Mandarin Chinese: The Easy Way

** NOTE: This book uses pinyin only, but a list of the characters introduced in each lesson can be found in appendix **

This second edition of Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Chinese written characters is presented in the book's final chapter. The enclosed audio CD familiarizes you with spoken Mandarin Chinese and its intonations.