China Books

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Complements the textbook Road: Chinese Conversation For Foreigners. This is an oral short-term training program focusing on daily communication. It covers more than 30 communicative functions and approximately 900 new words as well as more than 100 basic key points of language and explanations of daily words/phrases. This software contains multimedia teaching functions such as cartoon demonstrations, word searches, character tracing, interactive exercises, crystal clear pronunciation for every Chinese character, fast voice playback, and so on. A pinyin module and a mini-dictionary module will help learners to learn Chinese easily. (ISBN:9787900689122) (For this item please quote stock ID 26185) ISBN: 9787900689122

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Level: Age 5 to Adult: Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn Mandarin quickly. It's addictive, fun, and makes learning easy. Ideal for beginners, it has comprehensive topics which include first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, and time. It has immediate responses to every choice you make, you can compare yourself with native speakers using the record facility. Test yourself using the easy and hard quizzes plus a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress by keeping a check on your total score, and printing your own awards. Help is available at all times. You can also print your own dictionary for handy reference. (For this item please quote stock ID 3185) ISBN: 9781843520191

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A CD-ROM with 1000 common oral Chinese sentences covering 34 different dialogues: daily life, travelling, shopping, Chinese culture, customs, business and education. Recordings of each sentence with clear pronunciations of standard Mandarin and English are also available. The CD-ROM also provides bilingual explanations in Chinese-English, Chinese-Spanish, English-French and English-Spanish. Each dialogue has a brief video clip where learners can practice their listening, learn about Chinese culture and enjoy beautiful scenery. (For this item please quote stock ID 15820) ISBN: 9787900607676

This fantastic title combines pictures, text, and sound to make an interactive flash card system which parents and teachers can use to help in basic language teaching. Children can use this software to learn words, play games, and record their own words and sentences. There is spoken help from a terrifically talented animated tiger. Great graphics and addictive games make learning fun. (For this item please quote stock ID 15961) ISBN: 9781862211193

With over 3500 real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons, Chinese Level I, Personal Edition provides up to 250 hours of mastery instruction in Writing (Pinyin), Listening Comprehension, Reading and Speaking. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. Previews, exercises and tests accompany every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. Level I, Personal Edition provides instruction in such categories as: * Present, Past, Future * Professions and Activities * Family Relationships; People and Talking * Descriptive Adjectives; Comparative Nouns * Alone, Crowd, Friend * Directions: How Do I Get To . . . Chinese Level I, Personal Edition comes complete with an illustrated User's Guide and a Curriculum Text book. (For this item please quote stock ID 15966)

Chinese Level II, Personal Edition builds on the Level I material with up to 300 hours of accelerated study for intermediate learners. With over 4500 real-life images, video clips and phrases in 118 lessons, Level II, Personal Edition provides mastery instruction in all key language skills, leading to advanced proficiency. Previews, exercises and tests accompany every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. Chinese Level II, Personal Edition provides more advanced instruction in such categories as: * Measurement: Length, Weight, Volume, Temperature and Distance * More Advanced Grammatical Structures * Travel and Transactions at a Bank * Before and After in Time and Space * Political Geography * A Complete Reference Section of Commonly Used Terms Chinese Level II, Personal Edition comes complete with an illustrated User's Guide and a Curriculum Text book. (For this item please quote stock ID 15967)

Level: Age 5 to Adult: Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn Tibetan quickly. It's addictive, fun, and makes learning easy. Ideal for beginners, it has comprehensive topics which include first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, and time. It has immediate responses to every choice you make, you can compare yourself with native speakers using the record facility. Test yourself using the easy and hard quizzes plus a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress by keeping a check on your total score, and printing your own awards. Help is available at all times. You can also print your own dictionary for handy reference. (For this item please quote stock ID 16095)

Stage A is a basic introduction to Mandarin and is suitable for beginners and young children. The slightly more complex words, phrases and activities of Stage B further develop the skills learnt in Stage A. (For this item please quote stock ID 16227)

Ages 12-adult. From the makers of Vocabulary Builder and Talk Now! comes the next level in the series, World Talk. It's addictive, fun, and makes learning easy. Compete in a 'TV Quiz' against the computer or even a friend. Practise your language skills in ten different language games including; the lottery game, what did you say, sentence building, out to dinner, games about people, animals, directions and general conversation. World Talk also includes a recording studio where you can take the part of an actor and gain confidence in speaking the language. It also features six story type activities for you to practise dictation and comprehension at your own speed. (For this item please quote stock ID 17186) ISBN: 9780400602257

Ages 12-adult. From the makers of Vocabulary Builder and Talk Now! comes the next level in the series, World Talk. It's addictive, fun, and makes learning easy. Compete in a 'TV Quiz' against the computer or even a friend. Practise your language skills in ten different language games including; the lottery game, what did you say, sentence building, out to dinner, games about people, animals, directions and general conversation. World Talk also includes a recording studio where you can take the part of an actor and gain confidence in speaking the language. It also features six story type activities for you to practise dictation and comprehension at your own speed. (For this item please quote stock ID 22099) ISBN: 9780403800032

Parent User licence: if a school has an existing site-licence for Language Market, a parent of a child from that school has the ability to purchase a licence for this special price. Details of the school and the parent have to be supplied before the licence can be purchased. Stage A is a basic introduction to Mandarin and is suitable for beginners and young children. The slightly more complex words, phrases and activities of Stage B further develop the skills learnt in Stage A. (For this item please quote stock ID 23255)

Colourful images, fun animation and realistic audio material complement the learning in Zou ba!, a lively, interactive beginners? course for students of Chinese. Zou ba! is comprehensive and extensive. It can be used independently by learners or as the main component of a classroom program. Zou ba! is task-based and gives students a high degree of control over the pace of their learning. Each of the units in the three CD-ROMs begins with a comic style ?scenario? or ?feature? to introduce new language. Students are then given a task that reinforces and demonstrates their knowledge of new and learned language. Supporting the units is a dictionary of the vocabulary (including Hanzi stroke number), cultural information, photographs and a checklist for students to record progress. Teachers are provided with a detailed explanation of the learning sequence, a summary of each unit of work, printable worksheets for off-computer tasks, classroom management tips and merit certificate pro formas. Topics for Zou ba! Level 1 include: Airport, Eat up, Go shopping, Get it together, Meet the family, Keep fit, Spare time. (For this item please quote stock ID 23588) ISBN: 9780731382941

This fantastic title combines pictures, text, and sound to make an interactive flash card system which parents and teachers can use to help in basic language teaching. Children can use this software to learn words, play games, and record their own words and sentences. There is spoken help from a terrifically talented animated tiger. Great graphics and addictive games make learning fun. (For this item please quote stock ID 24034) ISBN: 9780000000002

The Most Comprehensive, Practical and the only Expandable Software for learning Conversational and Written Chinese. Use for home, travel, business and school. Comprehensive Topics Contains 36 topics and 146 sub-topics and a total of more than 5,000 sentences, covering a wide range of daily conversational Chinese for business, school, home, travel, etc. Features: >Pin-yin practice Familiarize you with the different combinations of consonants and vowels and their pronunciations. >Vocabulary, Sentence and Dialogue Exercise Learn to speak Chinese through standard Pin-Yin (Romanized Chinese) and increase your vocabulary through sentence and dialogue exercise. Easy-to-use record and playback function is provided. >Practical and Convenient Learning Standard Pin-yin notation is incorporated for each word and sentence to aid learning. Selected words, phrases, and sentences can be printed for practice when you are away from your PC. >Adjustable Voice Setting Reading speed is adjustable according to learning level. >Expandable Learning Content User can add/modify his/her own vocabulary, sentence, dialogue and topics to enhance the scope of learning. A great tool for Chinese language teacher. >English/Chinese Two-way Translation User can type any English (Chinese) sentence and translate to Chinese (English) along with its Pin-yin notation. >Built-in English/Chinese Dictionary An English/Chinese two-way dictionary with 150,000+words is provided. User can edit the dictionary content as he/she needs. >Mouse-point Translation Simply points your mouse to the line of the text or the word you wish to translate. Its translation and pinyin will be displayed instantaneously. (For this item please quote stock ID 27596)

Stage A is a basic introduction to Mandarin and is suitable for beginners and young children. The slightly more complex words, phrases and activities of Stage B further develop the skills learnt in Stage A. The Language Market has been developed in conjunction with experienced language teachers and experts and incorporates best practice in language teaching. As the program is self-paced it is ideal for independent learning as well as for small groups in multi-level classes. This means it can also be used as an effective motivational tool for slower learners as well as highly computer-literate learners. (For this item please quote stock ID 23120)

Level: Age 5 to Adult: Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn Cantonese quickly. It's addictive, fun, and makes learning easy. Ideal for beginners, it has comprehensive topics which include first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, and time. It has immediate responses to every choice you make, you can compare yourself with native speakers using the record facility. Test yourself using the easy and hard quizzes plus a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress by keeping a check on your total score, and printing your own awards. Help is available at all times. You can also print your own dictionary for handy reference. (For this item please quote stock ID 22096) ISBN: 9781843520481

Colourful images, fun animation and realistic audio material complement the learning in Zou ba!, a lively, interactive beginners? course for students of Chinese. Zou ba! is comprehensive and extensive. It can be used independently by learners or as the main component of a classroom program. Zou ba! is task-based and gives students a high degree of control over the pace of their learning. Each of the units in the three CD-ROMs begins with a comic style ?scenario? or ?feature? to introduce new language. Students are then given a task that reinforces and demonstrates their knowledge of new and learned language. Supporting the units is a dictionary of the vocabulary (including Hanzi stroke number), cultural information, photographs and a checklist for students to record progress. Teachers are provided with a detailed explanation of the learning sequence, a summary of each unit of work, printable worksheets for off-computer tasks, classroom management tips and merit certificate pro formas. Topics for Zou ba! Level 3 include: Good health, Around in circles, On holidays, A night out, Remember when, Impossible Mission. (For this item please quote stock ID 23591) ISBN: 9780731382965

Colourful images, fun animation and realistic audio material complement the learning in Zou ba!, a lively, interactive beginners? course for students of Chinese. Zou ba! is comprehensive and extensive. It can be used independently by learners or as the main component of a classroom program. Zou ba! is task-based and gives students a high degree of control over the pace of their learning. Each of the units in the three CD-ROMs begins with a comic style ?scenario? or ?feature? to introduce new language. Students are then given a task that reinforces and demonstrates their knowledge of new and learned language. Supporting the units is a dictionary of the vocabulary (including Hanzi stroke number), cultural information, photographs and a checklist for students to record progress. Teachers are provided with a detailed explanation of the learning sequence, a summary of each unit of work, printable worksheets for off-computer tasks, classroom management tips and merit certificate pro formas. Topics for Zou ba! Level 2 include: Celebrate, Out and about, Game, set and match, Move in, School days, All about them. (For this item please quote stock ID 23590) ISBN: 9780731382958

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China Album is designed for high school students and adult learners who are beginning the study of Chinese. Learning is organized into six practical themes to help students speak and understand in a wide range of situations. The themes establish the base from which to explore and consolidate vocabulary, language structures, pronunciation and cultural information. Features: >purpose designed video, audio, graphics and text resources to immerse you in Chinese language and culture > motivating activities and games to consolidate your learning > immediate feedback > a flexible structure which allows you to work progressively through the contents or set your own path of study > record keeping of achievments and progress > comprehensive learning resources including *twenty-four situational video dialogues with integrated vocabulary and grammar tools *seventy-six role plays with voice recording *eighteen computer games *twenty-four interactive photographs with listening quizzes *word games > a vocabulary of 1360 Chinese words (For this item please quote stock ID 15960) ISBN: 9780957760905

The CD-ROM provides articulation demonstration of pinyin with standard pronunciation, contains ample exercises in various forms, and has brief Chinese-English explanations. (For this item please quote stock ID 31256) ISBN: 9787900689016

Colloquial Chinese CD-ROM is ideal if you are a beginner or have a basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. This exciting, easy-to-use multimedia language course offers instant access to 14 interactive lessons covering a range of everyday travel, business and leisure situations. You control the pace of your own learning using: * varied, progressive interactive exercises (including a unique focus on characters), complete with scoring and answers * dialogues from native speakers * a record and play-back facility to test and improve your pronunciation * back-up material including reference grammar and transcripts * a vocabulary list in both pinyin and characters for quick look-up. The Colloquial Chinese CD-ROM provides everything you need to learn Chinese quickly and effectively. All you need is a basic knowledge of Windows - and learning has never been such fun. This pack contains a multimedia CD-ROM. Audio CD, tape and book versions of this course are also available from CHINA BOOKS. (For this item please quote stock ID 8711) ISBN: 9780415142915

Tai Hao Le! (Wonderful!) is an Australian CD-ROM based teaching program for Chinese. It is suitable for a wide age range of beginners, including middle and upper primary and secondary students, as well as adult learners. It can be used in either self-guided or teacher-led language courses. This colourful multimedia resource uses text, audio and visual elements, including animations, graphics and movies, to teach and revise Chinese. Students learn a comprehensive range of sentence structures and associated vocabulary within an animated, fun and educationally sound language-learning environment. The CD-ROM comprises * 96 learning and assessment activities, which progressively introduce new sentence structures and vocabulary while building on the previously learnt language * a custom dictionary, Chinese-English and English-Chinese, which contains all the language found on the CD-ROM, in both pinyin and Chinese characters * a film strip in most learning activities which contains a short movie of native speakers using some of the new language * a teacher’s section, with password access, which tracks the students’ progress through the CD-ROM and which can be printed as a tabular report. Tai Hao Le! complements the Zhongguotong series of teacher and student language resources. Tai Hao Le! is designed to teach and review language for Stages A, B and 2 of the Australian Language Levels Guidelines (ALL). (For this item please quote stock ID 3162) ISBN: 9781863667357