Mandarin Primer : : An Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese / / Yuen Ren Chao.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1948
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
  • CHAPTER II. PRONUNCIATION AND ROMANIZATION
  • CHAPTER III. GRAMMAR
  • CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTERS
  • CHAPTER V. METHOD OF STUDY
  • PART TWO: FOUNDATION WORK
  • TO THE STUDENT
  • LESSON A. THE TONES
  • LESSON Β. DIFFICULT SOUNDS
  • LESSON C. THE SYSTEM OF SOUNDS
  • LESSON D. SYSTEM OF TONE SANDHI
  • PART THREE: THE LESSONS
  • TO THE STUDENT
  • LESSON 1. YOU, I, AND HE ‘FOUR MEN’
  • LESSON 2. THINGS
  • LESSON 3. SPEAKING CHINESE
  • LESSON 4. TELEPHONING
  • LESSON 5. UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, BACK, AND MIDDLE
  • LESSON 6. A SMOKE RING
  • LESSON 7. MR. CAN'T STOP TALKING
  • LESSON 8. ANTONYMS
  • LESSON 9. A GOOD MAN
  • LESSON 10. THE TAILLESS RAT
  • LESSON 11. WATCHING THE YEAR OUT
  • LESSON 12. A RESCUE AT SEA
  • LESSON 13. INQUIRING AFTER A SICK MAN
  • LESSON 14. CONVERSATION WITH THE DOCTOR
  • LESSON 15. WORLD GEOGRAPHY
  • LESSON 16. CHINESE GEOGRAPHY
  • LESSON 17. TALKING ABOUT INDUSCO
  • LESSON 18. TO THE MINSHENG WORKS
  • LESSON 19. RENTING A HOUSE
  • LESSON 20. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
  • LESSON 21. LISTENING AND LISTENING IN ACT I. DICTATION
  • LESSON 22. STUDYING
  • LESSON 23. THE VERNACULAR LITERATURE MOVEMENT
  • LESSON 24. AN AMERICAN MAKES A SPEECH
  • VOCABULARY AND INDEX
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
  • SYNOPSIS OF TONAL SPELLING