本套教材的设汁理念可以归纳为"短""平""快"。"短"主要体现在课文短小精悍,语法简明扼要,适用于课时灵活的短期汉语教学;"平"主要体现在其通用性上,在话题选择和内容安排上淡化时效性和地域性,适用于不同地区、不同母语者的汉语教学;"快"体现为本教材能够迅速提高学习者汉语水平,使学习者能够很快适应汉语环境下的日常生活。
本套教材共有初、中、高三个级别,每级包括听说和读写两本。这三级六本书通过话题、主题、词汇的横向关联、纵向递进和螺旋上升等方式形成一个整体,给学生全方位的训练。 This series of textbooks is designed for short-term students of Chinese, both in China and abroad. It addresses three levels of study---fundamental, intermediate and advanced. Each level has a listening and speaking book and a reading and writing book. These six books are connected through topics, themes and vocabulary of increasing levels of difficulty, and thus are linked as a whole, giving students a full range of training. This book is the main textbook for the fundamental level. The topics are closely related to daily life, and the texts, basically one or two round simple dialogues, are followed by new vocabulary and scenario exercises, which facilitate practice after learning. Each lesson contains three to six dialogues. These are accompanied by communication exercises to increase the learners speaking opportunities.