The “New Standard Chinese Undergraduate Series” is a set of Chinese undergraduate textbooks based on the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education, adhering to the integration of “structure-function-culture” and upholding comprehensive quality training featured “language + professionalism” throughout. Aiming at better meeting the needs of Chinese language teaching for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies under the new standard, this series is based on the concepts of “diversification, three-dimensionality, innovation and intelligence”, and is mainly tailor-made for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies in Chinese language. Meanwhile, it can be used in relevant training courses at home and abroad, and meet the learning needs of long-term advanced students and self-taught learners coming to China to study Chinese. The whole set is divided into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and two sequences (horizontal and vertical). The horizontal sequence is divided into four major sections, including Chinese language skills and knowledge, cultural knowledge, translation between Chinese and foreign languages, and business Chinese, while the vertical sequence is based on comprehensive teaching materials, supplemented by teaching materials for listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, which are used throughout the first to the fourth year of undergraduate education, so that the ratio of general skills courses with professional skills and knowledge courses at all levels can be balanced to ensure that students can obtain in-depth and balanced learning effects at all stages of study.

 

Elementary Chinese Comprehensive Course is a series of textbooks for elementary-level comprehensive language courses, divided into 4 volumes. This book is Volume 1.

 

Elementary Chinese Comprehensive Course Ⅰ consists of 18 lessons. Each lesson comprises several key sections, including Lesson Learning Focus, Text, Vocabulary, Phonetics, Grammar, In-Class Exercises, and Cultural Tips. Lessons 1 to 10 belong to the phonetics stage. During this stage, learners will systematically study knowledge related to Chinese phonetics, such as initials, finals, tones, neutral tones, and retroflexion. The in-class exercises of each lesson are designed to target the phonetic knowledge taught in that lesson, covering training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Lessons 11 to 18 fall into the grammar stage. Here, learners will systematically learn the Level 1 grammar points and some Level 2 grammar points from the Grading Standards.

 

This textbook is equipped with supporting courseware, which can be self-accessed in the one-code-for-one-book resource zone under the scratch-off silver coating on the back cover of the book.

 

This textbook is designed for zero-proficiency learners, short-term Chinese language program participants, and learners at home and abroad who take Chinese as a major or an elective course, covering one semester of study. It is recommended that 8 to 10 class hours (with each class hour being 50 minutes) be allocated on average to complete one lesson.