Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese

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The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chin ...

Claudia Ross is Professor of Chinese at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. She has served as President of the Chinese ...

The RouTledge CouRse in Modern Mandarin Chinese Workbook Level 1: Traditional Characters Claudia Ross Baozhang He Pei-Chia Chen ...

First published 2010 by Routledge Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingd ...

Acknowledgments v Acknowledgments We thank all of the people who have been involved in the development of this course. We give a ...

vi Introduction Introduction The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is an innovative two-year course for English-speaki ...

Introduction vii ■ (^) Ongoing focus on pronunciation. Pronunciation instruction and practice continue throughout the course. ■ ...

viii Introduction ■ (^) Focus on Chinese Characters: Beginning in Lesson 6, exercises that guide students to learn proper stroke ...

An overview of Mandarin Chinese ix An overview of Mandarin Chinese Mandarin and the dialects of Chinese This course is a two-yea ...

x An overview of Mandarin Chinese Pinyin uses the letters of the English alphabet, but the pronunciations it assigns to some of ...

An overview of Mandarin Chinese xi a tone mark. Sometimes tones are indicated by the numbers 1–4 written after the syllable. Whe ...

xii List of abbreviations List of abbreviations S subject O object V verb AdjV adjectival verb ActV action verb VP verb phrase N ...

Contents xiii Contents Acknowledgments v Introduction vi An overview of Mandarin Chinese ix List of abbreviations xii Lesson 1 1 ...

xiv Contents Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson ...

Lesson 1 Workbook Listening and speaking  Pronunciation and Pinyin  Listen and repeat Tones 1.1. The four contour tones Here i ...

2 Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Level 1 Third tone (3rd tone, falling-rising tone) hFo lFo(shC) nH wI yG xiFo hGn ...

Lesson 1 Workbook 3 d, t, n, l The following syllables begin with d, t, n, or l. Some of them have been introduced in Lesson 1. ...

4 Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Level 1 2.2. Which tone? Listen to the recording and circle the syllable that is s ...

Lesson 1 Workbook 5  Structure drills  1.  Statement or question? (Use and Structure notes 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6) Listen to each se ...