From Limited to Unlimited: Get Essential Skills for Understanding and Building Phrases in Mandarin Chinese; Make Full Use of Your Vocabulary (Magic Mandarin Book 2)

Many learners, especially beginners, usually feel the pinch of lacking sufficient vocabulary, and it always take the fun out of engaging in chit-chat, let along meaningful conversation. Of course, a simple and direct way of resolving this problem is to spend more time filling your memory with more words, but it can be a really arduous experience. An alternative method is: to make full use of the words you already know and incorporate them in speech, that is to say, acquiring the skills of building unlimited phrases with limited words. In fact, the best solution is to integrate both of the aforementioned methods, because in an actuality, this is what all the Chinese native speakers are doing the same thing.