Working Mandarin for Beginners (Working Languages) (Book & CD-ROM)

Major- Twenty-four lessons, including five review lessons.- Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding.- Lessons cover important basics, such as introductions and greetings, counting, reserving a hotel room, taking public transportation, and asking for directions.- Lessons cover business tasks' such as coordinating and conducting meetings, selling products, and negotiating agreements--all in Chinese.- Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, language points, cultural points, pronunciation drills, and interactive homework.- Course concludes with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of business study.- Pinyin is used throughout so students can start speaking Mandarin immediately.- Includes some basic lessons in the formation of Chinese characters.- Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com).Teacher's Edition- Includes a CD-ROM with all MP3 tracks of dialogues, vocabulary, and audio exercises found on the students' disk.- CD-ROM also provides quizzes and exams (including necessary audio), approximately 500 supplementary PowerPoint slides for classroom use, and creative guidance for conversation practice, mini-immersions, and skits.Online Teaching Features At Quia.Com- Instructor-managed class activities and exercises.- Monitoring of student progress.- Customized grading options online.- Students can complete exercises online, submit their answers electronically to their instructor, and receive automatic feedback.-Teachers can also use Quia templates to build their own exercises or use exercises developed by other instructors to provide added help for students.- Motivated self-directed learners can also access the self-grading online exercise at Quia.com (no instructor feedback will be provided).