Basic Chinese (Practice Makes Perfect), 2nd Premium Edition

The go-to guide to Chinese—now with streaming audio of spoken Chinese that dramatically improves your pronunciation skills

Whether you are learning on your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese will support your study and build your confidence in Chinese. In each bite-size lesson of this proven guide, the authors explain one or two grammar concepts and illustrates them with clear examples. These lessons are purposely short, so you can complete them in twenty minutes of less, and go at a pace that works for you.

More than 150 entertaining exercises will help you practice your new skills. And this new edition is accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Chinese will help you master:
• High-frequency vocabulary
• Common sentence structures
• Core grammar concepts
• Reading the simplified version of Chinese characters (supported by pinyin throughout)