Learn Chinese with Me 1: Student's Book with 2CDs

This is a really awesome book for non-native speaker, particularly English-speaker. It is plain while useful, as a Chinese teacher for 9 years, I highly recommend this book! Below I'll share some tips for learning Mandarin Chinese:Many people thought it is difficult to learn Mandarin Chinese for English-speakers. However, that notion is not true because Chinese is quite different than English, which is a spelling language! Chinese is a picture language, which means ancient Chinese people draw different pictures as Chinese characters out of everything they saw in the environment, and which makes it advantageous to learn over other languages in a way. It does take time and efforts to learn it well, but what doesn't?Luckily, in learning Chinese, there are at least clues (radicals that are originally drawn from real-life objects) to help in the learning process instead of just memorizing vocabs boringly and endlessly. Therefore, the best way to learn well the language, according to my 10+ of teaching experience, is to learn the radical of the characters first, which by itself usually has a hint from the writing (or drawing) and then forms the character.By the way, I'm teaching Chinese via Skype online, add me to have a FREE Trial! My skype name is : chinese.tutor.frank or GO TO [...]

My daughter is taking Mandarin in Jr. High and needed the book for her upcoming exams in class. I was hesitant to purchase, b/c the book price was much less in NEW condition compared to used books on other sites I browsed. Thankfully, Great Wall Bookstore had good reviews and I took a chance. We are pleased the book shipped so quickly and the book was in Perfect NEW condition as stated and as a bonus the book was also in shrink-wrap. Thanks GREAT WALL BOOKSTORE, will be purchasing future Chinese books from you. :)

This book is very easy to follow and understand. I bought it as part of my Chinese 101 class I was taking. However, even without the class this book will be easy to pick up and understand.

very useful book to learn chinese everything is very clear and the cds are very helpfuli highly recomend this book

This material is presented in a manner so much different than other texts I've used that I found it unworkable. If I didn't already know some Chinese, I don't think I'd get much of a start with this.

Perfect and well priced for a novice Chinese learner

We received this item super fast. It was exactly as described. Although my son is just now starting to use the book, we are sure it will help him supplement the work in his class.

The content of the book is good. However, when I received the book, it was only covered with a shipping box. After I opened the box, the front cover of the book was dirty. It didn't look like a new one. I was in a hurry to use this book so I didn't return it.