Speak and Read Chinese: Fun Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Chinese Words and Their Tones

by Larry Herzberg

Overview

From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese, a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember pinyin, tones, and characters of essential Chinese words.

Students and teachers rate pinyin, tones, and characters as some of the most difficult aspects of learning Chinese. This book addresses this issue by organizing easy memorization tricks for the three hundred most basic characters in popular textbook series like Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader.

Larry Herzberg did his Master's and PhD work in Chinese Language and Literature at Indiana University. He founded Chinese-language programs at two colleges and has been teaching for thirty years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611720310
Publisher:	Stone Bridge Press
Publication date:	12/20/2016
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Larry Herzberg: Larry Herzberg studied Chinese for five years at Vanderbilt University before doing his Master's and Ph.D. work in Chinese Language and Literature at Indiana University. In 1980 he founded the Chinese Language Program at Albion College and then did the same at Calvin College in 1984. For the past three decades he has taught the Chinese language at the college level.