Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the simplified and fully explicated language of the textbook to the unglossed world of Chinese print culture. The authors have expanded on the traditional film guide by embedding the transcript of the film's dialog in a narrative. Designed especially with the growing numbers of heritage speakers in mind, this expanded screenplay format models for students a more formal, abstract level of language, with an emphasis on techniques of sustained description and narration. The screenplay format also provides added flexibility: while designed for use in conjunction with the film, the text may also stand alone as a short story reader. This screenplay, based on a May Fourth Movement short story by Rou Shi, offers an engaging introduction to modern Chinese literature, articulating many of the significant cultural issues facing China to this day.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 2: Manon des Sources.

This series uses the integration of films to develop linguistic competencies through progressive acquisition of vocabulary and grammar structures. A variety of activities target the four communicative goals: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

In this companion volume to L'Italia verso il Duemila, acclaimed Italianist Ugo Skubikowski provides a glimpse into authentic Italian life through the presentation of twelve interviews with Italians. Intended as a text for students in second year university and beyond, Vite italiane brings together Italians from different regions and of differing age, class, and gender, to speak candidly about a wide range of experiences. Among the interviewees are a recent university graduate who describes the challenges posed by the Italian university, a widow who speaks of raising a young daughter as a single mother, a high school teacher who recalls her leftist political activism and defends her new, more moderate approach, and a restauranteur who shares his challenges and his dreams for his restaurant. These and many other fascinating interviews provide a compelling and varied portrait of Italy as experienced and retold by Italians themselves.

A book for Welsh learners, Entry Level (Mynediad), about Rhodri, who is a native Welsh speaker, and Lucy, his wife who has just started learning. -- Welsh Books Council