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Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture
Encounters is a ground-breaking Chinese language instructional program for English speakers. Reflecting years of international collaboration between Yale University Press and China International Publishing Group, Encounters is a fully integrated multimedia program for beginner-level Chinese that immerses students in the sounds of Mandarin Chinese while simultaneously exposing them to the sights and culture of China. The Lady in the Painting: A Basic Chinese ReaderA well-known Chinese folktale is retold here within the limits of an elementary 300 character vocabulary. Yale and Pinyin romanization with Traditional characters. An excellent text for beginning Chinese students. Available in both simplified and traditional characters.
Communicating in Chinese: Listening and SpeakingCommunicating in Chinese offers a proficiency-based approach to learning standard Mandarin. Focusing on all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the program consists of a series of graded tasks that approximate the real-life tasks that a student might face.
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