Combining the cultivation of integrated language skills with the training of specific language skills in its compilation, this set of textbooks can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and five series (comprehensive, listening, speaking, reading and writing), among which the comprehensive series is the bulk and the others are the accompanying series. The overall purpose is to develop and improve the students’ Chinese language skills, Chinese communication skills, integrated Chinese capabilities as well as enhance their interest and ability in learning Chinese.The whole set has made some new attempts to diversify the language styles and registers, to systemize and specialize language elements, language knowledge and the training of language skills, to reveal the rich and varied social life in modern China and to show the diverse and tolerant Chinese culture.

The Intermediate Comprehensive Course (I), with altogether 15 lessons, is suitable for learners who have mastered basic Chinese grammar, learned 2,000-2,500 commonly used words, and possessed basic communicative skills in Chinese to communicate and interact with others on personal-related or common familiar topics. After completing this textbook, learners will master a certain number of words, language points and functional phrases that should be known and understood at the intermediate level; they will be able to comprehend language materials related to social life, carry out basic expressions in paragraphs, and organize simple chapters; they will further enrich their knowledge of Chinese language, and comprehensively improve their overall linguistic competence of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Chinese as well as their ability to communicate appropriately in the language; they will master the general learning strategies, communicative strategies, resource strategies, basic knowledge of Chinese culture, basic cross-cultural awareness and international perspective; further enhance the motivation for Chinese learning and the ability of independent learning.

Combining the cultivation of integrated language skills with the training of specific language skills in its compilation, this set of textbooks can be divides into three levels (elementary, intermediate and advanced) and five series (comprehensive, listening, speaking, reading and writing), among which the comprehensive series is the bulk and the others are the accompanying series. The overall purpose is to develop and improve the students’ Chinese language skills, Chinese communication skills, integrated Chinese capabilities as well as enhance their interest and ability in learning Chinese.The whole set has made some new attempts to diversify the language styles and registers, to systemize and specialize language elements, language knowledge and the training of language skills, to reveal the rich and varied social life in modern China and to show the diverse and tolerant Chinese culture.

This volume, following the Elementary Comprehensive Course Ⅰ, is suitable for learners who have mastered the most basic Chinese sentence patterns and 1,000-1,200 common Chinese words and have acquired the most fundamental Chinese communication skills. It aims to develop the comprehensive language skills while observing the priority of “listening and speaking”. Attention is paid to the scientific soundness and accurateness of the language elements selected and the arrangement and interpretation of these elements. The texts, with their lengths controlled, are scientifically sound and interesting; the content is very practical, characterized by concise and brief explanatory notes; and the exercises include both writing and speaking ones. The book tries the best to combine the linguistic forms with the communicative situations, functions and needs so as to cultivate students’ abilities in communicating in correct and accurate Chinese and across cultures.

The whole set has made some new attempts to diversify the language styles and registers, to systemize and specialize language elements, language knowledge and the training of language skills, to reveal the rich and varied social life in modern China and to show the diverse and tolerant Chinese culture.

The Elementary Comprehensive Course (I), with altogether 30 lessons, is suitable for total beginners or beginners who can communicate in the simplest Chinese. After finishing this volume, learners can master: (1) the most essential Chinese phonetic knowledge and pronunciation skills; (2) common Chinese words at the elementary stage; (3) basic patterns of Chinese sentences; (4) basic stokes, stroke order and structures of Chinese characters as well as the ability to write the characters; (5) the ability to communicate in elementary Chinese and use Chinese to solve simple problems in their study and daily life; (6) the basic learning and communication strategies; (7) a preliminary knowledge of the Chinese culture related to communication and a fundamental cross-cultural awareness.