Specially designed with brand-new approaches for foreign students beginning to learn Chinese. Includes 40 topics covering virtually almost all aspects of daily communication, introducing more than 1,000 commonly used words, and 80 essential aspects of Chinese grammar. Beginning with pinyin only, instead of dealing with both pronunciation and character recognition, students will find Spoken Chinese course easy to master, and will be able to communicate in Chinese in no time. Includes one book and 3 cassette tapes.