Mandarin Express
Speak Mandarin with confidence. Acquire the skills to chat about daily life and work, to discuss Chinese culture, and to analyse world issues.

This book is the first book for non-Chinese speakers to learn Mandarin, helping them quickly start having conversations in Mandarin around ten fundamental topics.

This Work Book provides sufficient opportunities for students to practice Chinese, and to develop their listening abilities through targeted and controlled exercises.

This book helps students learn important structures and enlarges their vocabulary, improving their conversational abilities in Mandarin with more clarity.

This Work Book includes a variety of exercises for students to practice words, sentences, and improves their listening abilities through controlled conversations and stories.

This book brings students’ conversational abilities in Mandarin to a new level. Students will be able to speak Mandarin in a more sophisticated manner.

This Work Book is important for students to improve their Mandarin listening abilities, to consolidate their learnings, and to increase their knowledge retention.

This book focuses on ten important themes, around which students further develop their communication skills and practice presenting ideas in Mandarin.

This Work Book provides targeted exercises and is heavily weighted with listening exercises. On completing this book, students’ confidence will be boosted tremendously.

This is the first character based book in the series. Pinyin is not included. Students learn Chinese characters quickly, increase their cultural awareness, and improve their presentation skills.

This Work Book provides sufficient exercises for targeted training and drill, and sharpens students’ Chinese language skills to a great extent.

Students practice articulating thoughts and ideas in Mandarin around ten contemporary issues, taking a giant step towards Chinese language proficiency.

This Work Book is essential in developing students’ language abilities in all fronts, and particularly helpful in improving their listening abilities.

This book is the bridge between the Chinese classroom and the real world media, featuring long Chinese articles discussing historical events, businesses, technology and life.

This book presents a collection of famous Chinese texts, covering a time span of nearly 4000 years. Students get involved in important debates and cultivate essential Chinese cultural literacy.
About Mandarin Express series

Communication based Chinese textbooks
Speak fluent Mandarin Chinese, communicate well in Chinese, and enjoy every bit of fun along the way! That’s the purpose of Mandarin Express series.

Relevant and interesting Chinese textbooks for adult learners
Mandarin Express series is written for adult learners, providing four levels of comprehensive instructions with highly relevant and interesting content.

Newspapers, magazines, novels, hone the ability to comprehend written texts in Chinese
From “artificial” to “authentic” Chinese texts, and from “before” to “after” the reading, Mandarin Express series helps students develop active Chinese reading skills.
Self-study audio courses for beginners
Intro and Basic levels of the Mandarin Express series are incorporated into audio courses, which help beginner students teach themselves to speak fluent Mandarin by following the guide How to self-study Mandarin with a focus on listening and speaking.
Check out these audio courses and listen to sample audio lessons here: