Chao,Yuen Ren The Mandarin Primer CD

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.

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 30. Lesson 5, Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back, and Middle 31. Ex. 1, Comments ; Ex. 2, Questions to Answer 32. Ex. 3, Why and Because 33. Ex. 4, Cannot and Does Not 34. Lesson 6, a Smoke Ring 35. Ex. 1, Questions to Answer 36. Ex. 2, Previously, Later, and Now 37. Ex. 3, the Pretransitive Baa 38. Lesson 7, Mr. Can't Stop Talking 39. 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 40. Lesson 8, Antonyms 41. Ex. 2, Comments and Paraphrasing 42. Lesson 9, a Good Man 43. Lesson 10, the Tailless Ray 44. Ex., Dictation of Paraphrased Story 45. Lesson 11, Watching the Year Out 46. Lesson 12, a Rescue at Sea 47. Lesson 13, Inquiring After a Sick Man 48. Lesson 14, Conversation with the Doctor 49. Lesson 15, World Geography 50. Lesson 16, Chinese Geography 51. Lesson 17, Talking About the Industrial Co-Ops 52. Ex. 1, Questions to Answer 53. Lesson 18, to the Minsheng Works 54. Lesson 19, Renting a House 55. Ex. 3, Story from the Keeper's Point of View 56. Lesson 20, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" 57. Lesson 21, Listening and Listening in 58. Ex. 2, Dictation of Paraphrased Story 59. Lesson 22, Studying the Chinese Classics 60. Lesson 23, the Vernacular Literature Movement 61. Lesson 24, An American Makes a Speech 62. Ex. 1, Conversation Between Boy and Girl Students