This is the coordinated book of Chinese for Beginners , an ABC MOOC on Coursera for the global learners focus on listening and speaking. The number of the visitors is up to 650,000 by August 2016 and the active learners are more than 300,000 from more than 200 countries and regions. The course is made up of 28 lessons in 7 modules. Selected topics and situations come from real life scenarios and about 180 vocabularies can be used for everyday communication. And what is better, learners don t need to study Chinese characters. The appendix at the end of the book is the vocabulary list with Pinyin, Chinese character, English and Spanish which is helpful for the learners to summarize and review.
