Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 What is Chinese?
1.1.1 Who speaks Chinese?
1.1.2 Foreigners learning Chinese in the past
1.1.3 Foreigners learning Chinese today
1.1.4 How long will it take me to learn Chinese?
1.2 HSK--The Chinese Proficiency Examination
1.2.1 Learning "a bit of Chinese"
1.2.2 The romanization question
1.2.3 The spread of putonghua in China
1.2.4 Putonghua in Hong Kong
1.3 Mandarin in Southeast Asia
1.4 Chinese as a world language
1.4.1 Chinese dialects
1.4.2 How to start?
1.4.3 The spoken language
1.5 Levels of Modern Chinese
1.5.1 Varieties of putonghua
1.6 Tones
Chapter 2 Chinese Characters
2.1 Origins
2.1.1 The traditional six categories
2.1.2 The modern three categories
2.1.3 Pictographs
2.1.4 Loan graphs
2.1.5 Phonographs
2.1.6 How many radicals are there?
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Chapter 3 History and Dialects
Chapter 4 Grammar
Chapter 5 Pronunciation
Chapter 6 Beyond the Basics
Sources of Illustrations and Quotations
Suggestions for Further Reading
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