The Mandarin Primer

Mandarin Primer: An Intensive Course in Spoken Chinese

1. Lesson A1, Single Tones
2. Lesson A2, Tones in Combinations
3. Lesson A3, The Neutral Tone
4. Lesson B1, Difficult Consonants
5. Lesson B2, Difficult Vowels
6. Lesson B3, Easy Sounds, Hard to Remember
7. Lesson C1, Initials; Lesson C2, Finals
8. Lesson C2, Exercise; Lesson C3, 2nd Tone Finals
9. Lesson C3, Exercise; Lesson C4, 3rd Tone Finals
10. Lesson C4, Exercise; Lesson C5, 4th Tone Finals
11. Lesson C5 Exercises
12. Lesson C8, Exercise (g), General Dictation
13. Lesson D1, Tone Sandhi for I and BU; Lesson D2, Two-Syllable Groups; Lesson D3, Three-Syllable
14. Lesson 1, You, I, and He - Four Men
15. Lesson 1, Ex. 3, Comments
16. Lesson 1, Ex. 4, Questions to Answer
17. Lesson 2, Things
18. Lesson 2, Ex. 3, Comments
19. Lesson 2, Ex. 4, Questions to Answer
20. Lesson 2, Ex. 5, Contrasting Questions
21. Lesson 2, Ex. 6, Close and Open Forms of Questions
22. Lesson 3, Speaking Chinese
23. Lesson 3, Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
24. Lesson 3, Ex. 2, On the Form SH...DE
25. Lesson 3, Ex. 3, Interjections of Assent & Dissent
26. Lesson 4, Telephoning
27. Lesson 4, Ex. 1, Questions to Answer
28. Lesson 4, Ex. 4, Filling out Blanks
29. Lesson 4, Ex. 5, Forms of Definition
30. Lesson 5, Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back, and Middle