Total Mandarin Chinese audio CD (Audio book)

Zusatztext "Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning" Informationen zum Autor Dr Harold Goodman is a physician and surgeon! who had Michel Thomas as his teacher for nearly ten years. During this time Michel Thomas's goal was not to teach Dr Goodman a specific language (though he did instruct him in two of the languages he taught) but to train him to understand his method of teaching - which he then used to teach others! with great success. Dr Goodman teaches and practises in the United States. Klappentext Join millions of people who have dramatically improved their language skills thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method! perfected over fifty years by celebrated linguist Michel Thomas. Experience significant results in a remarkably short period of time - without books! drills! memorizing! or homework. Guaranteed success, incredible progress and absolute confidence in Mandarin Chinese. Zusammenfassung Join millions of people who have dramatically improved their language skills thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method! perfected over fifty years by celebrated linguist Michel Thomas. Experience significant results in a remarkably short period of time - without books! drills! memorizing! or homework. Inhaltsverzeichnis : Introduction. How to use this course. Background to Chinese languages. : Tones in Mandarin : The form of the verb in Chinese languages doesn't change: e.g. shì ('to be') also means 'am! are! is! was! will be' : wo = 'I' and also 'me': form of pronoun doesn't change in Mandarin : There is no word for 'a' or 'an' : ni = 'you' : ta = 'he! him! she! her! it' : Words for nationalities : Add men to pronouns ('I! me' etc.) to form plural (more than one): women = 'we! us ' etc. : ma = question marker! to change a statement into a question' Goes at the end of the statement. : ne added to mean 'how about ...?' : Adjectives! such as 'busy'! in Mandarin! are also verbs: máng means 'to be busy' : To form a negative! put bù = 'no! not' in front of the verb : Add hen to fulfil the two-syllable meter rule (also means 'very') : Greetings ni hao and ni hao ma ('hello' = 'you good'! 'how are you' = 'you good (question)' : In Chinese the character/word has the same form for both individual and plural form : In front of another falling-tone word! bù (falling tone) becomes bú (rising tone)('trampoline' rule) : Question with a question word! such as 'why?' : Use zài to emphasize 'now! at this very moment' : Word order in Chinese: who-when-what is happening : xiang = 'would like to' : néng = 'can' : Add de to pronouns 'I' etc. to form 'my! mine' etc.: wode : Words for languages : xiang = 'would like to' in Mandarin can only be followed by a verb : Word order in Chinese: who-when-how-what is happening : Demonstrative pronouns 'this' and 'that' : Answering 'yes' and 'no' without repeating the verb in the question: shì = 'is'! bù = 'not' : Chinese construction 'too...to do' is 'too...no can do' : Question word 'what?' : How to answer 'What is this?'! and 'What is that?' : shuo = 'to speak! say' : huì = 'to be able to' : Question word 'who?' Use of universal 'classifier' gè in 'this book' (zhè ge shu)! 'that man' (nà ge rén);: 'a! an! one' ( : yí ge) : zài (= 'at' etc.) in Chinese can be used as and functions as a verb! so zài jia = 'to be at home' : Question word 'where?' : zhù (zài) = 'live! stay' : Prepositions ('on' etc.) go after the noun in Mandarin: '[to be] at the table on' : you = 'to have! I have! he has! I had' etc. : Negative of 'to hav...

Product details

• Authors: Harold Goodman, Michael Thomas, Michel Thomas
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 26.08.2011
• EAN: 9781444138030
• ISBN: 978-1-4441-3803-0
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 235 mm x 67 mm
• Series: Michel Thomas Method; Michel Thomas Method
• Subject: Education and learning