Chinese Primer, Volumes 1-3 (GR) Notes and exercises / Daduan Chen ... [et al.]. Notes and exercises /

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chʻen, Ta-tuan, Author.

Contributor:

Chʻen, Ta-tuan.

Series:

The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese

The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese ; v.46

Language:

Chinese

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Chinese language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (634 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

Chinese and English.

Summary:

Four experienced teachers of beginning Chinese have developed this introductory textbook. A pilot edition has been tested widely in classrooms and refined over a period of years. Among its salient features are lessons that are lively, amusing, and relevant to everyday life: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound system of Chinese; extensive grammar notes, clearly presented, with attention to mistakes English-speakers are likely to make; a carefully sequenced character workbook embodying a new and effective approach to the learning of Chinese characters; and audiovisual reinforcement via a complete set of audiotapes and two videotapes, one of which offers entertaining dramatizations of the lesson dialogues. The Chinese Primer is available in two versions, one using the GR system of romanization, which employs different spellings instead of diacritical marks for different tones, the other using Pinyin romanization. The contents of the four volumes are as follows: (1) Blue Book [Lessons]: Introduction; foundation work on pronunciation; lesson dialogues in romanized Chinese and English; appendices; glossary-index. (2) Red Book [Notes and Exercises]: Vocabularies; grammar notes and culture notes keyed to the lessons; exercises. (3) Yellow Book [Character Workbook]: workbook. (4) Green Book [Pinyin Character Text]: Texts of the lessons in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and a Chinese introduction for teachers. The first three volumes: Blue Book, Red Book, and Yellow Book are sold as a set GR Set or Pinyin Set). In addition, the GR Blue Book [Lessons], GR Red Book [Notes and Exercises], and GR Yellow Book [Character Workbook], along with the Pinyin Green Book [Pinyin Character Text] are sold separately. The GR Audio and video materials are available from the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University for use with this text. These supplementary materials are not published by Princeton University Press. For further information and prices, contact the Chinese Linguistics Project, 231 Palmer Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08544. (609-258-4269).

Contents:

Cover Page

Volume I

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Chinese Characters: Units 1-8

Appendix I: Additional Interjections and Particles

Appendix II: Characters with Phonetic Modification

Appendix III: Simplified Characters in This Book

Appendix IV: Simplified Components

Appendix V: Characters Arranged by Radicals

Appendix VI: New Words in Stage Directions

Appendix VII: New Words in the Song "Ben Shi

Index

Volume II

Half-title Page

Unit- I

Lesson- 1

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Classified by Type

Grammar Notes

Culture Notes

Culture Note 1: Chinese Names

Exercises

Lesson- 2

Culture Note 2: Chinese Names for Westerners

Lesson- 3

Culture Note 3: Greetings and Partings I

Lesson- 4

Culture Note 4: Greetings and Partings II

Lesson- 5

Culture Note 5: "Big Characters, Little Characters", Chinese Calligraphy

Unit- II

Culture Note 6: How to Address and Refer to People I

Culture Note 7: How to Address and Refer to People II

Culture Note 8: Food and Dining I

Culture Note 9: Beverages

Unit- III

Vocabulary.

Vocabulary Classified by Type

Culture Note 10: "Fanchye" and Names for Other Imported Things

Culture Note 11: More on Chinese Names

Unit- IV

Culture Note 12: Transliteration of the Names of Foreign Countries

Culture Note 13: The Terms "Jong.gwo" and "Way.gwo

Unit- V

Culture Note 14: The May Fourth Movement

Culture Note 15: Chinese Words for "Chinese

Unit- VI

Culture Note 16: Polite Language

Culture Note 17: Telephone Talk

Culture Note 18: Kinship Chart

Exercises.

Unit- VII

Unit- VIII

Grammar Checklist

List of Warnings

Volume III

Introduction

Foundation Work

The Single Tones

The Initials and Finals

The Initials

The Finals

Tonal Spelling

Full Tones in Combination and Tone Sandhi

Difficult Sounds

Unit- I: Students

Ren's Best Friend (I)

Ren's Best Friend (II)

Being Finicky

Chinese Class

A Special Diet

Unit- II: Drink, Eat, Run

Drink

Eat (I)

Eat (II)

Run

Unit- III: A Timely Visitor

Looking At Rooms

Messy Room

The Visitor is Coming

Cleaning Up

Unit- IV: Dogged Localizers and Directional Complements

Unable to See Clearly or "Haven't Seen Clearly

In the Doghouse

Lying Down on the Job

Inside Outside

Unit- V: The Nose Job

I'm Sleepy

The Job

The Big Sleep

Lii's "Good Deed

Unit- VI : Who's Next?

All Set

Please Help, Mom

A Quiet Roommate

Mother's Care

Unit- VII : Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

She Has a Boyfriend

They're Home

Mr. Lii Wenshin

Unit- VIII : Love Me, Love My Chinese

Why "Wife"?

Forced Study

Why Study Chinese

The Best Poem I've Ever Read.

Appendix A: Pinyin Romanization

Appendix B: The Development of the Chinese Language and Its Script

Glossary and Index.

Notes:

Previously published by Harvard University Press, 1989.

"Pinyin"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691036960

0691036969

OCLC:

1244627526