Modern Chinese. A basic course

This overall course in modern Chinese was designed by the Faculty of Peking University and has been used successfully for the past decade in teaching English-speaking and other foreign students basic Mandarin Chinese. Assuming no previous training in Chinese, this course is excellent for self-study, with full explanations and ample pronunciation and grammar drills throughout. The 30 lessons of the Peking University course are a self-contained grammar, beginning with the most basic characteristics of the language. The diligent student, who carefully follows the lessons to the end, will learn an extensive vocabulary (including characters) and will be conversant in the simple Chinese of daily life ... progressing to such complex constructions as "On Saturday I borrowed a translated novel from a friend, and on Sunday (in one day) mad the whole novel"— which he will be able to say and to read.