Making Connections: Enhance Your Listening Comprehension in Chinese (Traditional Character Edition) (Chinese Edition) [Chinese]

By Madeline K. Spring

Making Connections offers students an early start to developing important strategies to improve their listening comprehension. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 0887273653
• ISBN13: 9780887273650
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Underrated Resource for Beginning and Intermediate Level Students

It's unfortunate that there are only two (now three) reviews for this book/CD set, because it really does fill a much needed gap in resources for beginning and intermediate level students. I consider myself an low-intermediate level student; I lived in Taiwan and China but not long enough to really gain "fluency." The thing is, normal people in China don't talk like your textbook; in fact, there is much more of a spontaneous flow to conversations including pauses, affirmations, comprehension checks and etc. I do sympathize with the person who wanted a text version of the listening, but think of it this way: this much more accurately reflects the actual experience of speaking and listening in China-- except you get the option of listening to it again! Highly recommended. It would be nice to see a text version put out over the internet, though.

Excellent - buy it!

This book's purpose is to improve listening comprehension at an early level rather than waiting until later, and it fulfills that purpose nicely. The dialogues are enjoyable to listen to, and are at a normal speaking rate without being too fast or using too large a vocabulary. The text is used to test listening comprehension. Basically, this is how Chinese is really spoken, and if you want to advance to the next level you would do well to buy this book/cd package. If the author had provided transcripts, it would have been too easy to cheat, and you wouldn't really gain, because of course you can easily follow along if the words are right in front of you right? And in that case, this book would be like many others already out there and really add nothing new to the genre. The dialogues weren't left out due to laziness, after all this is a 300-page book already. I found this to be a great book and the dialogues really are not that difficult, and provide a nice challenge for the level. Glad I bought it.