A handy Mandarin Chinese phrasebook and guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic vocabulary necessary for getting around. This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Mandarin Chinese in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Mandarin or traveling to China or Taiwan, it also contains a beginner guide to the Mandarin language, allowing for a deeper understanding of Chinese than a typical Mandarin phrasebook or Chinese dictionary. The book is broken into four basic sections: Common Chinese Expressions and Key Words, Essential Chinese Communication Tools, Chinese Travel Vocabulary, and making your own sentences. All Chinese words and phrases are written in Romanized form (pinyin) as well phonetically, making pronouncing Chinese a breeze. For example, the word for “reservation”, yuding is also written as yuu-deeng. Authentic Chinese characters are also included so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with. Key features of Survival Chinese include: Hundreds of useful Chinese words and expressions. An A-Z index which allows the book to function as a English to Chinese dictionary. Romanized forms, phonetic spellings, and Chinese Characters (Hanzi) for all words and phrases. A concise background and history of the Chinese language. A complete guide to Chinese pronunciations. A concise guide to using Chinese tones. A brief introduction to Chinese grammar.

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Do you want to perfect your handwriting?

Do you need a trustworthy resource to teach your children to trace the HSK 1 characters?

Then, this workbook is the perfect companion for your studies.

In it, you’ll find all the 174 simplified HSK 1 characters

Your benefits:

• Clear large letters make it easy to recognize even the most detailed of the Chinese HSK 1 characters.
• Detailed stroke order instructions provide you with a strong foundation to build up your calligraphy skills.
• Dedicated “Trace and Practice” sections are designed to imprint the proper stroke technique into your muscle memory.
• Four carefully selected font variations, with an emphasis on the Chinese fluid brush handwriting style, train your brain to recognize each of the 174 HSK 1 characters based on their specific stroke sequences..
• Characters are organized by complexity, this means will be able to increase your confidence as you move through to the most challenging ones.
• As a bonus, you’ll find the complete list of all the 150 official HSK 1 words in this workbook. This means you won’t need to buy another workbook to train HSK 1 word recognition.
• Two main indexes, and six additional ones at the end of the workbook, guarantee that you can easily find any character or word, whether you search for them by pinyin, radical, general stroke count, or English definition

As if these weren’t enough goodies, 150 unique sample phrases have also been included, with accompanying pinyin readings above each character and the English definition below. This means you’ll be reading HSK 1 level Chinese from day 1.

What’s more, a special effort as been made by our amazing teacher to construct each and every one of these sample phrases exclusively with HSK 1 level words.

With this constant reinforcement you’ll become a master of HSK 1 character handwriting, and recognition, in no time.

Get ready to impress others and get complemented by them on the quality of your calligraphy!

Special information:

Like all Lang Workbooks, this work is also a labor of love.

Accordingly, if you are a teacher, a student of Chinese, or homeschooling your children, you can photocopy any part of the interior of this workbook for your own, or your students, personal use.

Yes, you read that right. Buy this workbook once and feel free to photocopy any, and all, of the interior pages as needed, and distribute them to as many of your students as you want, as long as you do it for free.

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