Conversational Chinese 301

It is intended to be an intensive course book for foreigners who have just started to learn Chinese. This book consists of 40 lessons and 8 reviews. These 40 lessons encompass nearly 30 communicative functions such as 'Greeting' and 'Making an Acquaintance,' about 800 new words and the fundamentals of Chinese grammar. Each lesson is divided into six parts: Sentences, Conversation, Substitution and Extension, New Words, Grammar and Exercises. The book lays emphasis on improving learner's ability to use Chinese for communication. It presents the most essential and useful part of the language in the linguistic environments one is usually exposed to in daily life, so as to enable the learner to master the 301 basic conversational sentences fairly quickly.