Description
DESCRIPTION
Moses Asch produced these records with Chao Yuan Ren to accompany his book, the Mandarin Primer, written in 1948. Chao Yuan Ren was an influential linguist in the United States. He conceived and developed Gwoyeu Romatzyh, abbreviated GR, becoming the standard system for Romanizing Mandarin text in 1928 until it was replaced by Hanyu Pinyin in 1958. The notes that accompany this album utilize GR, demonstrating the use of "tone spelling" for Romanization. This album shows an important landmark in the development of the Romanization of the Chinese language.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Lesson A1, Single Tones
2 Lesson A2, Tones in Combinations
3 Lesson A3, the Neutral Tone
4 Lesson B1, Difficult Consonants
5 Lesson B2, Difficult Vowels
6 Lesson B3, Easy Sounds, Hard to Remember
7 Lesson C1, Initials; Lesson C2, Finals
8 Lesson C2, Exercise; Lesson C3, 2nd Tone Finals
9 Lesson C3, Exercise; Lesson C4, 3rd Tone Finals
10 Lesson C4, Exercise; Lesson C5, 4th Tone Finals
11 Lesson C5, Exercises
12 Lesson C8, Exercise (G), General Dictation
13 Lesson D1, Tone Sandhi for I and Bu; Lesson D2, Two-Syllable Groups; Lesson D3, Three-Syllable Groups
14 Lesson 1, You, I, and He "Four Men"
15 Ex. 3, Comments
16 Ex. 4, Questions to Answer
17 Lesson 2, Things
18 Ex. 3, Comments
19 Ex. 4, Questions to Answer
20 Ex. 5, Contrasting Questions
21 Ex. 6, Close and Open Forms of Questions
22 Lesson 3, Speaking Chinese
23 Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
24 Ex. 2, on the Form SH...De
25 Ex. 3, Interjections of Assent & Dissent
26 Lesson 4, Telephoning
27 Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
28 Ex. 4, Filling Out Blanks
29 Ex. 5, Forms of Definition
- Disc 2 -
1 Lesson 5, Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back, and Middle
2 Ex. 1, Comments & Ex. 2, Questions to Answer
3 Ex. 3, Why and Because
4 Ex. 4, Cannot and Does Not
5 Lesson 6, a Smoke Ring
6 Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
7 Ex. 2, Previously, Later, and Now
8 Ex. 3, the Pretransitive Baa
9 Lesson 7, Mr. Can't Stop Talking
10 Ex. 1, Questions to Answer; Ex. 2, Bigger and Not So Big Ex. 3, Not Until and As Soon As; Ex. 4, Not Until; Ex 5, Lai
11 Lesson 8, Antonyms
12 Ex. 2, Comments and Paraphrasing
13 Lesson 9, a Good Man
14 Lesson 10, the Tailless Ray
15 Ex., Dictation of Paraphrased Story
16 Lesson 11, Watching the Year Out
17 Lesson 12, a Rescue at Sea
18 Lesson 13, Inquiring After a Sick Man
19 Lesson 14, Conversation with the Doctor
- Disc 3 -
1 Lesson 15, World Geography
2 Lesson 16, Chinese Geography
3 Lesson 17, Talking About the Industrial Co-Ops
4 Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
5 Lesson 18, to the Minsheng Works
6 Lesson 19, Renting a House
7 Ex. 3, Story from the Keeper's Point of View
8 Lesson 20, "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
9 Lesson 21, Listening and Listening in
10 Ex. 2, Dictation of Paraphrased Story
11 Lesson 22, Studying the Chinese Classics
12 Lesson 23, the Vernacular Literature Movement
13 Lesson 24, An American Makes a Speech
14 Ex. 1, Conversation Between Boy and Girl Students
