Re: "Kanji in Context" - Chinese equivalent?


"Nigel Greenwood" <ndsg_mmii@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1162982601.877654.211550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mike Wright wrote:
I was disappointed to hear, several years back, that the latest course
was introducing writing almost from the beginning. Apparently there is
no institutional memory to tell them that this is counter-productive. It
imposes a much greater burden on the students for little or no benefit.
You can get a lot of vocab and grammar done in 3 months (at 30 hours per
week).

I agree: the secret of reading Chinese is knowing Chinese in the first
place (as is the case with young native speakers). Failing that, you
need to know the basic structures pretty well.


The following are geared towards speakers of Chinese dialects already, and require a reading knowledge for Chinese

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A rapidly growing group of Chinese language students are known as "advanced beginners" or "heritage students" - those who were raised in the United States in Chinese-speaking homes and can speak the language but cannot read or write it. Liu and Wang's primer is addressed to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding population of Chinese language students. This text takes the approach of a culture-based primer with lessons organised around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythology, customs and cuisine. The focus is not on sentence grammar but rather on reading strategies and the teaching of "discourse grammar", a new, more authentic approach to the study of languages.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primer-Advanced-Beginners-Chinese-Vol/dp/0231125550/sr=8-1/qid=1162991876/ref=sr_1_1/202-5425946-2987807?ie=UTF8&s=books
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Vol 1 (Paperback)
by Irene Liu, Wang Hailong


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primer-Advanced-Beginners-Chinese-Vol/dp/0231125577/sr=8-9/qid=1162991876/ref=sr_1_9/202-5425946-2987807?ie=UTF8&s=books
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Vol 2 (Paperback)
by Irene Liu, Wang Hailong

And simplified versions:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primer-Advanced-Beginners-Chinese-Simplified/dp/023113567X/sr=8-3/qid=1162991876/ref=sr_1_3/202-5425946-2987807?ie=UTF8&s=books
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Simplified Character Version: v. 1 (Hardcover)
by Duanduan Li, Irene Liu, Lening Liu, Yanping Xie, Hailong Wang, Zhirong Wang
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primer-Advanced-Beginners-Chinese-Simplified/dp/0231135858/sr=8-5/qid=1162991876/ref=sr_1_5/202-5425946-2987807?ie=UTF8&s=books
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Simplified Character Version: v. 2 (Hardcover)
by Duanduan Li, Irene Liu, Lening Liu, Yanping Xie, Hailong Wang, Zhirong Wang

Dyl.

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