Hacking Learning Chinese
tokenadult: The royal road to learning Chinese is to use the textbook series written by John DeFrancis (who died just this year).http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=John+DeFrancis&sou...His Chinese Reader serieshttp://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Chinese-Reader-Part-I/dp/030...has never been surpassed. See my HN profile for my basis of knowledge.