http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks (still in the process of migrating to WordPress... generic theme will change soon) Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:15:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Edited by 徐子亮 (Shanghai Haiwen Audio-Video Publishers, 2005) Review by: John Pasden Make no mistake -- this new Shanghainese textbook's audience is foreigners. Although there are some Chinese instructions or translations here or there, the overall impression is of devotion to the English-speaking foreigner. This is not a Mandarin textbook, and ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/shanghai-dialect-for-foreigners Edited by 陈阿宝 (海南出版社, 2005) Review by: John Pasden This brand new Shanghainese textbook sets its goals very high, and it delivers on certain levels. According to the foreword, "learners can use this book to learn either just Mandarin Chinese or Shanghai dialect, or both Mandarin and Shanghai dialect simultaneously." Indeed, all ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/a-chinese-two-channel-contrastive-textbook-of-mandarin-and-shanghai-dialect Edited by 叶盼月 (上海交通大学出版社, 1994) Review by: John Pasden Xue Shuo Shanghai-hua is one of the best textbooks on Shanghainese out there, from a linguist's point of view. Recognizing the need to distance Shanghainese pronunciation from Mandarin pronunciation, it has always used IPA as a pronunciation guide, and it is the ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/xue_shuo_shanghaihua Edited by 顾月云 (上海译文出版社, 2005) Review by: John Pasden According to the preface, "most Chinese textbooks are intended for students studying full-time, not for the working foreigners. My Chinese Classroom has solved that problem by providing a study program specifically designed for working foreigners in China." Its claim of being ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/my-chinese-classroom both by 王小宁, 侯子玮 (新世界出版社, 2002) Review by: Roddy Published by the 新世界出版社, one is called HSK 听力关键词 (ISBN 7-80005-696-1) and the other HSK 听力惯用词 (7-80005-695-3) I found these books really good - there's a lot of colloquial / idiomatic stuff you just don't get in a lot of the textbooks around. Opening ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/two-hsk-prep-books by 中国社会科学院语言研究所词典编辑室 (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2003) Review by: Roddy Basically, they've taken the 现代汉语词典, which is a pure Chinese-Chinese dictionary, translated the entries into English, and called it the 现代汉语词典(英汉双语版), or Contemporary Chinese Dictionary Chinese-English edition. So basically, what you have is a Chinese-Chinese dictionary AND a Chinese-English dictionary, ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/the-contemporary-chinese-dictionary by 李铭起 (BCLU Press, 1999-2000) Review by: Roddy There are nine books in the 汉语听力 course, three each at elementary, intermediate and advanced. I've used about five of them, from Elementary 3 onwards.\r\n\r\nI've always been really impressed by them because: They're really well designed - difficult vocab is pre-taught, there's a ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/hanyu-tingli-series Edited by Cao Shan (New World Press, 2000) Review by: John Pasden If you suspected that this book is dry because of the title, you were right on the mark. Dry doesn't necessarily mean bad, though. I mean, come on, the book is all about grammar. And I do mean all about ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/speaking-chinese-300-grammatical-points by Tao-chung Yao and Yuehua Liu (Cheng & Tsui Company, 1997) Review by: Prince Roy A View From the TrenchesI am a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado and have used the Integrated Chinese textbook series for the past two years. I have taught both first and second year Chinese ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/integrated-chinese-levels-1-2 by Zhou Yimin & James J. Wang (China Books & Periodicals, Inc., 1995) Review by: John Pasden This book is not nearly as good as Outrageous Chinese, even though the author of Outrageous Chinese co-athored this one. For one thing, it's not readable. The words in this book are presented in alphabetical ... http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/studybooks/mutant-mandarin-a-guide-to-new-chinese-slang