Teach Yourself Chinese Complete Course Author:Elizabeth Scurfield Here is a complete course in the Chinese language, with graded units of dialogues, culture notes, grammar, and exercises that make it easy to study and then practice what's been learned. Audiocassettes feature dialogue recorded by native speakers. — All the lessons are in the modern Mandarin transcription used in the People's Republic. Mo... more »st of the first half is also given in the modern simplified characters also used there. There is no Cantonese dialect.« less