Integrated Chinese Level 1 - Textbook (Simplified characters): 2

CAME IN GREAT CONDITION WORDS ON PAGE ARE CLEAR EASY TO READ WILL POST UPDATE AFTER GETTING INTO SOME SERIOUS STUDYING TIL THEN, 再见大家

My daughter will use this book as a reference for a placement test. My daughter was happy with its content, so this is good.

This book is very good and is a great choice for someone serious about learning Mandarin for self-instruction. If you have ever studied the Japanese language, these books are very similar to the excellent GENKI book series. The lessons revolve around a group of international students learning Mandarin.You can download the audio for the lessons for this book and I highly recommend it. For me, I can only learn the proper Chinese tones using audio. Reading the Pinyin English text has never been useful to me to learn correct pronunciations. The audio is broken up into "bite sized" audio files so it's easy to find and listen to the audio for a particular lesson.The key to Mandarin is to learn the fundamentals. After that you will be able to venture out and learn Mandarin by other methods such as watching movies, using a tutor, etc. For me, I have been studying "Listen and Repeat" Mandarin lessons for a few years. But, I realized my progress is limited because I never learned the fundamentals. That's why I purchased this book.This book uses Chinese characters from the first lesson. It's painful, but it's necessary.The bottom line is if you are looking for a solid book to learn the basics of Mandarin I think this is an excellent choice. I only gave it 4 stars because the audio doesn't perfectly match the text. They need to do a revision for the audio part.

New book as promised, but was bent on the spine.

It has someones name written in it and the corners were frayed. Someone has written on the pages. Was suppose to be new or like new!This book, upon review of the book, is not designed for self study and does not include all of the needed materials!!!!I downloaded the sound files from the website but it needs to include a workbook!!!!I regret my purchase.