Practice Makes Perfect Basic Chinese

Learn the Chinese you need. Gain the language skills you want.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese is a trusted companion to your Chinese learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, the authors explain one or two language concepts and illustrate them with many clear examples. Although these lessons are purposely short so you can complete them in twenty minutes or less, you can go at a pace that works for you.

You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new skills. Whether you are learning on your own or taking an advanced beginning Chinese class, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese will help you build your confidence.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese will help you master:

• Basic grammar
• High-frequency vocabulary
• Sentence structures
• And more

Xiaozhou Wu has been teaching Chinese for more than twenty years and is in the department of modern languages and cultures at Santa Monica College. He previously taught comparative literature and Chinese at Wichita State University, the University of Iowa, and California State University at Los Angeles.