Title: Designed for You: Chinese Listening Practice
Creator: Jingjing Ao (Lector of Chinese)
Language: Chinese
Summary: Designed for You: Chinese Listening Practice is a carefully crafted listening textbook by Jingjing Ao, a Chinese language instructor at Yale University. This book is designed to meet the diverse needs of learners at different proficiency levels. It features listening exercises drawn from everyday life, current events, and cultural topics, guiding learners to build their comprehension and communicative competence step by step.
True to its name, Designed for You offers personalized, level-appropriate listening experiences. Each unit includes pre-listening guidance and while-listening tasks that encourage reflection and language use in authentic contexts. Learners can find the scripts on the Script page and check their understanding using the answers provided on the Answers page.
Through this book, learners will not only strengthen their listening skills but also deepen their understanding of Chinese society and culture—learning to listen with the ear and connect with the heart.