Mandarin Primer: An Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese

✍ Scribed by Yuen Ren Chao

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1948
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
CHAPTER II. PRONUNCIATION AND ROMANIZATION
CHAPTER III. GRAMMAR
CHAPTER IV. THE CHARACTERS
CHAPTER V. METHOD OF STUDY
PART TWO: FOUNDATION WORK
TO THE STUDENT
LESSON A. THE TONES
LESSON Β. DIFFICULT SOUNDS
LESSON C. THE SYSTEM OF SOUNDS
LESSON D. SYSTEM OF TONE SANDHI
PART THREE: THE LESSONS
TO THE STUDENT
LESSON 1. YOU, I, AND HE ‘FOUR MEN’
LESSON 2. THINGS
LESSON 3. SPEAKING CHINESE
LESSON 4. TELEPHONING
LESSON 5. UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, BACK, AND MIDDLE
LESSON 6. A SMOKE RING
LESSON 7. MR. CAN'T STOP TALKING
LESSON 8. ANTONYMS
LESSON 9. A GOOD MAN
LESSON 10. THE TAILLESS RAT
LESSON 11. WATCHING THE YEAR OUT
LESSON 12. A RESCUE AT SEA
LESSON 13. INQUIRING AFTER A SICK MAN
LESSON 14. CONVERSATION WITH THE DOCTOR
LESSON 15. WORLD GEOGRAPHY
LESSON 16. CHINESE GEOGRAPHY
LESSON 17. TALKING ABOUT INDUSCO
LESSON 18. TO THE MINSHENG WORKS
LESSON 19. RENTING A HOUSE
LESSON 20. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
LESSON 21. LISTENING AND LISTENING IN ACT I. DICTATION
LESSON 22. STUDYING
LESSON 23. THE VERNACULAR LITERATURE MOVEMENT
LESSON 24. AN AMERICAN MAKES A SPEECH
VOCABULARY AND INDEX
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS
SYNOPSIS OF TONAL SPELLING