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Mandarin Primer

An Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese
  • Yuen Ren Chao
Languages: English, Multiple languages
Published/Copyright: 1948
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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Contents

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  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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    CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

    3
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    CHAPTER II. PRONUNCIATION AND ROMANIZATION

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    CHAPTER III. GRAMMAR

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    CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTERS

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    CHAPTER V. METHOD OF STUDY

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  • PART TWO: FOUNDATION WORK
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    TO THE STUDENT

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    LESSON A. THE TONES

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    LESSON Β. DIFFICULT SOUNDS

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    LESSON C. THE SYSTEM OF SOUNDS

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    LESSON D. SYSTEM OF TONE SANDHI

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  • PART THREE: THE LESSONS
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    TO THE STUDENT

    116
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    LESSON 1. YOU, I, AND HE ‘FOUR MEN’

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    LESSON 2. THINGS

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    LESSON 3. SPEAKING CHINESE

    134
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    LESSON 4. TELEPHONING

    140
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    LESSON 5. UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, BACK, AND MIDDLE

    148
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    LESSON 6. A SMOKE RING

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    LESSON 7. MR. CAN'T STOP TALKING

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    LESSON 8. ANTONYMS

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    LESSON 9. A GOOD MAN

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    LESSON 10. THE TAILLESS RAT

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    LESSON 11. WATCHING THE YEAR OUT

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    LESSON 12. A RESCUE AT SEA

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    LESSON 13. INQUIRING AFTER A SICK MAN

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    LESSON 14. CONVERSATION WITH THE DOCTOR

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    LESSON 15. WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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    LESSON 16. CHINESE GEOGRAPHY

    230
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    LESSON 17. TALKING ABOUT INDUSCO

    236
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    LESSON 18. TO THE MINSHENG WORKS

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    LESSON 19. RENTING A HOUSE

    250
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    LESSON 20. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

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    LESSON 21. LISTENING AND LISTENING IN ACT I. DICTATION

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    LESSON 22. STUDYING

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    LESSON 23. THE VERNACULAR LITERATURE MOVEMENT

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    LESSON 24. AN AMERICAN MAKES A SPEECH

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    VOCABULARY AND INDEX

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    ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

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    SYNOPSIS OF TONAL SPELLING

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eBook published on:
October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674732889
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1948
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674732872
Edition:
Reprint 2013
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
336
Illustrations:
7
Tables:
11
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674732889
eBook ISBN: 9780674732889
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674732872
Keywords for this book
Chinese language -- Dialects -- Mandarin.
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education; Professional and scholarly;
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