Welcome!

Welcome to the companion website for the second edition of Modern Mandarin Chinese: The Routledge Course.

The companion website offers a wealth of comprehensive additional resources, with valuable supporting material for both students and instructors.

These resources include:

• An extensive collection of audio clips to facilitate listening and pronunciation practice.
• Interactive quiz questions for each chapter to consolidate learning.
• Downloadable exercises on vocabulary, dialogue, structure drills and more.
• Downloadable character sheets to allow students to practise writing Chinese characters.
• Structure drill scripts and answer keys for instructor use.

About the book:

Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing a strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills.

Each level of the course consists of a textbook and workbook in simplified Chinese. A free companion website provides all the audio for the course with a broad range of interactive exercises and additional resources for students’ self-study, along with a comprehensive instructor’s guide with teaching tips, assessment and homework material and a full answer key.

Key changes to this new edition:

• An increased number of characters introduced overall. Around 300 characters are introduced in level 1 of this second edition, and an additional 200 characters are introduced in level 2.
• Additional exercises in the workbooks and online to support the expanded number of characters incorporated into the textbooks.
• New cross-references between the textbooks, workbooks and companion website facilitate using all the resources in an integrated manner.
• Greatly enhanced and re-designed website.

Retaining its focus on communicative skills and the long-term retention of characters, the text is presented in simplified characters and pinyin from the outset with a gradual and phased removal of pinyin as specific characters are introduced and learnt. This unique approach allows students to benefit from the support of pinyin in the initial stages as they begin speaking while ensuring they are guided and supported towards reading only in characters.

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