This is the first volume of the revised Practical Chinese Reader series, built for absolute beginners in Mandarin. You’ll follow Ding Libo and other international students as they live in China, learning the language alongside the culture and society around them.
What you’ll be able to do
- Read and write basic simplified characters
- Speak and understand everyday contemporary Mandarin
- Follow a continuous story set in China as you learn
- Build the foundation for intermediate-level Mandarin
- Practise through supplementary exercises tied to each lesson
How the book is organised
- Structured lessons following one ongoing story
- Illustrations and charts alongside the text
- Supplementary exercises for reading, writing, speaking and listening
- First of six volumes in the full 70-lesson series
