Beginner's Chinese with 2 Audio CDs, Second Edition (Hippocrene Beginner's Series)

The #1 Chinese self-study course on the market has been updated and revised in this second edition!
 
This Hippocrene bestseller has been redesigned and updated, making learning to speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese easier than ever. New features in this edition include the following:

• 10 practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and exercises
• New audio CDs featuring professional actors from Beijing
• Updated cultural and language notes
• An attractive, easy-to-read presentation of the Chinese characters
• Additional exercises for teaching stroke order and writing skills, plus an index providing traditional character equivalents
• New technology sections on how to read and write Chinese characters on a computer

Spoken by over 850 million people world-wide, Mandarin Chinese is the standard dialect for business and trade in China, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and the world's most widely spoken language. Mandarin is also a useful study tool for students of the Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tibetan languages, all of which have strong cultural roots in Chinese.
 

Yong Ho received his PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics from Columbia University. He presently co-ordinates the Chinese Programme at the UN and serves as the Vice-President and Executive Director of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Greater New York. He is the author of several books on Chinese (Mandarin) language learning, including Intermediate Chinese with Audio CD: Second Edition and Chinese Practical Dictionary, also by Hippocrene Books.