Introducing the Book 1. Target reader: beginners in junior and senior high school. 2. Duration: one semester, suitable for the schools with less Chinese learning hours. 3. The texts come in both traditional and simplified Chinese. Pinyin is also included. A glossary is attached at the end of the book. 4. Chinese characters: 276 different Chinese characters are included. 5. Vocabulary: 286 words (meaning units) are included. 6. Sentence patterns: 56 sentence patterns are included. ..more