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Level 1, Intro + Lesson 1-2: Vocabulary Review

If you’ve been diligently studying Integrated Chinese all this time, you’ve built up quite a repertoire of vocabulary already. Time for a little break to review and consolidate what you’ve learned. This week will be just for review.
I recommend you try out Dmitry Chirkin’s Integrated Chinese Vocabulary Trainer. It works for every IC lesson, and […]

Introduction: Review

At the end of every chapter we’ll be offering review materials. Since Integrated Chinese focuses so heavily on vocabulary, we’ll be helping you review all the vocabulary using ChinesePod’s own “the Fix” audio review.
Usually the Fix comes once per lesson, but we’re going to be trying some new things for the IC blog. That means […]

Introduction: Related Lessons

Pronunciation
Since the Integrated Chinese Introduction focuses so heavily on pronunciation, we would be seriously remiss to neglect it here. Fortunately, ChinesePod premium users have the online Pronunciation Guide to Mandarin Chinese at their service.
The best way to use the Pronunciation Guide is to download the pinyin chart first (pictured below) from the guide’s main page, […]

Introduction: Vocabulary

Integrated Chinese is written for the classroom, so besides pronunciation and character basics, the Introduction also covers language that a teacher and student would commonly use in the classroom. Before we get to that, though, I’d like to offer you a few words of encouragement.
I. Chinese Pronunciation
The Integrated Chinese Introduction starts off with pronunciation instruction […]

Level 1, Part 1 Syllabus

It’s hard to coordinate an Integrated Chinese syllabus with so many different schools, but we try. Over the next semester we will be following the syllabus below. We hope it makes it easy for you to follow along.
Integrated Chinese Fall 2007 Semester Syllabus: Level 1, Part 1

Week of September 3rd: Introduction and Pronunciation
Week of September […]