Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way with Audio CD (Barron's Easy Way)

Titles in Barron's Easy Way series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. 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.

(back cover)
ALL THE
ESSENTIALS
IN ONE CLEAR
VOLUME
by Philip F. Williams, Ph.D.
and Yenna Wu, Ph.D.

An introductory course in Mandarin Chinese makes learning fun

Amusing dialogues introduce vocabulary and grammar concepts

An enclosed audio compact disc familiarizes you with spoken Mandarin Chinese

Learn basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary with true-to-life dialogues

Includes an introduction to Chinese written characters, plus dialogues in simplified characters