A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. Over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary which frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese are dealt with here. Specifically, a comparative approach has been adopted. Contextual comparisons are made between the different usage of Chinese and English in terms of grammatical as well as vocabulary points. The book helps beginners of Chinese to get things right from the start. For teachers and more advanced students, it also serves as an easy and efficient reference for the essential grammatical and vocabulary points given in Chinese textbooks for beginners. Since its publication in 1989, A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese has been well received by learners and teachers of beginning Chinese. This simplified Chinese edition, based on the second edition of the book published in 1992, is produced for the convenient use of students who are more used to reading simplified Chinese characters.
| ISBN: | 9789629962289 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2005 |
| Author: | Shou-he Tian |
| Publisher: | The Chinese University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Genres: |
Language learning: speaking skills |