The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory Chinese language course specifically designed for native English speakers. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and written forms of Chinese at different speeds depending on your available time and interest.

The free audio and video recordings included with this book reinforce the content and make the learning process easy. Whether you're learning Mandarin for work, travel or other reasons--the Basic Mandarin Chinese approach of having two separate but integrated "tracks" helps you to learn the language more efficiently and more successfully.

Key features of this Chinese textbook and discs include:

• Clear and detailed pronunciation, grammar and cultural explanations
• Exercises and activities based on real-life experiences in China
• Hours of video recordings filmed on location featuring dozens of native speakers in various parts of China and beyond
• Six hours of native-speaker audio recordings for all the book's dialogues and exercises
• Special software allowing you to interact with the recordings.