How To Mandawin: A Guide To Learning Mandarin Chinese

How to Mandawin is a book written for anyone who has ever had interest in learning Mandarin Chinese. If you’ve opened a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant and found the vocabulary on the backside of your fortune interesting, then this book is for you.

Fortune cookie enthusiast and lifelong Chinese learner and author Erik Bowitz explains in very simple, and quite often humorous language what it takes to begin learning Chinese and guarantee a successful outcome. Drawing from real life experiences as well as his own studies and travels, How to Mandawin lays out a light-hearted, real-world strategy for learning Mandarin Chinese.

Broken down into short and concise sections, the book details in simple detail how to prepare, how to get in the right mindset, how to know what helps and what hinders Chinese learning, basic classroom and immersion techniques, common studying abroad and working scenarios, and even how relationships contribute to building fluency.

Ultimately, How to Mandawin aims to equip the reader with the best strategy to win at learning Chinese and have fun doing it!