introduces the highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way. The materials in Basic Spoken Chinese Vol 1 allow you to move from complete beginner level to basic fluency.