Claudia Ross,Jocelyn Ross,Fred Fang-Yu Wang: The Lady in the Painting: A Basic Chinese Reader, Traditional Characters

The Lady in the Painting: A Basic Chinese Reader, Traditional Characters


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The Lady in the Painting is the only full-length story written in Chinese for low-intermediate level learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. Using an inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, it serves as an excellent transition between the short reading passages that students encounter in a basic level Chinese course and the longer and more demanding passages in subsequent levels. The original edition of the story has been widely used for decades as a supplementary reader in Chinese language classes in the United States. This expanded version-which includes an interactive CD-ROM-makes the story more accessible to learners in a number of ways. * The book is available in simplified characters as well as traditional characters. (The original was available only in traditional characters.) * It includes extensive vocabulary lists, structure notes, and exercises for each chapter. * The CD-ROM provides extensive listening practice by way of sentence-length and paragraph-length readings as well as listening comprehension activities.* The CD-ROM also includes a toggle function that enables readers to switch between traditional and simplified characters at any point in the story.

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Author: Claudia Ross,Jocelyn Ross,Fred Fang-Yu Wang
Number of Pages: 160 pages
Published Date: 15 Apr 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Country: New Haven, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300115499
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