John De Francis Bücher

Describes some of the concepts underlying the Chinese language and writing system, and gives the author's position on a number of ideas about the language.

This text presents dialogues on everyday topics together with analysis of anticipated points of difficulty for the student and numerous sentences illustrating the usage of all new words and grammar. "Intermediate Chinese" has a number of unique features, chief among them is that the dialogues were first recorded and then transcribed and edited. This has resulted in livelier conversational material than is generally found in textbooks.

In this parallel character version of Intermediate Chinese , dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Intermediate Chinese offers in English and in pinyin romanization of Mandarin.Published for Seton Hall University

Accompanying coursebooks edited by Erin Quirk and Tanying Dong. Includes Essential Chinese (250 p.), Intermediate Chinese (362 p.), Advanced Chinese (300 p.), and Complete guide to Chinese characters (83 p.).

In this parallel character version of Beginning Chinese , dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Beginning Chinese offers in English and in pinyin romanization of Mandarin.

A complete revision of the first volume in the Yale Linguistic Series, this new version, in pinyin romanization, and aimed at secondary school and college levels, is an introduction to spoken Chinese. It includes dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, examples of characters, substitution drills, and miscellaneous exercises in the form of games like crossword puzzles. There is a combined glossary-index, supplementary vocabulary for each lesson, notes, and a detailed suggested study guide. John De Francis is research professor of Chinese at Seton Hall University. Yale Linguistics Series, 1. The features of this introductory text for learning the Chinese language include:-Pinyin romanization-Vocabulary of 600 items-Pronunciation drills, dialogues, sentence-building exercises, pattern drills, substitution tables, games and other learning aids, memorization exercises, and a combined glossary-index-No characters are used