◇Intended for secondary school students whose mother tongues are not Chinese

◇The book consists of four volumes corresponding to the four stages and improves the learners’ Chinese proficiency in a progressive way

◇Integrated teaching of Chinese phonetics, Chinese characters, vocabulary and sentence patterns offers comprehensive training of learners’ skills of Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing

◇Communicative and task-based exercises improve learners’ practical language ability while consolidating their mastery of Chinese words, phrases and sentence patterns

◇A free MP3 CD for each volume; an additional Chinese character workbook for volume 1