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Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Textbook, Simplified Characters, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tao-chung Yao, Yuehua Lin, Nyan-ping Bi, Yea-fen Chen, Liangyan Ge, Jeffrey J. Hayden, Yaohua Shi, Xiaojun Wang
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui Company
List Price: $36.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 628588
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 0887274765
Dewey Decimal Number: 400
EAN: 9780887274763
ASIN: 0887274765
Publication Date: January 17, 2005
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Product Description
The Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Textbook is appropriate for beginning students at the high school or college level, or for anyone seeking to communicate effectively in Chinese wherever it is spoken. This acclaimed, best-selling series is successful because it "integrates" all four language skills--listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Integrated Chinese helps you understand how the Chinese language works grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real lifehow to understand it on the street, speak it on the telephone, read it in the newspaper, or write it in a report. The materials within Integrated Chineses set of textbooks, workbooks, character workbooks, and audio CDs are divided into sections of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Two types of exercises are used: traditional exercises (fill-in-the-blank, sentence completion, translation) to help learners build a solid grammatical foundation, and communication-oriented exercises (speaking drills, discussion topics, etc.) to prepare them to function in a Chinese language environment. Frequently, authentic materials written for native Chinese speakers and realia (newspaper clippings, signs, tickets, etc.) are used. Notes on language use and Chinese culture are found throughout the textbooks. Textbooks and workbooks are available in simplified or traditional characters.
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 Textbook is for use in a classroom December 2, 2007
Mr. H. Leperlier (Baile Atha Cliath, Eire)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There seems to be some misunderstanding with the previous review. The Integrated Chinese has been created mainly for use in class. Therefore the supplementary vocabulary is intended for creative activities in the classroom. Compared to many textbooks the characters are written quite large and in the new edition the printing is much better and clearer than in the original edition.
Students can buy the character workbook to practise characters if they still find the characters too small. In the real word, chinese characters are written very small and students are gently eased into recognizing smaller sizes gradually.
The CDs are crisp and clear.
It is explained in the introduction that, contrary to other editions, students can find at the end of the book the alternative characters for many original documents included in the main body of the textbook.
Nowadays traditional characters are coming back in use in advertising and "chic" business premises in China and in Taiwan some companies do use simplified characters as logos. Young people on both sides of the straits are used to reading both sets of characters. Consequently authors of good textbooks do no think they should deny the knowledge of both traditional and simplified characters when most young and middle-aged Chinese speakers use them in their everyday lives
 Poorly done or maybe rushed second edition July 13, 2006
Christopher Benoist
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I purchased the level 1 part 1 traditional book and was happy with that purchase. However, I wanted to start learning the simplified characters and had seen the level 1, part 1 simplified first edition and liked THAT, so thought that the second edition would be fine....WRONG. The biggest complaint is that in the level 1, part 2, unlike part 1, the characters are entirely too small so that not only is recognition difficult but trying to write them out is almost impossible for the more complicated characters requiring 5 or more strokes.
Another pet peeve is that some chapters have cartoons that follow the dialogues, which is fine, but the characters in the cartoons are TRADITIONAL and NOT Simplified....! WHat's up with that?!
Additionally, I purchased the 4 cd's that accompany the book at a cost of almost $50 and they are of extremely poor quality. You can tell that someone has overlaped the original recordings and on top of that, in many cases, the additions do not follow the BOOK! There is additional vocabulary on the cd's for some chapters, and the vocabulary is NOT in the book! They clearly either rushed this second edition or did a very poor editing job.
I say check out OTHER resources before thinking about this book.
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