This audio-visual program is designed to allow high-intermediate level students of Chinese to "break through" the initial frustrations and seeming incomprehensibility of Mandarin TV news programs and allow them to increase their comprehension and enjoyment of this important form of mass communication. Based on authentic journalistic Chinese and supported by extensive examples and exercises, this course is appropriate for high school, college, or adult learners in government, business, journalism, and education. Chinese Breakthrough consists of 15 lessons divided into four units: Daily News and Current Affairs, Business and Economic News, Cultural Affairs, and Sports. Lesson content is based on authentic Mainland China television news broadcasts, available on the accompanying video cassette. The audio cassettes provide a separate listening component to the textbook and contain the introduction, vocabulary list, short dialogues, and questions in the textbook. The workbook contains exercises for listening comprehension, language practice, and discussion specifically related to the video broadcasts. An interactive CD-ROM incorporates material found on the audio and video cassettes with the course material in the textbook and workbooks. In simplified and traditional characters with pinyin. All components are sold separately.

Chinese Breakthrough: Learning Chinese through TV and Newspapers (Textbook)

Hong Gang Jin

De Bao Xu

John Berninghausen

Cheng & Tsui

Textbook and Workbook in one book.

China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course (Traditional & Simplified Characters)

James Hargett

Cheng & Tsui Company

Studying in China is a one-of-a-kind experience, and this new textbook and audio CD set helps students acquire communication skills to make their experience in China successful and fruitful. The topics and settings are drawn from the actual experiences of hundreds of students who studied abroad in China, and from professors who taught and lived with students in China. After working through Crossing Paths' authentic materials and task-based activities and exercises, students will have a much easier time dealing with the challenges of daily life in a foreign country. 
Texts for each lesson are based on real life conversations and language notes that clearly explain how to use new vocabulary, idioms, and grammar patterns. For advanced-beginner level students (second-year college Chinese), Crossing Paths may be followed by Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China, or used independently. Simplified, with explanations/examples in English and vocabulary examples in pinyin.

Crossing Paths

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Books by Hong Gang Jin

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Chinese Breakthrough: Learning Chinese through TV and Newspapers (Textbook)

China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course (Traditional & Simplified Characters)

Crossing Paths