ATS Translation

Reading and Writing Chinese has been the standard text for foreign students and self-teachers of the Chinese Writing System since Tuttle first published it over 20 years ago. This new, completely revised edition offers students a more convenient, efficient, and up-to-date introduction to the writing system.

Paperback:  368 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0804832064
Author/Editor:  William McNaughton, Li Ying (1999)

This attractive and highly accessible book introduces readers to enough Mandarin Chinese to help them get around in typical travel situations. It opens with a pronunciation key, and goes on to emphasize the sounds of Chinese words and phrases. Sections that follow guide the reader through practice of often-used words, phrases, and sentences in typical travel situations that include arriving at a hotel, sightseeing, taking public transportation, and more. Also featured are vocabulary cards to improve students’ visual recognition of words and increase their word power in Chinese.

Paperback:  300 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0812096894
Author/Editor:   by Lifei Ji (Author)

Instant Conversation Mandarin Chinese includes the first 16 lessons from the Comprehensive Level I. 8 hours, interactive audio-only instruction. Language learning with real-life conversations.

The Pimsleur® Method provides the most effective language -- learning program ever developed. More than one million people every year use it to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily -- without books, written exercises, or drills.

Easy and Practical

This package contains sixteen lessons that will get you started speaking today! Simply listen, follow the instructions, and then respond out loud, just as you would in an actual conversation. Complete one lesson each day, in consecutive order. When you've finished this program, you'll be thrilled to realize you can hold a real conversation in Chinese Mandarin!

• Go beyond the 8-lesson Quick & Simple -- and double your language skills
• Simple, step-by-step instruction
• No classes to attend - Learn at your own convenience and pace
• No books, written exercises, or memory drills
• Listen-and-respond method lets you self-test your mastery

Paperback:  320 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0743529138
Author/Editor:  Pimsleur (2002)

If you are serious about learning Chinese, this book and its sequel "Intermediate Chinese" by Yong Ho, head of the Chinese program at the United Nations, are just about ideal. They are by no means phrase books, but form a basis for a thorough but practical study of Chinese.

Paperback:  173 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0781810957
Author/Editor:  Yong Ho (2005)

Authors Timothy Green and Zhao Fang worked for two years to create a language book that made learning Mandarin easy and fun. It also had to contain words and phrases that travellers would use. The pair have a sense of humor as the book contains off-colour or potentially offensive phrases that, let's be honest, you might have to use in China. The book is timely.

Paperback:  289 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0977195309
Author/Editor:   by Fang Zhao (Author)