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Usage Advice: For international Chinese language teachers, undergraduates and graduates majoring in international Chinese language education, beginner-level/intermediate-level students of Chinese.

Explanations of Difficult Points in Learning Chinese Language as a Foreign Language is a reference book for foreigners learning Chinese with beginner-level or intermediate-level Chinese proficiency; it is also suitable for international Chinese language teachers and other native Chinese to help foreigners study Chinese.
The book collects more than 200 issues frequently encountered in Chinese teaching practice, which are of great interest to students. These issues are arranged in the order of vocabulary, grammar, phonetics and characters, focusing on distinguishing right from wrong, and distinguishing the similarities and differences. The language is easy to understand, aiming to let users not only know what it is, but also why it is.

To facilitate students to express, understand, and memorize, some entries use diagrams, tables, and formulas, etc. Most parts of the book are accompanied by exercises and provide answers for easy checking.

About the Author
Dr. Wu Zhongwei, Vice President and Professor of International Cultural Exchange School, Fudan University, is interested in modern Chinese grammar, TCFL and the compilation of textbooks. His works include more than 40 papers on Chinese grammar, teaching, research and textbook compilation of Chinese as a foreign language in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Teaching Chinese in the World, Chinese Language Learning, and monographs, such as A Thematic Study of Modern Chinese Sentences, Approaches in Teaching Grammar—The Theory and Practice of Grammar Teaching. He is now a member of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching and a consultant of Chinese textbooks compilation committee for secondary schools (2011 edition), Ministry of Education, Singapore.


1. Practicality
This book includes more than 200 issuesfrequently encountered in Chinese teaching practice, which are of greatinterest to students. The language is easy to understand, and diagrams, tables, and formulas are used forunderstanding, which help solve problems in teachers' teaching and students' learningprocess.
2. Scientificity
The entries inthis book are arranged in the order ofvocabulary, grammar, phonetics and characters, and the grammar part is arrangedin the order of morphology, syntax, and discourse expression, withcomprehensive content and reasonable arrangement. At the same time, each entry firstgives the "key points prompt", a rhetorical question, or a wrong sentence, tomake users think and verify, thus improving their self-learning abilities.
3. Operability
Most entries arefollowed by exercises to help users consolidate what they learned, thus havingmuch maneuverability.