Chinese Mandarin Exercise Books and Phrase Books

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Hugo Chinese in Three Months is a great exercise book for quickly learning the language basics. The book comes with accompanying audio material and takes a grammatical approach to learning the language.

Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: This fantastic book is designed to help you learn and remember the 800 most basic characters, including their pronunciation, fast and effectively. It applies visual imagery effectively, and is ideally used alongside a language course.

Startup Business Mandarin: is the first in a projected series of three books for business professionals needing to learn business Mandarin.

Internet freebies:

World Nomads provides a free Chinese Mandarin iPod phrasebook!

This site provides a great guide to the many measure words in the Chinese language. We have some in English for example, 3 "cups" of tea; 2 "bars" of soap; 1 "piece" of paper; etc. However we can also speak of many words without using measure words for example, 3 cats; 2 people; 1 car; etc. That is not the case in Chinese though, so although it seems daunting, one must at some point try to learn/memorize the appropriate measure words for their respective nouns. The site we've referred you to will surely be useful in this.

The following website provides free educational information regarding the teachings of the Bible, with a page in Simplified script and the same information on a page in English. There is also a page in Traditional script. A comparison of the texts can help contribute to your language acquisition.

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