Used – Chinese With Ease - Volume 1, 2nd Edition - Philippe Kantor - Assimil

Author(s): Philippe Kantor Publisher: Assimil France Printed: 2007 Number of pages: 394 Number of books: 1 Weight: 338 g Dimensions: 18.00 x 12 x 2.2 cm EAN: 9782700500899 Summary: This first volume contains 49 lessons. It was designed to give you a real start in Mandarin Chinese or "common language," taught and understood throughout China.

It is the inseparable first part of a set of 105 lessons that will lead you to master basic spoken language.

The Chinese texts are given in Pinyin (Chinese phonetic alphabet) to allow for immediate "spoken" learning of the language.

The vocabulary is that of everyday and practical life in today's China.

Your learning is guided by the principle of intuitive assimilation: first a passive phase (volume 1), during which you gradually "absorb" the basic elements of Chinese.

Then, the active phase (volume 2), which allows you to form your own sentences and reach the level of basic current conversation.

Essential complements to your study and produced by professional speakers, the recordings (cassettes or CDs), containing all the Chinese texts, are available separately.

Finally, if you wish to learn ideograms from the beginning of your study, we offer our work "Chinese Writing" which explains the (...) stroke by stroke of the 800 most (...) modern characters.