Learning Mandarin Chinese

A complete beginner textbook from Michigan State University covering tones, pinyin, characters, and 7 dialogue-based lessons on everyday topics like introductions, family, food, and phone calls. CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed.

Wenying Zhou

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