Title: 實用視聽華語
Publisher: 國立臺灣師範大學
Year: 2008
Arriving in Taiwan in September 2008, I first encountered Practical Audio-Visual Chinese at Chunghua University in Xinzhu. I had studied one year of Chinese and jumped straight into book three, which was quite a challenge at the time. Still, a semester later, we had finished book three, half of Taiwan Today and had also started on this book, being number four in a series of five books in total. Moving to Gaoxiong in the spring, I started with book five, which means that I had to study book four on my own, which I did quite a long time ago, even though this review is quite late.
There isn’t much new to say about the book as such, since it more or less follows the same pattern used in the first three books. It is by far the best series I’ve seen and book four gives no reason whatsoever to change that. I have only one complaint. I realise that vocabulary becomes more and more specific as the learner advances, but some vocabulary in this book is, frankly speaking, utterly ludicrous (like “nose cancer”, ever needed to use that?). This is quite a minor disadvantage though, so don’t let it stop you (the other series I’ve seen have been far worse in this regard, especially the Far Eastern Everyday Chinese).
As usual, I have also compiled word lists for ZDT for book four. This time I’ve been a lot more careful, entering vocabulary almost verbatim. There probably are some mistakes in there and by reporting them to me, you can help me helping other people to learn correct Chinese. The file can be imported to ZDT via the “Restore data” function (in other words, do not use “Import”). Since I’ve now skipped most of book five, striving even higher, it will probably be quite some time before I review that book and publish my word lists, but that day will come, too. In the meantime, have some fun with the vocabulary for book four!
Important: The lists for ZDT will still be here, but no longer updated. The vocabulary can and should be accessed from the Anki software, which is far superior to ZDT. If youh aven’t changed already, you should do so now.
Download ZDT word lists for Practical Audio-Visual Chinese 4
Tags: Chinese text book, Practical Audio-Visual Chinese, 國立臺灣師範大學
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I have looked at other books, many using just about no English, and they seemed considerably better, because they would give more examples on how to use certain words. The dialogues from one chapter to next do not have very much repetition, so it becomes rather easy to forget what had been learnt the week before.
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Thank you for sharing these word lists! I know how tedious it is to enter all those words. When I was studying in Taiwan I typed in the vocab from the old first PAVC book (which is now the books 1 and 2).
At the time I put the vocab up on http://www.zhongwiki.com . I also wrote some scripts to turn it into printable flashcards and vocab list pdfs. Ever since I’ve been looking for help to type in the other books and finish the job. I would like to create the same type of pdfs, but also provide files for the flash card program Anki.
These are such popular books in Taiwan and it would be great if students could just use a flashcard program throughout studying the five books without having to type everything out again.
I was just wondering, would you give me permission to use your lists as a basis for the files on ZhongWiki?
Thank you,
Arne
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