Speed Up Your Chinese: Strategies to Avoid Common Errors
ISBN: 9780203100981
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Language & Literature; Language Teaching & Learning; Languages of Asia;

Speed up your Chinese is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the common errors that English-speaking learners of Chinese repeatedly make.

The book brings together these common errors to offer a valuable insight into the differences between English and Chinese and to reveal the inner workings of the latter allowing students to enhance their understanding and mastery of the Chinese language.

Key features:

organizes basic principles of Mandarin grammar into coherent categories. learner-oriented and problem-solving approach analysis approximately 150 commonly made errors. highlights and explains differences between Mandarin and English mnemonic devises provide vital learning strategies exercises with full answer key to reinforce learning examples in traditional characters provided in the appendix.

Speed up your Chinese is the ideal reference for all learners of Chinese.


Shin Yong Robson is Adjunct Associate Professor of modern languages and literatures at Beloit College, USA.
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