This is the complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you speaking quickly and accurately! This series offers a complete introductory Chinese language course specifically designed for native English speakers. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and written forms of Chinese at different speeds depending on your available time and interest. The free audio discs included with this book reinforce the content and make the learning process easy. No matter whether you're learning Mandarin for work, travel or other reason, the Basic Mandarin Chinese approach of having two separate but integrated tracks helps you to learn the language more efficiently and more successfully.