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Mandarin Primer : An Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese / Yuen Ren Chao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chao, Yuen Ren, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Andere Sprachen.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Dialects--Mandarin.
- Local Subjects:
- Chinese language--Dialects--Mandarin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Mandarin Primer".
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-73288-X
- OCLC:
- 1024020817
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