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MANDARIN TEXTBOOK RECCOMENDATION

I’ve been studying Mandarin in class and by myself for almost four years now, and in this time I’ve used 4 different textbooks. By far, the best and yet least talked about is 收获 HARVEST & workbooks.However, it is slightly pricey, so see if you can get a used one.

Personally,I do not think you need a textbook to learn Mandarin and most of my time isn’t spent in a textbook, but if you prefer textbooks this is the best I’ve had next to Intergrated Chinese. However, for the first time, I’m actually actively using a textbook.

TEXTBOOK FORMAT:

Goals, context & warm up questions

Dialogue reading (with questions)

Vocabulary (with example sentences! in the one I use, around 40ish/unit + 20ish per each reading lesson in unit)

6ish pages of grammar drilling/writing/vocab in context for each lesson

Unit summary

+ Heavy on culture points, including movies, literature, famous people