Four experienced teachers of beginning Chinese have developed this
introductory textbook. A pilot edition has been tested widely in
classrooms and refined over a period of years. Among its salient
features are lessons that are lively, amusing, and relevant to
everyday life: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound
system of Chinese; extensive grammar notes, clearly presented, with
attention to mistakes English-speakers are likely to make; a
carefully sequenced character workbook embodying a new and
effective approach to the learning of Chinese characters; and
audiovisual reinforcement via a complete set of audiotapes and two
videotapes, one of which offers entertaining dramatizations of the
lesson dialogues.
"The Chinese Primer" is available in two versions, one using the
GR system of romanization, which employs different spellings
instead of diacritical marks for different tones, the other using
Pinyin romanization. The contents of the four volumes are as
follows: (1) Blue Book ["Lessons"]: Introduction; foundation work
on pronunciation; lesson dialogues in romanized Chinese and
English; appendices; glossary-index. (2) Red Book ["Notes and
Exercises"]: Vocabularies; grammar notes and culture notes keyed to
the lessons; exercises. (3) Yellow Book ["Character Workbook"]:
workbook. (4) Green Book ["Pinyin Character Text"]: Texts of the
lessons in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and
a Chinese introduction for teachers.
The first three volumes: Blue Book, Red Book, and Yellow Book
are sold as a set (GR Set or Pinyin Set). In addition, the GR Blue
Book ["Lessons"], GR Red Book ["Notes and Exercises"], and GR
Yellow Book ["Character Workbook"], alongwith the Pinyin Green Book
["Pinyin Character Text"], along with the Pinyin Green Book
["Pinyin Character Text"] are sold separately. The GR Audio and
video materials are available from the Chinese Linguistics Project
at Princeton University for use with this text. These supplementary
materials are not published by Princeton University Press. For
further information and prices, contact the Chinese Linguistics
Project, 231 Palmer Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
08544. (609-258-4269).
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