Chinese Grammar Book for English Speakers - Learn Mandarin Easily | Study Guide for Beginners & Advanced Learners | Perfect for Self-Study, Classroom & Travel
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A Chinese Grammar for English Speakers offers a systematic presentation and careful explanations of Chinese grammar, including the use of punctuation and copious amounts of cultural and historical information about the Chinese language. One unique feature of this grammar is its comparative approach: it explicates and compares Chinese grammar with that of English and points out the areas of differences and similarities, thus making the Chinese language more accessible to English learners. Another distinguishing feature of this grammar is its basis in praxis rather than theory; it is user-friendly and avoids jargon. It may serve as both a reference grammar and a pedagogical grammar and provides a wealth of illustrative sentences with pinyin and English translations along with a wide range of vocabulary. It presents grammar from the broad spectrum of humanities rather than from a single, isolated discipline or via a long list of dry rules.
Customer Reviews
I expect that I will be using this book a lot in my Chinese self-study. I bought it partly because of a favorable review in the February 2014 issue of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, and I am not disappointed. That review mentioned one weakness: the lack of pinyin for some of the characters. It is a puzzling omission that creates more work to look up the pinyin. I also suggest ignoring the pronunciation tips in Appendix III. Maybe the authors felt compelled to include something about pronunciation, but you will get better guidance from Daniel Kane's "The Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage," allsetlearning.com, yoyochinese.com and Hana Triskova's "Are the Mandarin retroflex initial consonants really retroflex? Are the palatals really palatal?...The notes on terminology," Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, September 2008.
