Description:

Essential Chinese 1500 (Second Edition) is the book specially designed for self-directed study of Chinese language. It contains a collection of 1500 essential Chinese sentences and 1176 essential Chinese words organized into 286 topics involving the use of 828 commonly used Chinese characters. Sentences in this book are short, expressive and representative. The average length of sentences is five characters. The contents of the book are organized into conceptual topics. Each topic section contains a vocabulary list and a sentence list. The vocabulary list in each topic is stand-alone; thus you can start anywhere without any dependence on earlier topics. By studying this book, your Chinese language learning process can be significantly shortened and simplified. The book can be used either as a self-study textbook for beginners or a quick reference manual for intermediate and advanced level students seeking a usage by topic.