Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials. Cornelius C. Kubler

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      CORNELIUS C. KUBLER & JERLING GUO KUBLER

      TUTTLE Publishing

       Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore

      The Tuttle Story: “Books to Span the East and West”

      Most people are very surprised to learn that the world’s largest publisher of books on Asia had its beginnings in the tiny American state of Vermont. The company’s founder, Charles E. Tuttle, belonged to a New England family steeped in publishing. And his first love was naturally books—especially old and rare editions.

      Immediately after WW II, serving in Tokyo under General Douglas MacArthur, Tuttle was tasked with reviving the Japanese publishing industry, and founded the Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company, which still thrives today as one of the world’s leading independent publishers.

      Though a westerner, Charles was hugely instrumental in bringing knowledge of Japan and Asia to a world hungry for information about the East. By the time of his death in 1993, Tuttle had published over 6,000 titles on Asian culture, history and art—a legacy honored by the Japanese emperor with the “Order of the Sacred Treasure,” the highest tribute Japan can bestow upon a non-Japanese.

      With a backlist of 1,500 books, Tuttle Publishing is as active today as at any time in its past—inspired by Charles’ core mission to publish fine books to span the East and West and provide a greater understanding of each.

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

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      Copyright © 2011 Cornelius C. Kubler and Jerling Guo Kubler

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      A Note to the Learner

      When it comes to learning Chinese, practice is essential, of course. This workbook offers you many options for practicing and polishing your written Chinese, and was designed to be used in conjunction with the textbook Basic Written Chinese as well as its companion volumes Basic Spoken Chinese and Basic Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials. However, this workbook may be used to hone reading and writing skills no matter which textbook or course you’re using to learn Chinese.

      These are some of the special features of Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials:

      • This workbook has been designed so it can be used either in a class with an instructor or by independent learners working on their own.

      • Both simplified and traditional characters are taught and practiced in the same volume. This means students can learn either or both kinds of characters without having to purchase another book; and instructors have the flexibility to teach a combined class where some students read and write one type of characters and other students the other type.

      • This workbook provides character practice sheets for the 288 characters introduced in Basic Written Chinese, with complete information on stroke order and direction for both the simplified and traditional forms of the characters.

      • A wide variety of reading and writing exercises is included, such as dictation, fill-in-the-blank, dialog completion, answering questions, map reading, converting written style to spoken style, identifying radicals and phonetics, and punctuating sentences.

      • Exercises are included that involve written tasks based on realia such as schedules, tables, calendars, photographs, and name cards.

      • English-Chinese translation exercises are provided for each unit.

      • There are printable flash cards for all the new characters and words, with Chinese characters on one side and Pinyin and English on the other.

      • Electronic flash cards are also available at a special website.

      • An included disc offers native-speaker audio for dictation practice.

      • The Basic Chinese Instructor’s Guide (available free from the publisher) contains detailed suggestions for using these materials as well as a wealth of exercises for use by instructors in class or by tutors during practice sessions.

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