Description

This revised and extended edition of the best-selling Colloquial Chinese is the ideal introduction to modern Mandarin Chinese. Dialogues and vocabulary sections have been updated to include characters in addition to pinyin romanisation. Along with an introduction to the art of writing Chinese characters, this revised edition also provides full English translations of all dialogues. This major course concentrates on the Mandarin Chinese currently used by educated native speakers throughout China and Taiwan. The course teaches both the romanised system and basic character use. Characters are broken down into their smallest parts in order to show their use in a systematic and graded manner.