Learning Chinese

This beginner's guide teaches basic Mandarin Chinese through manga comic strips. It covers practical conversations, essential vocabulary and how to write the basic characters, with the aim that readers can start communicating from the very first day.

Every Chinese word and sentence appears in Chinese characters and in hanyu pinyin romanization to help with pronunciation, along with an English translation. Along the way, the book offers notes and explanations on pronunciation, the Chinese script, greetings and requests, basic sentence structure and vocabulary, and idiomatic expressions. It also includes etiquette dos and don'ts and important cultural notes.

A bi-directional dictionary of commonly used Chinese words and phrases at the back of the book works as a quick reference.