Very Practical Chinese: 45 Conversations to Know

Very Practical Chinese - 45 Conversations To Know (VPC) and its companion text, the VPC Study Guide are the product of three years of work and a combined total of 35 years of experience learning and teaching Chinese. The first two books in the start of an exciting new language learning series, VPC's unique system teaches you to understand, speak, read and write Mandarin, the language spoken by one billion people worldwide. VPC features Standard Mandarin, the official and most widely spoken and understood dialect of Chinese. The comprehensive 255 page VPC textbook features 45 original, easy to learn, practical and effective every day conversations, supported by a combined total of 12 hours of audio on two Audio CD-roms. The conversation topics cover a wide ground - everything from shopping and sightseeing to small talk and apartment hunting, discussing interests and meeting new people. VPC enables you to know to talk about life, love, travel, money, work, play…everything that's important to you! It's the perfect conversation book for real life! In addition, the VPC textbook features an 80 page glossary of over 3,000 words and phrases compiled from the pages of the text and study guide, a 15 page guide to the latest slang, proverbs, tongue twisters and more. The VPC Study Guide is a 224 page, sentence-by-sentence guide to the VPC textbook - to learn more, click here. For sample chapters, useful links, and FREE flashcards, available for downloading, check out the VPC website at verypracticalchinese.com