"The fun way to learn to speak Chinese With more than 1.2 billion speakers across the globe -- and with nearly 3 million in the U.S. alone -- Mandarin Chinese claims the top spot as the world's most common language. If you want to learn this language to get ahead at school or work, or to make your travel to China easier, this is the handy reference you'll want by your side. Chinese For Dummies teaches basic grammar, as well as the necessary vocabulary...

The Chinese dictionary that makes learning vocabulary fun and engaging. Whether you are 8 or 108, this fully illustrated dictionary makes building Mandarin Chinese vocabulary easy, stimulating, and fun. Each of the 1,500 entries is represented by its Chinese script as well as its official pinyin transliteration. But what really brings the language alive are the vibrant illustrations that will. help you remember key terms and phrases. It also includes...

A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese--how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters--is provided in this handbook. Beginning with the simplest of strokes, such as those for numbers, scepter, and earth, and progressing to the extremely complex, such as destroy, insert, and mouse, this manual presents a methodology employing memory techniques to associate meanings...

This is the complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you speaking quickly and accurately! This 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...

This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese. It can be used together with any Chinese textbook or teaching program to hone your Chinese reading and writing language skills.