Recommend a book for beginner Recommend a book for beginner Preliminary Practical Spoken Chinese is a set of textbook for the very beginning students who are going to work in China or live in China. There are short and pithy texts in this book. The words are practical and rich in variety. The topics are close to life. So it is a good choice for beginners who are busy and don’t have much time to learn Chinese regularly but have to use Chinese urgently. This book includes two volumes, every volume include 12 units. The first two units are focus on the phonetics, and learners will learn the basic Chinese pronunciation, initials, finals and four tones, also there are a lot of exercise after every unit, you can practice to read Chinese and to consolidate the phonetics. From third to 24th units are the main chapters. Every unit consists of the new words, text, vocabulary extension, important phrase, notes, language points and oral activity. The contents cover a lot of aspects of the daily life. Just like how to order drinks and meal in the restaurant, how to introduce your family or friends to others, shopping, taking the taxi, daily schedule, see the doctor, rent the apartment ,describe the weather, give somebody a call,describe the places you have been. And the conversation is true to life and practical for beginners. This book can help student to master the survival oral Chinese in a short time. The words are made up of two parts, new words and vocabulary extension; the new words are from text, students have to learn how to read, how to use, and remember the meaning. Extensional vocabulary is from the oral activity, According to the student's ability to learn. All of these words cover about the basic greeting words, about drinks, food, fruits, clothes, countries, numbers, measure words, vehicles, place-words, time-words, and the most important verbs. The oral activity is interactive exercise for learners to practice the Chinese they have just learned, to check learners’ ability to use the Chinese. Each activity exercises are given in the form of pictures, Intuitive and fun. It is easy for learners to practice. Language points, actually its Chinese grammar, this book contains the most important and basic Chinese grammar points, from the most simple grammatical structure to the complex grammatical structures, grammatical system are very systematical. In addition, a CD recording the texts and new words, as well as an exercise book go together with the books for learners to review .