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CHI4168 MY FIRST CHINESE WORDS $59.95
Box set, includes 36 books, CD and User aid, ISBN:9787561914168
Start your child's Chinese studies early with this boxed set of 36 easy-to-follow, colorful children's books. Besides these fun, theme-based books, the set also includes a user guide, audio CD, two workbooks, and teaching aids useful in helping your students with each lesson. Upon completing this series, your young learner will recognize basic Chinese characters and sentence patterns.
CHINESE PARADISE
Chinese Paradise is intended for elementary school students of Chinese. It has three levels, each of which consists of: Student's Book A and B, accompanied with CD, CD_ROM, and cards of words and expressions. Workbook A and B are accompanied by a CD and expressions. This course in 3 levels uses pictures, songs and games. At the end of the course students will know 50 characters and 300 words, be able to recite some nursery rhymes and will have learned a little about Chinese culture.
CHINESE PARADISE FLASHCARDS (3 Sets) $22.95 Each
Part of the popular “Chinese Paradise” textbook series featuring colorful illustrations, this set of bound flashcards is a perfect way to study and memorize characters.
CHINESE MADE EASY FOR KIDS
The primary goal of this series is to provide elementary school student with a solid foundation for learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. This collection is designed to emphasize the development of communication skills ie: listening and speaking. The materials include four full color textbooks, each supplemented by a CD, flash cards and a workbook. Flash cards are available for levels 1 & 2, each flash card is associated with a lesson in the book, and the set includes 135 word cards, and 39 picture cards.
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My Chinese Book Simplified Character
Far East My Chinese Book is a complete program for students aged 6-9 learning Chinese as beginners. It is designed to enable young students to experience and learn Chinese language and culture in a fun and exciting way through lively pictures, photos, games, sounds and more. This series consists of three levels, each accompanied by a Students Book, a Workbook, a Teacher's Guide, Flash Cards, and an audiotape. Colorful illustrations and photos in the Student's Book create communicative and meaningful contexts to make learning authentic and appealing to young students. The workbook reinforces learning through hands-on activities. The Teacher's Guide provides creative ideas for instruction, as well as reproducible worksheets. The audiotape is a must for classroom and home review. Both traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese editions are available, please contact us for prices if you are interested in the traditional edition.
Chinese Culture and Language
Written in simple sentences in both English and Chinese, this book is divided into three parts. Part One contains authentic photos that are self-explanatory. Part Two provides coloring sheets for the entertainment of younger readers. Part Three includes an assortment of activities that can assess the reader's knowledge of Chinese culture.
TUT3615 CHINESE IN A FLASH VOL 1 448 FLASH CARD SET $24.95
Philip Yungkin Lee ISBN:9780804833615
Tuttle Flash Cards is a comprehensive and well_designed 488 flash card method which helps beginning and intermediate learners of Chinese. The character in its traditional form is on the front of each card, the back includes a smaller version of the simplified character, its pronunciation, English translation, and other valuable information. A sample sentence is included to reinforce correct grammar and usage. Each set comes with a booklet that explains how to use the cards, a list of characters, and indexes listed by radical, stroke count, and alphabetically by pinyin romanization. Each set features the everyday verbs, nouns and adjectives arranged in thematic groups reflecting common situations.
TUT3622 CHINESE IN A FLASH Volume 2 448 Flash Card Set $22.95
Philip Yungkin Lee, ISBN:9780804833622
A companion to Chinese in a Flash Volume 1, this boxed set contains another 448 flash cards featuring more of the most common Chinese vocabulary used in everyday speech. An accompanying booklet explains how to use the cards and lists all the characters covered, with indices by radical and stroke count and by pinyin romanization.
FEP9303 English-Chinese Chinese-English Flash Cards $9.95
These bilingual flash cards are divided into two sets with twelve different topics: animals, fruits, vegetables, sports, transportation, weather, foods, colors, daily life, jobs, feelings, and illnesses. The useful words and lovely color pictures make learning English and Chinese easier and more fun for young students. Zhuyin, Pinyin, the Kenyon and Knott Phonetic Alphabet, and American English pronunciation are all used to make the learning of correct pronunciation easier.
FEP9303 Flash Cards Set 1 ISBN:4718159029303
FEP9310 Flash Cards Set 2 ISBN:4718159029310
FOLLOW JADE! 30 minutes, $19.95 Each DVD
Children will learn over 40 different words and phrases in each video that they can use everyday. In Let’s Go To Market children will visit a market and farm in China, and learn about fruits, animals, body parts, action verbs, and more. In Let's Visit Chinese Kindergarten the children will spend the day with students at a Chinese kindergarten, where they will learn greetings, numbers, counting, colors, songs, and more. Children learn while having fun, through Jade’s engaging and interactive teaching style. Key vocabulary words are shown on screen with Romanized Pinyin spellings, and each section completes with a special review to enhance learning. DVD contains chapter marks and interactive menus.
PRACTICAL CHINESE LEARNING GAME (10 IN 1) - $19.95
An effective, efficient and fun way to learn speaking, listening, and reading Chinese while playing a simple board game. With ten different levels, the game package includes 100 picture cards and 100 Chinese character cards, a colored poster, a Chinese character poster and more. Students will be challenged to recognize characters, make sentences, and exercise their powers of recall. After playing the games, they should be familiar with the words on the cards and should be able to create sentences based on these cards.
CHI2156 - Simplified Characters ISBN:9780972952156
CHI2101 - Traditional Characters ISBN:9780972952101
FEP9914 English-Chinese Playing Card Dictionary $81.95
The English-Chinese Playing Card Dictionary is based on the Far East Illustrated English-Chinese Dictionary and consists of five packs of cards with different topics: Animals I, Animals II, People, Plants, and Objects. Each set of 54 cards includes 54 everyday words, pictures, and pronunciations with the Kenyon and Knott Phonetic Alphabet (K.K.), the International Phonetic Alphabet (D.J.) and Pinyin. For beginning students of Chinese this is an excellent learning tool.
FEP0500 Listen and Read, Think and Learn (8 Books and 1 CD) $38.50
ISBN:4718159310500
This series contains eight easy, large print books and one CD. The bright, attractive, easy-to-read design appeals to young students. The superb full-color illustrations encourage browsing. Elementary students can easily learn the basic Chinese characters through vivid pictures. The language is age-appropriate. This series is a part of any student's first step toward success in learning Chinese. Appendix includes Pinyin/Zhuyin/Chinese/English.
LET'S SING MANDARIN BOOK & CD $14.95 Each
This special series for American students to learn Chinese has been developed by a teacher and classroom tested at the Singapore American school and promotes the learning of Chinese through songs which use familiar rhyme tunes and melodies. The songs are task-based and incorporate many proven approaches to language teaching, including total physical response and multiple intelligences. The book is written in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English and is accompanied by a CD.
SAY IT EASILY
An innovative, comic book-style series in three volumes designed to teach everyday Chinese. Each page contains an illustration depicting a social situation and accompanying the drawing is the phrase which corresponds to it in English, Pinyin Chinese characters, with notes in Korean and Japanese. The primary purpose of the texts is to teach learners how to express thoughts such as gratitude, delight, annoyance, surprise, disappointment, and hope verbally. Each volume comes with
a CD.
FLUENT CHINESE
This is a continuation of the “Say it Easily” series for advanced students with more nuanced expressions and longer dialogs which depict how to use the expressions in context.
Chinese for Middle School Simplified
The revised edition of Chinese for Middle School is a series of basic Mandarin Chinese language programs designed for students aged twelve to sixteen. To aid comprehension, the book presents vivid illustrations alongside new words. Pronunciation Practice and Key Structures are also emphasized, along with situation-based conversations and short compositions. This series provides instruction for both oral and written Chinese. To integrate culture and language, language materials are presented in the context of Chinese culture, values, and beliefs. Two sets of character cards are designed specifically for teachers to use in the classroom and for students to review at home. This series includes: Student Book, Workbook, Teacher's Guide, Character Cards, CD and CD-ROM. Both traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese editions are available, please contact us for prices if you are interested in the traditional edition.
FEP0995 CD-ROM ISBN:4718159800995 Win 98 to Vista, this CD-ROM is designed as a supplementary material for Chinese for Middle School.$29.95
BA4009 BARRON'S AP CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: with Audio CDs $29.99
Book and 3 CDs 592pp, Available January 2009, pre-orders accepted. ISBN:9780764194009
This brand-new manual prepares students for a subject that has just been added to the Advanced Placement program. Separate sections review all parts of the new exam: Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Speaking, and Culture. Each section also includes exercises, and the listening and reading sections include practice questions with answer keys and answer explanations. The book reflects the AP exam’s standards, presenting questions in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Two full-length practice exams are presented with answer keys. Enclosed with the manual are three audio compact discs, which present spoken material covering the exam’s Listening, Writing, and Speaking sections.
CHINA PANORAMA
Bisoung Lu
The Development Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Peking recognized a need for a comprehensive Chinese textbook series, and China Panorama is their answer. Textbooks of several levels meet the needs of the beginning and intermediate Chinese learner whose native language is not Chinese. While part of a series, these textbooks remain independent and systematic. Each one is accompanied by audio video tapes and a CD-Rom. After completing this course the learner should have a command of about 1000 basic words and 200 sentence patterns. The course includes over 3000 commonly used sentence patterns for daily communication. Each volume contains 10 lessons in three parts with the following contents: examples of usage, new words & phrases, texts, notes, exercises, a glimpse of modern Chinese culture, and writing demonstration. Parts one and two introduce new language items practice, and part three has reviews and exercises.
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CHINESE MADE EASY
Chinese Made Easy adopts a new approach to teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. It is designed for students taking the SAT II / AP-Chinese Examinations, IB Chinese Exam, HSK , or for those students who are starting to learn Chinese on their own. This method has five levels with textbooks and CDs, workbooks and teacher's guides. After completing the series, learners will have acquired a vocabulary of approximately 1,700 Chinese characters and several thousand phrases. This course features task-based learning coupled with a focus on form and function. Textbooks are in full color and include both simplified and traditional Chinese characters on vocabulary lists.
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Everyday Chinese Traditional
Everyday Chinese provides learners with texts in modern standard Chinese, along with a variety of exercises in phonetics, grammar, contextual meaning, and usage to help them improve their skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. This series includes: Textbook, Student's Workbook, Teacher's Manual, CD-ROM, Cassette Tapes and CDs for Textbook and Student's Workbook, Video, and Character Guide. Both traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese editions are available, please contact us for prices if you are interested in the simplified edition.
NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READERS
The long-awaited revised edition of the popular Practical Chinese Reader series is finally available! This completely new series, which will encompass six volumes and 70 lessons when completed, takes the student from an absolute beginning to an intermediate level, and equals approximately 3 years of higher_level classroom instruction. The text follows the life and story of Ding Libo and other international students as they learn contemporary Mandarin, Chinese culture and society. A well respected method which emphasizes the basic skills of reading, writing (simplified characters), speaking, and listening, it also contains supplementary exercises, many illustrations, charts, and is in a larger 8 x 11 format.
CHI6786 CHINESE CHARACTER FLASHCARDS $32.95
ISBN:9780835126786
One of the best methods for memorizing characters, these flashcards of the 888 most-used Chinese characters contain an up-to-date and thorough vocabulary list that includes internet, business and daily usage terms. Each two-sided card contains the character on one side and pinyin, tone mark, English translation and related phrases on the other.
CHI2617 CHINESE SAT II SAMPLE TESTS VOLUME 2 $24.95
College Board 134 pp Softcover with CD ISBN:9780979182617
Compiled by the Association of Northern California Chinese schools, this new study guide includes sample tests and tips on how to score high on the SAT II Subject test in Chinese. It greatly expands on volume 1. Each book includes a free audio CD and new questions that test grammar, reading and listening comprehension.
CHI0001 MOST COMMON CHINESE RADICALS $19.95
Zhang Pengpeng 147pp Softcover ISBN:9787800525766
This is an innovative new text using a modular approach to learning Chinese. The concentrated training in character learning will enable students to enter into the reading stage in a short time and taste the satisfaction and enjoyment of fluent comprehension of Chinese.
CHI0002 RAPID LITERACY IN CHINESE $19.95
Zhang Pengpeng 136 pp Softcover ISBN:9787800526954
The rich content of culture and art embodied in Chinese characters attract students in this Radicals book. Rather than being viewed as stumbling blocks they have often been considered, radicals become magnets drawing the students step by step to the innermost charm of the Chinese language and fluency in reading.
CHI9030 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LEARNING CHINESE CHARACTERS CD-ROM $18.95
Da Shiping ISBN:9787900689030
This multimedia CD-ROM is based on the textbook "Building Blocks for Learning Chinese Characters". Written by Chinese teaching experts from China and the United States and international schools in Beijing and Shanghai, it features a unique teaching method that makes it easy to give guidance and instruction to students mastering the language. Many of the Chinese characters that the students have learned reappear in the rhythmical texts which helps them to master them in a short time.
CHI5773 INTENSIVE SPOKEN CHINESE $12.95
Zhang Pengpeng 166pp Softcover ISBN:9787800525773
An intensive course in spoken Chinese, this volume teaches tones, vocabulary, and sentences using pinyin only. It includes 40 lessons, teaching about 1000 words and has many grammar notes.
CHI0009 AUDIO TAPES ISBN:9782020010009 $14.95
TUT7158 SPEAK CHINESE TODAY $14.95
Beverly Hong, Zhu Bingyao ISBN:9780804817158
Speak Chinese Today is a complete ungraded course in the Beijing dialect of modern spoken Chinese. Sometimes referred to as Mandarin in the West, this dialect is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. The text was designed especially so that it could be used by those studying Chinese on their own as well as in the classroom, and by beginning students as well as intermediate speakers of the language.
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