bThis user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know--English.b p Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first, but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken aspect. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and new manga illustrations. pThis book is designed for everyone who wants to learn to speak and understand colloquial Chinese--whether it is for business, pleasure, or travel to China. A lighthearted guide that brings Chinese to life in a down-to-earth fashion, iMandarin Chinese for Beginnersi makes language learning fun. ulli Real-life dialogues and situations help you to converse with confidencelili Sentence pattern exercises and drills help to reinforce what you are learninglili Native-speaker audio recordings enable you to pronounce Chinese vocabulary accuratelylili Interesting notes, id