Learn to speak, read, write and understand Mandarin Chinese!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship—whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Mandarin Chinese will help you to:  

- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Mandarin Chinese easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the simplified Chinese writing system.
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Is this course for me?
Beginners' Mandarin Chinese is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Mandarin Chinese. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Mandarin Chinese.  

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.

 

This ebook can be viewed online on library.teachyourself.com, or downloaded to the Teach Yourself Library app.

The audio for this course is included within the enhanced ebook, but it can also be downloaded separately for free to the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.

Elizabeth Scurfield:
Elizabeth Scurfield co-founded the Chinese Department at the University of Westminster and set up the first ever UK student exchange scheme with China in 1976. She has taught Chinese for nearly 40 years.

Song Lianyi:
Song Lianyi is Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.