 | Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks) by Yip Po-Ching
Buy used from: £20.17 Covers all the basic grammar and functions you need. All in both characters and pinyin.
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 | Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars) by Yip Po-Ching
Buy new: £17.48 / Used from: £14.59 Follow on from the above. Same useful format.
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 | Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £4.81 A must-have. This is one of the few bi-lingual Ch & Eng dictionaries going and is really quite good.
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 | ABC Chinese-English Dictionary (ABC Chinese Dictionary)
Buy used from: £47.74 A necessary addition to your Chinese resources. Great for audio work as it's 100% alphabetical.
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 | Chinese-English Dictionary of the 500 Most Frequently Used Words: A Study Guide to Mandarin Chinese by Yong Ho
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.66 Great for helping which characters to learn first. (Script is essential, really. You don't want to be illiterate, do you?!)
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 | Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar (Schaum's Outline Series) by Claudia Ross
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.74 Another very accessible grammar workbook, esp for those on a budget and who aren't linguistically confident. Traditional and simplified characters, plus pinyin!
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 | Beginner's Chinese - Book and double CD pack (Mandarin)(Teach Yourself Languages S.) by Elizabeth Scurfield
Buy used from: £22.99 Great intro to the spoken language. Lots of excellent practical material, but very little script, which is a shame. Get the audio too.
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 | Colloquial Chinese: A Complete Language Course (PB + CD) by Qian Kan
Buy used from: £24.99 Covers a lot of ground plus teaches you the rudiments of reading and writing! Get the audio too.
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 | Colloquial Chinese 2 (Colloquial Series) by Kan Qian
Buy new: £13.67 / Used from: £8.73 Plenty of realistic and up to date material with both script and romanisation. Get the audio as well though, not just the book - even at higher levels.
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 | Schaum's Outline of Chinese Vocabulary (Schaum's Outline Series) by Yanping Xie
Buy used from: £15.00 Situational vocab and dialogues. Well worth having.
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![Teach Yourself Chinese [With 2 CDs] (Teach Yourself (McGraw-Hill))](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516PRT4RGYL._SL75_.jpg) | Teach Yourself Chinese [With 2 CDs] (Teach Yourself (McGraw-Hill)) by Liz Scurfield
Buy used from: £14.13 Newer edition is much more user-friendly. I can now recommend this one. Get the audio too.
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 | Ultimate Chinese (Mandarin) Basic (Living Language Ultimate Basic-Intermediate Series (Bk & CD)) by Living Language
Buy new: £38.24 / Used from: £27.50 Excellent course book, very thorough looking. Intro to script included.
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 | First Thousand Words in Chinese by Heather Amery
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £10.49 Good fun and really useful. Get a Chinese friend to supply the correct measure words. Linked website for pronunciation.
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 | Chinese-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Dictionaries) by Dorling Kindersley
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.55 Contains every useful word you could possibly imagine and many more. Again, a Chinese person needed for measure words, but a great resource.
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 | Chinese in Steps: v. 1 by George Zhang
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £9.20 Great course for those who aren't afraid to leap right in with characters from day 1. CD included. Use with other courses.
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 | Chinese in Steps: v. 2: For Speakers of Chinese as a Foreign Language by George Zhang
Buy new: £12.59 Follow on from the above, same comments.
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