Basic Spoken Chinese

You donÆt need characters to speak Chinese! In fact, for English speakers, learning the characters is an inefficient process, one that significantly slows down your progress in learning to speak and listen to Chinese.

Now, respected Chinese language expert Dr. Cornelius Kubler presents a teaching system that uses separate but integrated "tracks" to help you masterùefficientlyùspoken and written Chinese.

Basic Spoken Chinese gives you success at a first-year university level of fluency. Its successful teaching system has been extensively field tested in top universities for the past decade.

After this book, you can use Basic Written Chinese (Tuttle, 2011) to learn Chinese reading and writing at your own pace. It introduces the highest-frequency characters and words in a systematic way.