Basic Chinese - Reading & Writing Practice Book

This comprehensive Chinese character workbook can be used with any textbook or on its own to enhance your Mandarin reading and writing skills dramatically!No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice. Here is a wealth of effective activities and drills—plus an hour of native speaker audio recordings—to help you learn the 288 basic Chinese characters quickly and effectively. This book follows the Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading & Writing textbook but works equally well with other coursebooks or on its own. The free companion media includes native-speaker audio recordings as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra exercises, activities and a set of 288 printable flash cards to help you learn the basic characters. Basic Mandarin Chinese—Reading and Writing Practice Book includes a wealth of carefully-designed activities designed to improve every aspect of your reading and writing skills, including:Character writing practice sheetsDictation, fill-in-the-blank, and dialog completion exercisesAnswering questions, reading maps, converting written style to spoken styleIdentifying radicals and phonetics, punctuating sentencesWriting tasks based on real-life schedules, photographs and name cardsTranslation exercisesThe helpful companion media includes:Audio recordings by native Mandarin speakersHundreds of printable practice pagesA printable set of 288 Chinese flashcardsAbout the Basic Mandarin Chinese series:Respected Chinese language educator Dr. Cornelius Kubler has taught Mandarin Chinese to diplomats, business people and students for several decades—using an effective learning system with two separate but integrated "tracks" to help you learn the spoken and written forms of the language more efficiently and more successfully. The materials in this series have been acclaimed as a breakthrough in Mandarin Chinese language learning. This book is a new edition of Basic Written Chinese: Practice Essentials.All media content is accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.