Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials

Take your mastery of Mandarin Chinese to the next level with this comprehensive workbook and CD!

Learning to speak Mandarin Chinese requires many hours of practice — there's just no way around it! But by using this one-of-a-kind practice guide, together with whatever Chinese language-learning book or program you're already involved with, you can dramatically improve your ability to speak and comprehend spoken Chinese and Chinese grammar.

This book presents a wealth of tested and proven practice activities-including approximately 16 hours of audio recordings and over 200 pages of drills and exercises — to help you polish your spoken Chinese to a high intermediate-level. It can be used successfully with any intermediate-level Chinese language learning book (such as Intermediate Spoken Chinese) and enables you to quickly move from beginner to intermediate level proficiency in the language.

It's also beneficial for people with plans to travel to China, or who wish to brush up and review their spoken Chinese in preparation for an exam.

Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials includes hundreds of activities that have been carefully designed to perfect and reinforce each aspect of your Chinese speaking and comprehension ability:

• Pronunciation exercises
• Vocabulary and grammar summaries
• Substitution drills
• Transformation and response drills
• Role play and listening comprehension exercises
• Dictation exercises
• Translation exercises