I think you should learn from alphabet if your chinese level is zero.and come here to learning chinese,sometimes try to write something on here and let the native speaker correct it also a good way to improve your chinese.finally,try your best to using chinese as more as possible in your life.there are some websites for learning Chinese and hope useful for you.go for it! http://chinesepod.com/ http://learningchineseonline.net/ http://www.estudychinese.com/ http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/

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jaja, Libros de texto de primaria

Woah, my bad.

Yale University is coming out with a new textbook called Encounters. I've previewed the book for my Chinese class, and it seems pretty good. I like it better than the textbook we're currently using, which is Integrated Chinese. Both are good IMO