Cornelius C. Kubler - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin

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Cornelius C. Kubler is Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies at Williams College, where he teaches Chinese and for many years chaired the Department of Asian Studies. He was formerly Chinese Language Training Supervisor and Chair of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, where he trained American diplomats in Chinese and other languages, and he served for six years as Principal of the American Institute in Taiwan Chinese Language & Area Studies School. Kubler, who has directed intensive Chinese language training programs in the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan, has been active in Chinese language test development and has authored or coauthored 15 books and over 50 articles on Chinese language pedagogy and linguistics.

Yang Wang , native to Beijing, is Senior Lecturer in Chinese at Brown University, where she teaches all levels of modern Chinese language. Before joining the Brown faculty, she taught Chinese at The Ohio State University and Williams College. She also taught for several years at the Middlebury College Summer Chinese School. Wang is interested in the implications of pragmatics in Chinese pedagogical practice, teaching materials development, and the integration of technology into the curriculum.

1. New Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries

Unit 11, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary

Grammar

IMPERATIVES CONSISTING OF VERB + STATIVE VERB + YDIN(R) : ki mn yidian drive more slowly

-LELE TO INDICATE TIME CONTINUING UP THROUGH PRESENT WITH TIME EXPRESSION AFTER VERB: T gngzule snge yu le. Shes been working for three months.

Unit 11, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary

Grammar

NEGATIVE TIME SPENT WITH TIME EXPRESSION BEFORE VERB: T snge yu mi gngzule. She hasnt been working for three months.

NUMBER OF TIMES WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME: Du ji ybn? One (bus) every how often?, Snfn zhng ybn. One (bus) every three minutes.

Unit 11, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary