教老外汉语20个简单的句子

Savvy Chat Chinese – 20 Questions to Basic Fluency

20 Questions to Basic Fluency:

Guide to Basic Conversational Mandarin

by Matt Sikora

First Edition, 2012

Editor: Seraph Ching

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Savvy Chat Chinese – 20 Questions to Basic Fluency

How to use this book

Conversation is the heart of language learning. Talking with someone in another language

develops your listening skills while giving you the speaking practice that you need. But

conversing in another language can be hard to manage when you are first starting out. Savvy Chat Chinese – 20 Questions to Basic Fluency is homebase for developing your Mandarin

Chinese communication skills. It is not only a guide for you, but it is also a guide for your

language partner. Conversation is all about improvising within the linguistic and cultural rules of the language. This book allows you improvise with a manageable number of high frequency questions and answer and it gives your language partner a guide as to how to help you so that you can both make the most of your time. Below are some suggestions on how to use Savvy Chat Chinese – 20 Questions to Basic Fluency:

1. Read the book – Read the book all the way through. It gives you a unique perspective on the

grammar at work behind the patterns and characters used in the questions and answers.

2. Personalize the book – Take some time to personalize the questions and answers in this book

with your own information. If someone asks you one of these questions it is important for you to be able to come up with a response with your own information. Write out your answers (or your likely answers) to each of the 20 questions and keep that list handy.

3. Chat – Whether you are face to face or texting - communicating with real people is still the

best way to learn a language. You need to use the questions and answers in this book as often as you can. You don’t need to be perfect. In fact, you absolutely have to make mistakes in order to learn languages. No one, native speaker or foreigner, young or old, has ever learned Mandarin without going through the same thing that you are going through right now. If you have a

language partner, let the person know that you are focusing on these 20 questions and answers and give the person a copy of them so he or she can help you. You will be able to make the most of your time if both of you are using these questions and answers in your conversations.