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Essential Chinese 1500 is the book specially designed for self-directed Chinese language education. The book contains a collection of 1500 essential Chinese sentences and 1156 essential Chinese words organized into 286 topics. The book can be used as either a textbook for beginners' self-directed study or a quick reference manual for intermediate and advanced level students on topic based usage. The book contains a collection of short, expressive and representative Chinese sentences. 99% of the sentences in this book are no more than five Chinese characters in length. With hundreds of topics, you can always find a sentence you need. Each topic section contains a stand-alone vocabulary list and a sentence list, thus you can start anywhere without the dependency on any other topics. Each word and each sentence are defined in the unified five pieces of information: (1). Simplified Chinese, (2). Traditional Chinese, (3). Romanization format Pinyin, (4). Computer format Pinyin, and (5). English translation, where Pinyin is the standard Chinese phonetics system used in mainland China. The book empowers you in your Chinese learning experience by providing you the bricks and mortar for your Chinese skill development. By creatively varying, combining and applying the thousands of primitive words and sentences covered in this book, you can construct unlimited number of new, compound and complex sentences. By studying this book, your Chinese language learning process can be significantly shortened and simplified; you will quickly gain confidence in your Chinese language skills; you can even impress Chinese speakers and gain quick respect and friendship from them.