Chinese Language. Self-Study Guide

This self-study guide is designed for those who are learning the Chinese language independently. It helps develop the speaking skills necessary for communication and reading simple literature, and to master the basics of grammar: the lessons of the self-study guide familiarize with the grammatical features of the language and commonly used conversational vocabulary. Once you master it, you can easily handle any situation in direct communication with the residents of China. To quickly memorize common speech constructs, carefully read the dialogues and the supplementary lexical material, which is accompanied by transliteration (the thematic list is provided in the table of contents). In each lesson of the self-study guide, you will find descriptions of lexical-grammatical categories of parts of speech, exercises for memorizing the studied material, and texts using active speech structures. To check completed exercises, answer keys for each lesson are provided at the end of the book. The lessons of the self-study guide are supplemented with a dictionary that can be used to translate unfamiliar words encountered in the exercises. The book also contains information of a geographical nature, which will undoubtedly be useful during a trip to China.