Chinese Link - Beginning Chinese, Simplified Character Version, Level 1/Part 1 (Loose-leaf, 2nd ed.)

"Chinese Link, 2e" provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for instructors. The program helps beginners develop their communicative competence in the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, while gaining competence in Chinese culture, exercising their ability to compare aspects of different cultures, making connections to their daily life and building links among communities. For the first course in the beginning Chinese sequence. For learning Mandarin Chinese. This Books a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class - all at an affordable price.