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The go-to guide to Chinese-now with streaming audio of spoken Chinese that dramatically improves your pronunciation skills

From reading and recognizing Chinese script to mastering vocabulary, basic grammar, and sentence structure, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese provides everything you need to build a solid foundation in this language. Ideal for students looking for reinforcement of instruction in class or from a formal textbook, this workbook provides simplified versions of Chinese characters with the pinyin transliteration, making it easy to read, and all grammar examples have English translations.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese features:

.Bite-sized formats for grammar, vocabulary, script, and communication structures

make learning a snap

.150 practice exercises and review units that build comprehension

.English-Chinese and Chinese [Pinyin]-English glossaries

.High-frequency vocabulary lists on a variety of key topics

.New to this edition: 60 minutes of streaming audio recordings for increased listening comprehension and accent improvement

Preface
Part I1 Pronouns · Simple sentence structure · Nations and nationalities
2 The verb you (I) to have · Family
3 Questions with ma · Fruits
4 Adverbs ye and dou· Food
5 Sentences with a verbal predicate · Time words and daily activities
Review 1 Lessons 1-5
Part II
6 Questions with an interrogative pronoun · Beverages
7 Numbers 1-100 · Arithmetic expressions
8 Sentences with a nominal predicate · Expressing age · Telling time
9 Years, months, dates, days of the week · Expressing dates
10 Numeral measure words · Demonstratives with a numeral measure word · Clothing · Verbs for put on/wear
Review 2 Lessons 6-10
Part III
11 Sentences with an adjectival predicate · Elliptical questions with ne · Greetings and descriptions
12 Affirmative-negative questions · Moods and tastes
13 Alternative questions · Occupations
14 Attributives · Demonstratives and noun phrases · The school
15 The de phrase · Questions with ba · Colors and more clothing
Review 3 Lessons 11-15
Part IV
16 The verb you (II) indicating existence · More measure words · The classroom
17 Location words · Verbs you, shì, zài indicating existence
18 Verb reduplication · Tag questions with hao ma· Activities and chores
19 The complement of state · Classroom activities
20 Sentences with subject-predicate as predicate · Adjective reduplication · Parts of the body
Review 4 Lessons 16-20
Part V
21 Pivotal sentences · Sentences with double objects · Entertainment
22 Prepositional phrases with zài, cóng, dào · Public places
23 Adverbials · Sentences with serial verb phrases · Daily Routines
24 Auxiliary verbs (I) xiang, yào, huì, néng, keyi · Sports and games
25 Events that are going to take place · Future plans
Review 5 Lessons 21-25
Part VI
26 The sentence-final particle le· Shopping
27 The perfective particle le · Expressing completed actions
28 The sentence-final particle · Auxiliary verbs (II) huì, kenéng, bìxu, yinggai, yào, dei · Weather conditions
29 Comparative constructions · Quantity complement · Making comparisons
30 The progressive aspect of an action · Expressing actions in progress
Review 6 Lessons 26-30
English-Chinese glossary
Chinese (Pinyin)-English glossary
Answer key
Translations of Ni zhidao ma? Do you know?
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