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This first book of the Speak Cantonese series continues an introduction to standard Cantonese dialect. It uses pinyin romanization and emphasizes the development of vocabulary.

This book completes the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book Three and is designed to bring the student to the 1300 character recognition level, in both traditional and simplified forms. After Book Four, the student will be prepared to start reading Chinese newspapers, periodicals, or literature.

This book continues the Written Standard Chinese series. It resumes from the end of Book Three and is designed to build vocabulary and bring the student past the 1000 character recognition level. Its content focuses on Chinese history and culture, as well as certain aspects of Sino-Western cultural interaction. It uses both traditional and simplified forms, and pinyin romanization.

This second book of the Speak Cantonese series continues an introduction to standard Cantonese dialect. It uses pinyin romanization and emphasizes the development of vocabulary.

The STANDARD CHINESE series of elementary and intermediate Chinese language texts, developed at Yale and used at Yale as well as other places for many years, includes a group of texts for spoken Chinses, a separate series for reading and writing, and in addition, a companion series of workbooks. The entire series is supported by audio tape programs available separately. Please write the publisher for a free catalog. The series utilizes Hanyu Pinyin transcription system and includes practice materials in both forms of the Chinese character ('traditional' and simplified).

The STANDARD CHINESE series of elementary and intermediate Chinese language texts has been developed at Yale University by Parker Po-fei Huang and Hugh M. Stimson. These texts employ PINYIN romantization, emphasize natural dialogue, offer full explanations of grammar, introduce a generous, modern adult vocabulary, include both simplified and unsimplified forms of the character, and are equipped with an accompanying audio tape series. The series is "two track," that is, there is a spoken language series and an accompanying written language series. Each volume in the series is also supported by student workbooks and there is a character flash card set also available. The series is presently being used at Yale and at many other college and high school Chinese language programs.

This second book of the Spoken Standard Chinese series completes the presentation of the major grammatical patterns of mdoern Mandarin and introduces an additional 700 words. Book Two uses pinyin romanization. An accompanying audio program is available.

Speak Cantonese, Book One, is tone of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major "dialects" of Chinese. As appropriate for a test of its kind, it is entirely in romanization. In response to many requests for a character version of the romanized text, the present volume has been printed. It is a word by word, faithful transcription of the entire content of the "parent" volume in traditional characters. No romanization is used in this text.

Written with the two-fold purpose of increasing proficiency in the language and affording an insight into Chinese civilization, this unusual book has lectures on such varied subjects as the people and culture of China, the geographical environment, the history, traditional and present government, the traditional agricultural economy, contemporary agriculture and industry, and Chinese literature, language, and philosophy. Each of the twenty lectures is divided into six parts: vocabulary, romanized version of the lecture, character version, phrases and sentences for translation from Chinese to English and from English to Chinese, and questions. The book introduces approximately 1,070 vocabulary items, all in the Yale romanization, each lecture averaging 55 new items carefully woven in with the old ones in the phrases and sentences for translation. There are two kinds of questions: those based on the text and those leading to a general discussion of Chinese culture.Prepared under contract with the U.S. Office of Education, the book has been treated in classrooms since 1963, Two volumes. Yale Linguistic Series.Mr. Huang is an instructor at the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, and the collaborators were also at Yale during preparation of the book.

Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation. This volume is the last of the Speak Cantonese series. It emphasizes introducing more idiomatic expressions heard in daily-life situations- a chat in a teahouse, an argument on a bus, a skit broadcast on the radio, etc.