No matter what textbook you're using to learn Chinese, it requires a lot of practice! Here is a wealth of practical activities and drills—plus over 16 hours of audio recordings—to help you improve your spoken Mandarin quickly and efficiently. This book is interchangeable with its earlier edition, Intermediate Spoken Chinese Practice Essentials but works equally well with other course books or on its own. The free disc contains hours of audio recording as well as printable PDF files providing hundreds of pages of extra practice exercises and activities. This book includes hundreds of carefully designed activities to help you with every aspect of your Chinese language skills, including:

• Chinese grammar and vocabulary summaries
  
• Substitution drills
  
• Transformation and response drills
  
• Role-playing exercises
  
• Listening comprehension exercises
  

The accompanying CD-ROM contains:

• 16 hours of audio recordings by native Mandarin-speakers
  
• Printable practice pages
  
• Printable exercises and activities
  
• All CD content is downloadable and streamable online