Author: Harold Goodman
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Publication date: 28/09/2007
Format: MP3 (44100Hz stereo 128Kbps) + booklet PDF (scanned pages)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780340957264 & 007160443X
Michel Thomas Method: Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course
Summary:
Learn another language the way you learnt your own
You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Mandarin in the same way.
You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it
- Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psy-chologist and linguist Michel Thomas.
- This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Mandarin in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.
- You learn through listening and speaking – without the pressure of writing or memorising.
- You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.
The NEW Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course
An eight-hour, 100% audio method for learning Mandarin Chinese. Join Michel Tho-mas Method teacher Harold Goodman and native speaker Jingtao Deng and two stu-dents in a live lesson and within the first hour you will be able to construct simple phrases. You will learn the language with the students, hearing both their successes and their mistakes to keep you motivated and involved throughout the course. By the end, you will have the confidence to understand and speak Mandarin.
Join the millions of people worldwide who have learnt a new language with the Michel Thomas Method
Contents: 8 CDs plus booklet with Mandarin phrases in English translation and transliterated into Roman script
- Learn another language the way you learnt your own
- Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain
- Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
- All-audio - the way you want to learn
- Revolutionary kinaesthetic method for teaching Mandarin tones
- Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected
- Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Mandarin (transliterated script)
- Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary
- Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Mandarin.
About the Author(s):
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.
Table of Contents:
- 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. shi (‘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: mang means ‘to be busy’
- To form a negative, put bu = ‘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 plu-ral form
- In front of another falling-tone word, bu (falling tone) becomes bu (rising tone)('trampoline' rule)
- Question with a question word, such as ‘why?’
- Use zai to emphasize ‘now, at this very moment’
- Word order in Chinese: who—when—what is happening
- xiang = ‘would like to’
- neng = ‘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: shi = ‘is’, bu = ‘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’
- hui = ‘to be able to’
- Question word ‘who?’
- ‘a, an, one’ (
- yi ge)
- zai (= ‘at’ etc.) in Chinese can be used as and functions as a verb, so zai jia = ‘to be at home’
- Question word ‘where?’
- zhu (zai) = ‘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 have’ formed with mei: mei you = ‘not have’
- yao = ‘to want’ etc.; bu yao = ‘not want’
- qu = ‘go to’
- = ‘today’
- you (‘to have’ etc.) also = ‘there is, there are’
- [zai ] zher, nar = ‘[to be] here, there’
- mei tian = ‘every day’
- you de = ‘(there is) some’
- Three ways to say ‘yes’: repeat the verb; shi ( = ‘to be’ etc.); dui (= ‘cor-rect’)
- yao shuo = ‘want to speak’
- neng shuo = ‘can speak’
- When to say xie xie (= ‘thanks’)
- zai jian = ‘Good bye’ (= ‘again meet’)
- lai = ‘come’
Michel Thomas Method: Mandarin Chinese Advanced Course
Learn another language the way you learnt your own. You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Mandarin in the same way. There's no books and no writing, and you will achieve confidence - in hours. With the "Michel Thomas Method" you learn the language in small steps, building it up yourself to produce ever more complicated sentences. The Method works as it breaks down the language into its component parts, enabling you to reconstruct the language yourself - to form your own sentences, to say what you want, when you want. On the recording you will hear two students being taught in real time and in a classroom situation, so you are learning with others. You enjoy their success and learn from their mistakes. You, as learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class. In a very short time you will be able to manipulate Mandarin structures to express what you want to say.It uses the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. The method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Mandarin in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking - the way you learnt your own language. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. Dr Harold Goodman was trained by Michel Thomas to understand his Method of teaching. On these recordings he is assisted by native Mandarin speaker Jingtao Deng.These all-audio courses are accompanied by an index, where the Mandarin words are printed in Roman script and translated, for easy reference. "The 8-hour Mandarin Foundation Course" is one of the "Michel Thomas Method Mandarin" courses published by Hodder Arnold, the others being the "5-hour Advanced Course", the "2-hour Foundation Review" and the "1-hour Advanced Review". The "2-hour Introductory Course" comprises the first 2 hours of the "Foundation Course".
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