A Short Intensive Course of New HSK, aimed at providing pre-exam guidance and intensive training for the New HSK candidates and training institutions, includes 10 volumes altogether, i.e., the intensive training courses respectively for levels 3~6, the workbooks supporting the intensive courses, the volumes for intermediate spoken Chinese and advanced spoken Chinese. The intensive training course for each level provides two model tests and specific intensive training on the testing points and difficult points about grammar, vocabulary etc., the common errors, and test-taking strategies. The model tests and exercises demonstrate similarity to the official New HSK in difficulty.

This is a course book providing short-term intensive training for candidates and their teachers of HSKK (Intermediate Level), aimed at comprehensively improving students’ speaking skills. Focusing on the test points and difficult points in HSKK (Intermediate Level) and using examples from the past exams, it combines teaching and practicing and provides followed-up exercises in time. All the subjective questions are provided with the expressions and recording for reference. 130 key sentences and their recording are provided as well. This book also summarizes the key words and grammar items accompanying the HSKK syllabus (Intermediate Level). The textbook falls into the following units: the introduction of the test/the introduction of the structure/suggestions on how to use this book—Model Test 1 (a pre-tutorial test so that you’ll find your weak point)—breaking down each item—Model Tests 2-5 (to summarize and make pre-exam practice) —Useful appendices (including the list of common functions and grammar items). It is well-structured to facilitate students’ self-learning and teachers’ instruction. Being a former examiner of various Chinese tests, the author has unique analysis and prediction of the questions and test points. The model tests she wrote demonstrate similarity with the real ones in difficulty and the reference expressions are combined with the marking criterion. The hierarchically designed recording is easy to use. 

Zhao Yanfeng, the Associate Professor in the School of Chinese as a Second Language of Peking University, has rich experience in teaching Chinese to foreigners both in and out of China. She wrote many influential books for HSK and worked as an examiner of various Chinese speaking tests. A Short Intensive Course of HSK, the original edition of this series she wrote, has been ranking as a best seller for a long time in the retail market of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its cumulative sales had reached nearly 300,000 volumes.