This set of courses is specially designed with brand-new approaches for foreign students beginning to learn Chinese. Independent from one another yet integrated into a whole, there are three courses in this set: Intensive Spoken Chinese, The Most Common Chinese Radicals, and Rapid Literacy in Chinese.
The concentrated training in character learning will enable the student to enter into the reading stage in an unprecedented short time and taste the satisfaction and enjoyment of fluent comprehension.
This book is the first of a 3-book series created at the Beijing Language and Culture University to teach Chinese to adult foreigners. Unlike the approaches which attempt to teach both spoken and written Chinese simultaneously, which works well for languages with a phonetic written structure but not well for Chinese, this series teaches Chinese grammar and word forms and the most common spoken dialects first , while leaving the separable task of learning to read and write the non-phonetic Chinese characters for later.
This first book presents Chinese primarily through Pinyin, the phonetic romanization of Mandarin and Putonghua. This first book also exposes students to the corresponding Chinese characters (simplified Hanzi), but does not mandate or emphasize that they be learned at this time. Students will find the Intensive Spoken Chinese course easy to master, and will be able to communicate in Chinese in no time.
