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Readings

Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin, Part I

Preliminaries:

Title Page (PDF)

Table of Contents (pp. i-xvi) (PDF)

Background (pp. a-n) (PDF)
Introducing Chinese and its linguistic settings.

Sounds and Symbols (pp. 1-16) (PDF)
Introducing the sounds of Mandarin and the pinyin system of transcribing them.

The core lessons:

Unit 1 (pp. 17-38) (PDF)

Unit 2 (pp. 39-64) (PDF)

Unit 3 (pp. 65-94) (PDF)

Unit 4 (pp. 95-128) (PDF)

Unit 5 (pp. 129-157) (PDF)

The character lessons:

Title Page (PDF)

Character Lesson 1 (pp. 1-14) (PDF)

Character Lesson 2 (pp. 15-28) (PDF)

Character Lesson 3 (pp. 29-40) (PDF)

Character Lesson 4 (pp. 41-52) (PDF)