Year of the Goat: An AI-Savvy Approach to Learning Intermediate Chinese
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Year of the Goat adopts a learner-centered approach and infuses elements of AI-assisted language acquisition into its lessons. Volume 2 of the textbook explores the themes of food, family, ancestry, religion, livelihood, and romance.
The book traces the footsteps of a student, an interpreter, a flight attendant, a software engineer, and a music artist, whose lives are intertwined as they spend a year in China. In the process, it addresses such hot-button issues as student debt, illegal immigration, relationship infidelity, and gun violence by introducing uncomfortable situations in which characters must leverage their cultural understanding and pragmatic knowledge to navigate problems.
The book is an intermediate-level Chinese language textbook that contains traditional and AI-powered exercises, and is paired with a companion website (resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781041001232) that provides access to grammar podcasts and audiovisual content.
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Chris Wen-chao Li is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University, and has taught courses in linguistics, translation & interpreting, news writing & Chinese language.
Content
Introduction.
UNIT 7. TAIWAN.Meet the Parents
Shouting Match
Advice Column
UNIT 8. ROOTS.
Remembrance
Ancestral Roots
Melting Pot
UNIT 9. HOT POT.
Online Reviews
Chance Encounter
Parting GracefullyUNIT 10. NUPTIALS. Wedding Gifts
Black-Tie Reception
Fortune-TellingUNIT 11. LIVELIHOOD.Career Planning
Between East and West
Job Interview
UNIT 12. HOMECOMING.Farewell Hong Kong
Nighy on the Town
Airport Crowd
Epilogue
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