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Learn Chinese with Me is a series of textbooks designed especially for overseas high school students. It is mainly targeted at students of Chinese language, aged between 15 and 18 years old, whose native language is English.

Learn Chinese with Me is a product of many years’ painstaking labor carried out with a passion and devotion to the cause of Chinese teaching. During the process of compiling this series (from the framework design to the selection and arrangement of the language materials), we have taken into consideration the latest research on the acquisition of Chinese as a second language, especially on the acquisition of Chinese by English-speakers, our own experiences of teaching Chinese as a second language and feedback from numerous other Chinese language teachers working on the front line. We were able to design the textbooks and arrange the content on the basis of a wide spectrum of knowledge and experience, both academic and practical.

This series of textbooks guides the students from beginner to low-intermediate level. The compiling principle is to foster high school students’ interest in learning Chinese. The content is natural and interesting and arranged in accordance with the rules of learning a second language. To cope with the general needs of conducting daily communication, the sentence patterns and grammar are presented to students in an order that emphasizes functional usage and the language materials are arranged within situational topics. The selection of these topics owes a great deal to overseas high school students themselves. In 2001, we conducted a survey among high school students in two North American cities on Topics That You’re Interested in, and the topics in this series of textbooks have been carefully selected based on this survey of over 500 questionnaires. It is our goal that this textbook series is, on the one hand, functional, pragmatic and interesting to the learner, and on the other hand, systematic, scientific, and academic.

The entire series of Learn Chinese with Me is composed of 12 books, including 4 Student’s Books, 4 Teacher’s Books, 4 Workbooks and other phonetic and listening materials and multimedia materials supplemented to the Student’s Books. The series can meet the needs of teaching Chinese to 9-12 grades in English-speaking countries and communities.

Table of Contents

Chinese Phonetic Transcription (Pinyin)
Unit One  School, Classmates and Teachers
1 你好
2 再见
3 我是王家明
4 谢谢
5 她们是学生吗
6 他们是我的朋友
Unit Summary
 
Unit Two  Hanging out with My Friends
7 他是谁
8 谁是你的好朋友
9 你有几张中文光盘
10 这是谁的钱包
11 祝你生日快乐
12 今天我很高兴
Unit Summary
 
Unit Three  My Family and I
13 你多大
14 这是我的狗
15 你从哪里来
16 我住在柏树街
17 你家有几口人
18 我爸爸是医生
Unit Summary
 
Unit Four  Four Seasons of the year
19 现在几点
20 你每天几点起床
21 昨天、今天、明天
22 星期六你干什么
23 今天天气怎么样
24 冬天冷，夏天热
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Unit Five  Food and Clothing
25 我要二十个饺子
26 孙你们家买不买年货
27 一共多少钱
28 你喜欢什么颜色
29 穿这件还是穿那件
30 他什么样子
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Unit Six  Sports and Health
31 你哪儿不舒服
32 医生，我牙疼
33 你会游泳吗
34 去游泳池怎么走
35 你去哪儿度暑假
36 运动场上有很多人
Unit Summary
 
Appendix
Ⅰ Class Activity
1. Flying Chess of Chinese
2.     A Maze of Color
3.     Chinese Competition in the Forbidden City
Ⅱ Vocabulary
Ⅲ Chinese Characters
Table of Combinations of Initials and Finals in Putonghua