This course is designed for beginners. It places emphasis on all four skills ( listening, speaking, reading and writing ) and incorporates into our teaching materials with detailed grammar , while speaking and listening skills will be intensively trained. Our unique teaching materials will enable you to use PinYin (or Pin-Yin), the most powerful tool for self-learning, while learning the four skills with fun and confidence. You can also make, speak and understand thousands of different situational conversations. In the meantime, you will be able to read and write basic and very useful simplified Chinese characters, including sentences. Recommended Textbooks: Elementary I 
| 25 lessons Applicable for beginners to start oral mandarin lesson; Topic-oriented lessons for survival mandarin; Plenteous exercises for pinyin correction / tones / language checkpoints; English notes of language points and cultural background introduction. | 
| 20 lessons The textbook then builds on these basic sentences via substitutions, expansions, and sample conversations. This is a short term book especially designed to improve your speaking level. You may not get why, but how. That is to say, enables you to got understood as quickly as possible if some grammar errors or slightly disorganized sentences are acceptable. | 
| 15 lessons It has 6 volumes leveling from elementary to advanced. This book features in its effectively-ordered study programs which take steps for learning. Plus, with influential exercises and grammar checkpoints, probably you may find this textbook the easiest to follow. Therefore, if you want to have a “school-style” course and plan to learn Chinese systematically in long run. This textbook is what you need | 
| 20 lessons Used as the core textbook at Peking University, Boya Chinese is comprised of four levels: elementary, low-intermediate, intermediate and advanced. The elementary level, suitable for beginners, features more than 1200 first-degree words from the Syllabus of Chinese Words. |
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