Working Mandarin for Beginners is designed to enable English-speaking business students and professionals with no prior knowledge of Chinese to develop the basic communication skills necessary for a business trip to China or another work environment in which Mandarin is spoken.

Major Features:

• Twenty-four lessons, including five review lessons.
• Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding.
• Lessons cover important basics, such as introductions and greetings, counting, reserving a hotel room, taking public transportation, and asking for directions.
• Lessons cover business tasks such as coordinating and conducting meetings, selling products, and negotiating agreements-all in Chinese.
• Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, language points, cultural points, pronunciation drills, and interactive homework.
• Course concludes with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of business study.
• Pinyin is used throughout so students can start speaking Mandarin immediately.
• Includes some basic lessons in the formation of Chinese characters.
• Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com).
• Includes MP3 tracks of dialogues, vocabulary lists, and audio exercises on CD.
• Lessons are valuable to the classroom student as well as self-directed independent learners.