"Golden Chinese: A Golden Key for Entry" is an intensive study in Chinese Mandarin with practical and interesting anecdotes in conversations. It contains simple and clear grammatical explanations, step-by-step exercises with answers; moreover, it provides unique cultural and historical introduction in each lesson. This book is for complete beginners and for those who have learned the language years before wanting to have a good review of basic Chinese and move up to intermediate level smoothly. It will guide you to grasp the language quickly by using both the textbook and the audio CDs (CD1, CD2 and CD3 which are available in Amazon.com). The layout of each text (every line) has combined 3 things: Pinyin with tone marks (Alphabet), Hanzi (Simplified Chinese characters), and English translation. It leads you to focus on today's Spoken Chinese since 80% of everyday communication is through speaking.