The Ni Hao series is a complete Chinese language course appropriate for beginning students in the upper primary grades to senior high school levels. The series introduces Chinese language and culture while teaching communication in both spoken and written Chinese. Practical objectives enable students to use Chinese in the classroom, on the playground, and within the local community. The first textbook stresses learning daily language in various topics and settings. Text is reinforced through rich illustrations and Characters are used throughout the text to enhance the students' reading and writing abilities. Pinyin only acts as a guide to pronunciation. Each unit of the text in this book includes the following subsections: Illustrated texts, Learn the sentences, New words and expressions, Write the characters, Supplementary words, and Something to know. Choose between Simplified and traditional Chinese character editions. Topics include asking the date/ birthdays, time/daily routing, position of things etc, clothes/do they fit, shopping, visiting or inviting friends, making phone calls, eating at a restaurant, and the weather. Introduces 440 words and how to write 140 characters.
What's new in the 3rd Edition?
- A new section "About Pinyin and characters" betters students' knowledge on pinyin rules and the origin of Chinese characters.
- Two new review lessons were added for each end-semester sum up.
Offers a smoother transition from the introductory level to this elementary level, with stronger focus on the important sentence structure, but using a shorter vocabulary list.
- The language introduced is more frequently and functionally repeated.
- Settings and illustrations are closely related to students' daily life and are spiced with humor to lift students' learning spirit. Comics were also added to reinforce learning.
In the Workbook, exercises are now catered for individual sections in each lesson. New items introduced in each section are grouped for easy learning and handy referral.
- In addition to exercises, each lesson includes both the listening and reading tasks for summative learning and testing. The settings of these tasks often poke fun at teenagers to incur laughter.
- Includes free download of the textbook version of the Ni Hao Language Lab with purchase of the textbook.
Ni Hao now has additional downloads available for students:
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By Shumang Fredlein and Paul Fredlein, Paperback, Simplified or Traditional Chinese Characters, Pinyin and English, 138 pages, 11''x8.3"
