The Study Of Usoff’s A Course Of Colloquial Chinese

"A Course of Colloquial Chinese" is a set of Chinese textbooks written by Serge N.Usoff in the 20 th century for Russian learners to learn Chinese.This article will delve into the language system of "A Course of Colloquial Chinese",through the research methods such as induction,chart,comparative analysis and translation,not only to study Chinese at that time from three aspects of phonetics,vocabulary and grammar,but also to analyze "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" from the teaching methods,to study the application of this set of Chinese teaching materials to the second language teaching methods,and to analyze its value and significance.Finally,from the perspective of comprehensiveness and reality,a brief evaluation of the Chinese textbook "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" from two aspects of value and shortcomings.The paper includes six chapters:The first chapter is an introduction,which mainly introduces the basic information of "A Course of Colloquial Chinese",including its research background and objects,previous research overview,research significance and research methods,background of the book and the style of compilation.The second chapter is pronunciation study.It not only briefly compares the similarities and differences between the Wade-system in "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" and the Wade-system in "Yü Yen Tzǔ êrh Chi" and"Scheme of the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet",and also analyzes in detail The phonetic system in "A Course of Colloquial Chinese".The third chapter is vocabulary study,which mainly organizes and analyzes the vocabulary in "A Course of Colloquial Chinese",and analyzes the structural types and characteristics of vocabulary in light of the modern Chinese perspective.The fourth chapter is grammatical study,which mainly analyzes the grammatical points of "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" from the perspectives of parts of speech,phrases,sentence patterns and sentence categories,and combines the characteristics of the times to analyze its unique Chinese grammar within the English category.The fifth chapter is the study of teaching methods.By combining Serge N.Usoff’s life background,to analyze the teaching methods that used by "A Course of Colloquial Chinese".And to evaluate the use of the teaching method in "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" from the perspective of second language teaching.The sixth chapter is the evaluation of "A Course of Colloquial Chinese",dialectically analyzes the value and shortcomings of "A Course of Colloquial Chinese" from both positive and negative aspects,and puts forward suggestions for the compilation of contemporary Chinese as a foreign language teaching materials from the perspective of Chinese international education.