Everyday Chinese: Chinese Course Book for Middle Schools in Thailand is a series of country-specific textbooks designed for middle schools in Thailand. In accordance with the “Standards for Middle School Chinese Teaching” in Thailand, this series has been designed along three lines: communicative functions, linguistic structures, and cultural contents, and has incorporated the vocabulary, grammar points, functions and topics in the HSK Guideline. It is suitable for Thai students from first year in junior high to last year in senior high. Novice learners will reach the level of HSK 4 after learning this series.

This is Book 1 in the series, consisting of five units, 28 lessons. Units 1-2 each have five lessons, focusing on pronunciation and Chinese characters. Units 3-5 make up the main body of the book, involving the three topics “meeting for the first time”, “my information”, and “family and friends”; each unit contains six lessons: one vocabulary lesson, three texts, one “pronunciation and Chinese characters” lesson and one review lesson. At the end of the book is a test paper.

This book is characterized by simple, interesting and practical content, beautiful, concise and colorful design, and abundant supportive resources (including courseware, images, audios, videos, etc.). Learners can listen to the recordings using an MPR talking pen or scan the QR code on the back cover to download the audio files.

Zhu Ruiping is the executive dean of College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University, and the deputy executive director of Beijing Center for International Chinese Education, whose research interests include Chinese philology, international Chinese education, collation of ancient books, and Chinese culture, etc. Mr. Zhu has published more than 40 academic papers, more than one million Chinese characters of edited works, and more than 300,000 Chinese characters of monographs. He has hosted or participated in several big national and international projects. Feng Liping, professor in the College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University, mainly engages in the studies of Chinese language cognition and L2 Chinese learning and teaching, and has hosted several research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Hanban.