Chinese 300. Three hundred Chinese Sentences

Chinese 300 has been designed to help students who take short courses in Chinese. It may be used either as a basic textbook or as a drill book for listening and speaking by those who have mastered about 1000 Chinese characters.
The book focuses on everyday conversational Chinese. It aims at quick results by teaching everyday language. Students will be able to speak as they learn and gradually improve their listening and speaking abilities.
The 30 lessons in the book have been compiled to cover as as many as possible of the situations that a foreigner living in China may encounter. Each lesson consists of five parts – 10 basic sentences, substitution drills, dialogues, English equivalents of new words, and supplementary words and expressions. For the benefit of beginners, all the basic sentences, new and supplementary words and expressions arc provided with their equivalcnts in English.
The book embodies elementary Chinese sentence patterns which will help students to learn the rules of the Chinese language, in addition to conversational usage.