What are you going to learn from this book?

Expand your Chinese words and learn grammar basics at the same time
Apply your newly learned grammar skills to everyday mandarin conversations.

Acquire clear sentence structure and a basic foundation for speaking Mandarin.

Lesson One Pronoun (1)

Singular & Plural

Pronoun-possessive

Chinese words related to family, work  
 
 place, school, and social life

Lesson 2 Pronoun (2)

Review: when, who, where, what, how many and how much

Learn: when, what time, why, how (ways of feelings), and how old

Lesson 3 Adjective

Learn color, size, and volume

For example:

    (1) I want a medium size coffee

    (2) He has 3 red apples.

Lesson 4 Comparative and Superlative

This apple is the biggest.

The color is the blackest.

My car is the most expensive.

Lesson 5 Preposition & Direction

Learn to ask & tell the position and direction.

For example:

    (1) The flower is inside the box

    (2) Please drive east.



Lesson 6-8 Tense

Past, present, perfect, and future tense

I have eaten pizza.

I had eaten pizza.

I already ate pizza.

I am going to eat pizza.

I want to eat pizza.

Lesson 9-10  Ways of asking questions and common answers

You will get trained and be familiar with the colloquial conversation in these two lessons.