Encounters: Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 1, by Cynthia Y Ning,John S. Montanaro

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Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking chinese software that includes a dramatic sequence filmed solely in China. The program’s hugely communicative process immerses newcomers within the chinese and tradition via video episodes that without delay correspond to devices within the blend textbook-workbook. by way of combining a compelling tale line with a wealth of academic fabrics, Encounters weaves a tapestry of chinese and tradition wealthy in instructing and studying opportunities.

Encounters follows a delicately dependent and cumulative procedure. scholars development from listening and talking to the tougher abilities of studying and writing chinese language characters, construction grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation abilities alongside the way.

The Encounters application includes:

• Full-color scholar Books for introductory chinese language study

• Annotated Instructor’s versions with solution keys and recommended type activities

• personality Writing Workbooks associated on to the coed Book

• Ten hours of video fabrics, comprising dramatic episodes, cultural segments, and animations, all built-in with the coed Books

• a complete of two hundred mins of audio fabric, associated with the scholar Books, for listening and conversing practice

• an internet site, www.encounterschinese.com, offering a year’s loose entry to all audiovisual fabric of this system upon adoption