Elementary Chinese I

A comprehensive course covering Chinese characters, radicals, Mandarin phonetics, pinyin, zhuyin, and grammar fundamentals including pronouns, quantifiers, verbs, and adjectives. From National Chiao-Tung University.

Daniel J. Greenhoe

Ten chapters by language specialists covering pronunciation, tones, vocabulary memorization, listening skills, sentence structure, motivation, immersion, technology tools, and character learning methods.

Various authors

An open-content textbook covering Chinese language basics, pinyin pronunciation, tones, and seven structured lessons on greetings, particles, word order, measure words, and interrogatives. Includes both simplified and traditional characters.

Wikibooks

A practical 15-lesson crash course covering Chinese tones, phonetics, grammar basics, greetings, introductions, numbers, food ordering, useful phrases, emergencies, directions, and daily vocabulary. Designed for Peace Corps volunteers.

Peace Corps China