Jia You! Chinese for the Global Community is a full-year program for intermediate students of Chinese. It is designed for college students in second-year Chinese as a foreign language program and senior high school students taking the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam.

Volume 2 continues the second half of the Jia You! program.  It develops the student's awareness of social and environmental issues, societal changes brought about by China's economic development, the origin and evolution of Chinese characters, famous people and their contribution to society, and Chinese literature and arts.

The program includes Student Textbooks, Workbooks, Audio CDs, Instructor’s Resource Manuals, Video on DVD and a companion website.  The bound-in Jia You! Audio CDs provide the audio program for all narratives, dialogs and vocabulary in the textbook.

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Benefits:

• Interweaves the teaching of Chinese language and culture
• Integrates the "5Cs" of National Standards for Foreign Language Education - Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons and Communities
• Incorporates authentic, colorful photographs of people from different Chinese speaking cultures and their activities
• Integrates current, engaging and thought-provoking texts of different forms and discourse styles to expose students to a broad range of written texts
• Integrates content-based vocabulary, grammar, exercises and activities
• Offers a broad range of communicative exercises
• Provides prompts and example sentences to step learners through speaking and writing tasks
• Features supplementary practice texts for advanced learners
• Integrates Simplified and Traditional characters
• Workbook exercises, which are modeled after the AP Chinese exam, test learners on cultural knowledge and all four language skills
• Empowers instructors with a comprehensive teaching resource; Offers practical teaching tips, expanded notes and supplementary culture information