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The Chinese Odyssey, Volume 2 combined textbook comprises the second semester of a first-year Chinese course for students in high school or college. Its ten lessons emphasize pronunciation and the use of colloquial expressions, to put students on... Read More »
An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature
by Zu-yan Chen
"不学诗, 无以言: If you do not study poetry, you will have no words."
—Confucius
Returning to a Chinese tradition that locates poetry at the heart of education, Li Bai & Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature offers an innovative... Read More »
An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature
"不学诗, 无以言: If you do not study poetry, you will have no words."—Confucius
Returning to a Chinese tradition that locates poetry at the heart of education, Li Bai & Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature offers an... Read More »
22 Miniscripts for Developing Advanced Listening Skills in Chinese
by Jianhua Bai, Juyu Sung, Hesheng Zhang
The Across the Straits transcript includes all of the listening material from the audio CDs and enhances the intermediate to advanced student’s listening comprehension.
Written in both simplified and traditional characters with pinyin.
22 Miniscripts for Developing Advanced Listening Skills in Chinese
The Across the Straits student book contains 22 miniscripts to help improve the listening skills of intermediate and advanced students.
Each of the 22 lessons within the book corresponds to the listening material found in the audio download and... Read More »
This companion to the bestselling Japanese: the Spoken Language begins with the two kana syllabaries and introduces approximately 300 kanji, following the Spoken Language text lesson by lesson. Appropriate for classroom or self-study programs. Non-... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
The Chinese Odyssey, Volume 2 set of five audio CDs contains audio content for all lessons, plus listening exercises and some speaking exercises from the CD-ROMs. This CD set corresponds to the Chinese Odyssey, Volume 2 textbook, workbook, and... Read More »
compiled by Andrew C. Chang
Comprehensive and current, this lexicon is the first specifically designed to serve the needs of English speakers doing business in and with China and other Mandarin-speaking areas. It combines practicality and ease of use in addressing a wide range... Read More »
An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course
The China Scene textbook explores modern Chinese through a range of contemporary social and cultural topics, such as the market economy and private enterprise, child adoption, single-parent households, and film and theater personalities. Presented... Read More »
Readings in Chinese Culture Series Vol. 2
by Weijia Huang, Qun Ao
Readings in Chinese Culture Series, Volume 2
How Far Away Is the Sun? is the second of a five-volume series of supplemental reading material that corresponds to five different levels of ACTFL proficiency guidelines. This collection of ten original... Read More »
Designed to cover the fifth term in a 3-year course, the New Practical Chinese Reader (NPCR), Volume 5 Textbook aims to develop the student’s ability to communicate using Chinese through the study of language structure and function, related cultural... Read More »
Expressive Literacy through Reading and Composition
Compiled by Qin-Hong Anderson
Masterworks Chinese Companion meets the needs of students from Chinese-speaking families or advanced non-native speakers who have mastered basic oral communication in Chinese but seek further development of their reading and writing skills. Students... Read More »
A New Five-Skilled Approach
This Companion Grammar Book to Chinese for Tomorrow, Volume 1 systematically explains the basic grammatical principles of Mandarin Chinese. Based on a step-by-step progression, and published separately from the textbook in order to give students and... Read More »
A New Five-Skilled Approach
Chinese for Tomorrow, Volume 1 begins with an introduction to Chinese pronunciation, pinyin, and computer input, with plenty of practice exercises. Ten lessons present dialogues and narratives centered around the lives of college students studying... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
The Chinese Odyssey, Volume 1 textbook lays the groundwork for solid Chinese language acquisition. Lessons emphasize pronunciation and the use of colloquial expressions, to put students on the right track to speaking Chinese accurately and fluently... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
The Chinese Odyssey, Volumes 3 & 4 set of two WMA audio CDs contains audio content for all lessons, plus listening exercises and some speaking exercises from the CD-ROMs. This audio set corresponds to the Chinese Odyssey, Volumes 3 & 4... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
by Xueying Wang, Li-chuang Chi, Liping Feng
The Chinese Odyssey, Volumes 3 & 4 workbook is comprised of reading, speaking, and listening exercises such as vocabulary quizzes, listening comprehension, role play, dialogue construction, fill-in-the blanks, e-mail composition, character/... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
The Chinese Odyssey, Volume 5 textbook solidifies students’ competence in modern Chinese communication. In year three of Chinese Odyssey, students will carry on more sophisticated discussions in Chinese and learn to express themselves in writing.... Read More »
Innovative Chinese Courseware
The Chinese Odyssey, Volumes 5 & 6 set of two WMA audio CDs contains audio content for all ten lessons of these two volumes, plus listening exercises and some speaking exercises from the CD-ROMs. This audio set corresponds to the Chinese Odyssey... Read More »
by Seiichi Makino, Michio Tsutsui
An indispensable reference tool for beginning-level students of Japanese, A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar offers a new approach to the interpretation of Japanese grammar and provides a convenient dictionary of grammar-related expressions.
The... Read More »
by Seiichi Makino, Michio Tsutsui
To advance beyond beginning-level Japanese, students must develop an understanding of complex sentence structures for reading authentic texts, a mastery of conjunctions and transitional phrases for coherent sentence production, and a familiarity... Read More »
by Tao-chung Yao
by Scott McGinnis
Add some fun to Chinese language learning! Let's Play Games in Chinese allows students to become more comfortable and confident as they use Chinese. This edition, with new drawings throughout, features dozens of games--from Simon Says to Visual... Read More »
Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millennium
Note: New Pathways: An Advanced Business Chinese Reader, a new and improved edition of Open For Business Volume 1, is available for purchase here.
Open for Business Volume 1 is a textbook & exercise book set filled with authentic, everyday... Read More »
A Cheng & Tsui Bilingual Handbook of Contemporary Colloquial Expressions
2nd Edition
2nd Edition
Compiled by Yu Feng, Yaohua Shi, Zhijie Jia, Judith M. Amory, Jie Cai
Do you ever wish you had the eloquence to raise the dead (能把死人说活)?
By introducing fun, popular vocabulary, phrases, and proverbs that are rarely encountered in formal classroom instruction, Pop Chinese is designed to help intermediate and advanced... Read More »
The Origin of Chingis Khan
Adapted by Paul Kahn
This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan's death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of Chingis Khan, and the creation of an empire that... Read More »