Practical Audio-Visual Chinese 5 2nd Edition (Book+mp3)

by National Taiwan Normal University／Mandarin Training Center

Level Basic Category Chinese Learning Textbooks for Adults Description The Practical Audio-Visual Chinese 2nd edition has been developed by the Ministry of Education of ROC, updated from “Practical Audio-Visual Chinese”, edited and written by the Editing and Compiling Committee of National Taiwan Normal University. The new version comprises a large-scale revision with regard to content, issue, lexicon, and up to date ways and practices. Meanwhile, the five major objectives of teaching this second language are designed to echo international Chinese teaching trends. These are incorporated within the teaching materials so that learning Chinese should no longer so difficult. It is thus considered to be the benchmark and practical learning material for domestic and overseas Chinese. Learners using this book can acquire language skills in modern Chinese, from listening and speaking to reading and writing. The book is found in 5 volumes, including, teacher’s manual, student textbooks, student’s workbook as well as a supplementary phonetics CD (MP3). The second volume is found in 13 lessons, and in continuation from volume of practice day-to-day wording it would help the students to express themselves with natural and lively language skills. Each lesson includes Dialogue, Pinyin, MPS, English translation, Narration, Vocabulary (and usage), Syntax practice, Application activities, Notes. After completing this text, learners should have learned approximately 625 Chinese characters, 1250vocabulary words and 119grammatical patterns.

333 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a dramatic step up in difficulty from book 4. Rather than dialogues, the book focuses on longer narratives grappling with larger social issues, from the impacts of divorce on home life to how to make learning a lifelong process.

There is also much more of an emphasis on using Chinese to learn Chinese. Each lesson has two narratives, but new vocabulary words are only pointed out to you in the first one. The second narrative throws a ton of brand-new characters at you without warning, and it's up to you to simply figure these words out yourself. The vocabulary they use is often old-fashioned or filled with jargon, because it's meant to express written Chinese more than informal spoken Chinese.

I would highly recommend using these books largely for listening and speaking practice, since the massive amount of characters makes reading retention difficult.