This series offers a sequential four semester course for mastering Modern Mandarin Chinese. In the first semester "Chinese by Numbers" uses the number system to focus on grammar, especially nouns. The second semester, "Chinese by the Book, " concentrates on stative verbs and adjectives, followed by static verbs in the third semester, "Chinese by Bygones." The fourth semester, "Chinese to a T," covers units of speech used to predict, limit, and connect...