Mandarin Chinese An Explanatory Guide to Key Language Issues: For Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Language Students - Softcover

Taub, Orna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482831821 ISBN 13: 9781482831825

Publisher: PartridgeSingapore, 2015

Synopsis

This textbook is written for students of the Chinese language around the world who have progressed past the beginner level. The aim of the book is to enrich their studying and to make it easier to learn. In this textbook, the student can find learning material, which is not normally found in common textbooks and information that only exists partially in most of them.

About this title

About the Author

Orna Taub was born, along with her twin sister, Hedi, in Haifa, Israel in 1957 to a happy and loving family. As a lifelong lover of knowledge she has studied many different subjects in her life. After serving in the Israeli Army she studied pure mathematics at the Technion, a technical university in Haifa, and received a Master's degree. After graduation she spent four years studying Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and Chinese herbs. To her luck one of her instructors in the Chinese medicine school was a native Chinese doctor who only spoke Chinese. In order to communicate with him directly Orna tried to speak Chinese whenever possible. She gradually became his good friend and helped in managing his everyday life in Israel. In return he helped her with her Chinese language studies. Eventually she became his translator in classes and when he gave private treatments. In the following years Orna continued to study by herself and attended first year lessons with a Chinese teacher from Tianjin. After a few years she made her first trip to China and stayed in Chengdu (Sichuan province) for three months attending the Normal University and taking classes in Chinese language with other foreign students. During that time she spoke only Chinese and made great progress in her language studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: PartridgeSingapore
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482831821
• ISBN 13: 9781482831825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402