Mandarin Self-Study

About the Book

My book delves into the history of the Chinese language, Romanization/Pinyin, RPC, comparison of teaching methods, phonetic software, memory game, prelude to lessons and above all, 12 lessons with syntactical explanations, exercises and grammar summary.

TELL ME, I MAY NOT RECALL;
SHOW ME, I MIGHT REMEMBER;
INVOLVE ME, AND I'LL NEVER FORGET.

My book involves YOU.


For more information, please visit www.rpcmandarin.com

About the Author

Born into a family of diplomats in Nationalist China, the author has traveled extensively first to Holland, then to Mexico, and ultimately to U.S. where he graduated from a private engineering college in the state of Indiana with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. While he has pursued an engineering career in U.S., culminating in establishing his own engineering company and technical trading with China, his first love has always been foreign languages. Upon retirement, he switched career. As a result, he has been teaching Spanish and Chinese at adult schools and giving private Mandarin lessons. He has also contributed an article on Post WTO with reference to China Market published by Pumps and Systems in 2003. At the present, he is still active in teaching foreign languages. Meanwhile, a local community college where numerous foreign languages are taught is considering his RPC course for their students wishing to learn Mandarin.