John De Francis Boeken

Describes some of the concepts underlying the Chinese language and writing system, and gives the author's position on a number of ideas about the language.

This text presents dialogues on everyday topics together with analysis of anticipated points of difficulty for the student and numerous sentences illustrating the usage of all new words and grammar. "Intermediate Chinese" has a number of unique features, chief among them is that the dialogues were first recorded and then transcribed and edited. This has resulted in livelier conversational material than is generally found in textbooks.

In this parallel character version of Intermediate Chinese , dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Intermediate Chinese offers in English and in pinyin romanization of Mandarin.Published for Seton Hall University

Accompanying coursebooks edited by Erin Quirk and Tanying Dong. Includes Essential Chinese (250 p.), Intermediate Chinese (362 p.), Advanced Chinese (300 p.), and Complete guide to Chinese characters (83 p.).