Working Mandarin for Beginners (Paperback w/ CDs)

Working Mandarin for Beginners (Paperback w/ CDs)
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Working Mandarin for Beginners is designed to enable English-speaking business students and professionals with no prior knowledge of Chinese to develop the basic communication skills necessary for a business trip to China or another work environment in which Mandarin is spoken.

Major Features:

Twenty-four lessons, including five review lessons.

Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding.

Lessons cover important basics, such as introductions and greetings, counting, reserving a hotel room, taking public transportation, and asking for directions.

Lessons cover business tasks such as coordinating and conducting meetings, selling products, and negotiating agreements—all in Chinese.

Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, language points, cultural points, pronunciation drills, and interactive homework.

Course concludes with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of business study.

Pinyin is used throughout so students can start speaking Mandarin immediately.

Includes some basic lessons in the formation of Chinese characters.

Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com).

Student Book

Includes MP3 tracks of dialogues, vocabulary lists, and audio exercises on CD.

Lessons are valuable to the classroom student as well as self-directed independent learners.

Product ID: 109332 ISBN-10: 1589011376

Categories: Business, Learn, Travel

Supporting languages: Chinese, Mandarin - See Chinese

Platforms/media types: Printed Matter, Audio CD