The whole text is divided into two volumes, each containing 20 chapters, Lesson 1-5 in the first volume deals with Chinese phonetics, and in addition, some day-to-day and classroom expressions making use of some 128 vocabulary. Each of the remaining 15 chapters contains short text and dialogue. Through the study of the short texts, learners are included in the vocabulary sections, with a total of 791 vocabularies in the 15 chapters. Each chapter's end contains an appendix, presenting every day subjects as classified with the aid of pictures.