Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials. Cornelius C. Kubler

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      READ AND WRITE MANDARIN CHINESE AS THE CHINESE DO

      CORNELIUS C. KUBLER & JERLING GUO KUBLER

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      Copyright © 2015 Cornelius C. Kubler and Jerling Guo Kubler

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      A Note to the Learner

      When it comes to learning Chinese, practice is essential, of course. This workbook offers you many options for practicing and polishing your written Chinese, and was designed to be used in conjunction with the textbook Intermediate Written Chinese, as well as its companion volumes Intermediate Spoken Chinese and Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials. However, this workbook may be used to hone Chinese reading and writing skills no matter which textbook or course you’re using.

      Here are some of the special features of Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials:

      • This workbook has been designed so it can be used either in a class with an instructor or by independent learners working on their own.

      • Both simplified and traditional characters are taught and practiced in the same volume. This means students can learn either or both kinds of characters without having to purchase another book, and instructors have the flexibility to teach a combined class where some students read and write one type of characters and other students the other type.

      • This workbook provides character practice sheets for the 336 characters introduced in Intermediate Written Chinese, with complete information on stroke order and direction for both the simplified and traditional forms of the characters.

      • Reading and writing exercises are included, such as those involving dictation and the answering of questions based on the content of each lesson.

      • English-Chinese translation exercises are provided for each unit.

      • There are printable flashcards for all the new characters and words, with Chinese characters on one side and Pinyin and English on the other.

      • For dictation practice, a native-speaker audio is included, as well as additional printable pdf files.

      • The Intermediate Written Chinese Instructor’s Guide (available gratis from the publisher) contains detailed suggestions for using these materials, as well as a wealth of exercises for use by instructors in class or by tutors during practice sessions.

      附注

      《进阶中文：读与写》练习册专供读写课使用，提供大量的阅读与写作练习，极为实用。学习者 宜与配套的《进阶中文：读与写》、《进阶中文：听与说》及《进阶中文：听与说》练习册一起 使用。本练习册亦可作为任何中级中文课程之补充教材，以提高学习者的读写能力。此套教材包 括一本《进阶中文：读与写》教师手册，指导教师如何使用此教材。

      附注

      《進階中文：讀與寫》練習冊專供讀寫課使用，提供大量的閱讀與寫作練習，極為實用。學習者 宜與配套的《進階中文：讀與寫》、《進階中文：聽與說》及《進階中文：聽與說》練習冊一起 使用。本練習冊亦可作為任何中級中文課程之補充教材，以提高學習者的讀寫能力。此套教材包 括一本《進階中文：讀與寫》教師手冊，指導教師如何使用此教材。

      Acknowledgments

      I’m indebted to a number of people for their assistance in the preparation of this volume. It’s not possible to mention everyone who participated, but special thanks are due the following for their contributions:

      For writing the simplified and traditional characters on early drafts of the character practice sheets, Minjun Jiang, Jerling Guo Kubler, Ching-yi Sun, and Zhe Zhang.

      For assistance with the character presentation sheets and related work, student research assistants Emily Chang, Angie Chien, Andy C. Chiu, Anthang Hoang, and Peter Rankin.

      For assistance in proofreading the Chinese language content of this volume, my graduate student Yuqi Ji.

      For assistance in drafting the paper flashcards, Nikki Fang.

      For advice and assistance with computer-related work, Adam Jianjun Wang, Senior Instructional Technology specialist at Williams College; and Peter Leimbigler of Asia Communications Québec Inc. All of the Chinese language content in this volume was processed using the KEY 5.4 Chinese language software that Dr. Leimbigler and his colleagues developed.

      For their careful editing and many helpful suggestions during the production of this course, my editors June Chong and Sandra Korinchak. I also wish to express my appreciation for their enthusiastic support of the project and its development to Tuttle’s Publisher Eric Oey and Vice President Christina Ong, and to Nancy Goh, Angie Ang, and the