| Brief Description: | Intended for beginners who want to learn Chinese without memorizing characters, this book can be used in a classroom context or for individual study. Derived from the Elementary Chinese Reader series, it aims to maintain the concise and practical nature of the original series while offering a greater variety of topics, notes and exercises. After each of the ten lessons, a self-examination is provided along with explanations of grammar and usage. It covers forty lessons and a vocabulary of 1,500 words and expressions |