Tuttle Publishing Learning Chinese: Speak, Read and Write Chinese with Manga!

Everything you need to learn Chinese is in this book at a fraction of the cost of expensive language kits!

This book teaches you all the basics of the Chinese language, including practical conversations and vocabulary, and how to write the basic characters--with manga comic strips for easy learning! It enables you to begin communicating effectively from the first day. All Chinese words and sentences are given in Chinese characters and hanyu pinyin romanized form for easy pronunciation, with English translations.

The book includes useful notes and explanations on pronunciation, the Chinese script, greetings and requests, basic sentence structure and vocabulary, idiomatic expressions and etiquette dos and don'ts. A useful bi-directional dictionary of commonly-used Chinese words and phrases is provided at the back.