Level: Beginner,Elementary ; Adults
New Concept Chinese, a series of Chinese textbooks for adults, is suitable for bothself-teaching and classroom teaching. Observing the principle of “makingChinese easier to learn”, this series presents practical, concise andinteresting teaching materials and employs easy, flexible and effectiveteaching methods so that students and teachers could learn and teach Chinese ina convenient and effective way.This is Textbook 1, targeted at adult Arabians who have acquiredsome basic Chinese. It teaches over 400 Chinese words frequently used inconversation, more than 300 Chinese characters and about 40 grammar points,encompassing the most common topics foreigners may encounter in their study,life and work, for instance, occupations, hobbies, foods, and means oftransportation. Upon finishing this volume, the students’ Chinese proficiencywill reach a level equivalent to the New HSK Level 2.
About the Author
Mr. Cui Yonghua is a research with a master’s degree.He has been engaged in the field of Chinese teaching and research since 1981.His research focuses on Chinese grammar, Chinese language teaching and Chineseinformation processing, and his publications include Classroom Techniques for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Teaching and Research of Chinese as aForeign Language (a collection of academic papers) and some textbookscoauthored with others, such as StandardChinese Course, Learning Chinese and Learn Chinese through Listening, Speakingand Watching. Mr. Cui has chaired and participate in many researchprojects, such as Radical Standards of GB13000.1Character Set for the Purpose of Information Processing, and has written a numberof academic papers, the representative ones being “Syntactic and SemanticIssues Related to Commendatory and Derogatory Adjectives”, “An Attempt inAnalyzing the Sentence Pattern ‘连……也……’” and “About theMethodology of TCFL as a Discipline”, etc.
