Top 5 Beginner's Chinese Books

The book teaches the most basic words and patterns to enable students to begin talking and communicating based on Pinyin.

Teaches conversational Mandarin Chinese with grammar and culture. It contains 40 lessons, each with a lively, authentic Chinese dialogue that includes the most common and useful expressions for everyday conversation.

This is a useful book for learning to speak Mandarin Chinese.

The book contains about 4,500 characters. It gives the pronunciation, definition and derivation for each of the basic 1,062 characters, with examples of the use of most words and a chart showing how to write each character.

It is a good reference book for beginners. It contains about 5,000 characters.