LevelBeginnerprimary choice to begin your Chinese learning with. Altogether there are three volumes, each of which is divided into two volumes. The first two are used in the first semester, the third used in the second semester. The course is divided into three stages: the phonetic stage  for  developing  the  pronunciation  skills  and  learning  common characters, the grammar stage for developing simple communication skills through conversations, and the lexical stage for expanding vocabulary ...