Meeting in China-Practical Chinese: Reading & Writing

This book is a reading and writing Chinese textbook aiming at teaching Chinese to foreign learners who have just begun learning it. It consists of thirty lessons. Each lesson comprises new words, texts, structural analyses of Chinese characters, exercises, etc. This book aims at developing the learners reading and writing abilities in Chinese. The reading skills consist of learning to read Chinese characters, words, sentences and phrases. With two texts in each lesson, it has a large number of practices to ensure the amount of reading contents and the recurrence of vocabulary. The language teaching materials are also natural, practical and interesting. The writing skill part focuses on developing the students ability to write Chinese characters. The book adopts the teaching method of character components to help the learners overcome the difficulties in writing Chinese characters. It analyzes all the structures that form the new words in this book. By using each Chinese character component as a unit, it enables the learners to remember the character components in an overall way, and master the rules of the characters structures. To meet the learners requirements on learning Chinese characters, it illustrates the strokes and stroke order of every character component.