Close the Deal: Advanced Chinese for Creative And Productive Business

by Yu Feng, Xiaoxue Dai, Miranda Chen Tahnk

Close the Advanced Chinese for Creative and Productive Business is a unique higher-level textbook for teachers and learners who want to expand their advanced Chinese language skills into the business arena. With specialized, task-oriented content and an energetic corporate feel, its cutting-edge language curriculum closely approximates real-world commercial ventures. In Close the Deal , students will combine language and business learning in projects. As students explore these and other areas, students acquire both up-to-date trade and commercial vocabulary as well as decision-making acumen. Close the Deal engages them in role plays and projects that allow them to read, write, speak, collaborate with others, and make decisions in a Chinese-language business context. Close the Deal features extensive vocabulary lists, including idiomatic phrases that are a key component of professional fluency. The companion audio CDs and periodically updated online supplementary resources make Close the Deal a particularly dynamic learning experience in and beyond the classroom.

287 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005