Easy Steps to Chinese: Textbook v. 1 + CD Audio

It's a good introduction to the basics

It is a little to easy for me but all exercises are well organized, not too hard, not too easy. No one tried too hard if you know what I mean. You can learn writing, check your grammar and vocabulary. Also it will help you with your radicals!

not easy to learn but presented in an easy way

I bought this (and the exercise book) for my 11 year old son's first foray into learning Chinese and was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. It's easy to use and makes the language easy to learn!

Teacher recommend. Seems like a good first text. Came fast, no hassles.

A very good book for learning Chinese.

VERY WELL ,THANKS

This was the chosen text for an evening class. I had used a similar one before, but this one concentrates more on speech, ie learning to make up sentences rather than just repeat what's given to you. That is great, but as my memory is visual and I prefer to memorise by writing things out, I found it easier to learn the characters from the book that concentrated on written language. It is written for children, so it should be easy enough for adults, but Chinese is never easy! Vocabulary is perhaps more school-orientated. You will learn brother/sister, mum/dad, rather than husband/wife, son/daughter. It's unfortunate that whoever put it into English didn't do this as fluently as they might have. It's ok, though. Expensive, and only the first of a series, but thankfully I managed to get mine second-hand. Includes cd.

Ben fatto, mi è piaciuto

This book was required for one of my kids. The book came clean and she states it is useful and easy to follow. My Mandarin is non-existent so I can't speak to the quality of the writing. But the book itself is well made. It seems to progress logically. And maybe most important it looks like it will hold up for more than 6 months. It works well with the workbook though to my untrained eye they don't seem to correlate 100%. We will see.

Meu filho está gostando e deu tempo para acompanhar o livro nas aulas do curso

Manuel complet et tous est bien expliqué , vendeur prévenant et réactif, j'ai reçu le manuel deux jours après l'avoir commandé.

Good teaching material