If you think learning a foreign language must necessarily rhyme with tiresome work, the first volume of Chinese with Ease is here to show you a different way. This volume of 49 lessons is the first part of a two-volume package: altogether there are 105 lessons in Chinese with Ease. Providing you with Chinese characters and with Pinyin (the official transcription of Chinese characters), it will soon enable you to read and speak Chinese. 

Do you remember how you learned to speak as a child?

Your learning of Chinese will be based on the same mechanisms, in two distinct phases:

○ the passive phase where you simply listen and repeat, throughout the two volumes.

○ the active phase starting with the second volume, when you will begin to create your own sentences 

In volume 1 of Chinese with Ease, the lively dialogues taken from everyday events in China will not only immerse you in Chinese culture, but will also familiarise you with modern Chinese vocabulary, phrases and sentences. You will only need half an hour of study each day.

The active phase of your study begins with this second volume of Chinese with Ease.

These 56 lessons will allow you to improve your Mandarin Chinese. You will not only widen your knowledge of the language but you will also be able to evaluate your progress, as you become increasingly able to make the best use of what you have learned. Be confident and enjoy learning Chinese with the lively dialogues from day-to-day Chinese life.  As you were told in the first volume, when you have completed your study of Chinese with Ease, you will have reached a good level of Chinese, and command a wide vocabulary for use in all sorts of practical and useful phrases.

You will be in possession of the basic tools of Chinese, as summarized in the appendices at the end of the book. They will be a useful reference if you wish to pursue your learning and discovery of this beautiful language

Using this book you will learn the fundamentals of Chinese writing – via the study of the 800 most common characters of modern Chinese. Writing Chinese with Ease follows the 105 lessons of Chinese with Ease, presenting the characters in order of appearance throughout the two volumes. However it is not necessary to have used Chinese with Ease in order to study with this book. The explanations given in Writing Chinese with Ease can also be followed by students who did not choose the Assimil method to learn how to speak Chinese.

By explaining their composition stroke-by-stroke, this book will teach you to write beautiful Chinese characters. The useful appendices included at the end of Writing Chinese

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The active phase of your study begins with this second volume of Japanese with Ease.
 

As you were told in the first volume, when you have completed your study of Japanese with Ease, you will have reached a good level of Chinese, and command a wide vocabulary for use in all sorts of practical and useful phrases.

Professionally made by native speakers, audio recordings of all lessons and exercises help to acquire a genuine accent. They are valuable: listen to them often!

Inside you will learn the fundamentals of writing the characters of traditional Japan, borrowed from Chinese (Kanji).

Writing Japanese with Ease follows the 99 lessons of Japanese with Ease, presenting the characters in order of appearance throughout the two volumes. The book lists each Kanji with its radical, its number of strokes, the different pronunciations of the character and - of course - its meaning. For development of your writing skills, the stroke-by-stroke character lay-out will be very useful, teaching you the rules of writing Kanji.

Don't miss the useful appendices such as the Table of Radicals, the Index listing Kanji by number of strokes, as well as the dialogue texts of Japanese With Ease, given in standard written Japanese.