Practical Rhythmic Chinese provides students with a new approach by taking advantage of the melodious and rhythmic nature of the Chinese language. It combines the Chinese traditional method of reading out loud with modem Chinese daily expressions that also facilitate recognizing and writing commonly used Chinese characters. With only a little more than 400 commonly-used Chinese characters, this book contains more than 50 easy-to-learn rhythmic verses and covers more than 100 basic Chinese grammatical points. This book can be used to help students to master the Chinese tones and to learn basic Chinese characters and Chinese grammatical concepts well at the same time, so as to lay a solid foundation for them to continue to learn Chinese at a higher level.

John Jing-hua Yin is associate professor of Chinese and chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Vermont. Diana Yiqing Sun is senior lecturer of Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Vermont.