Discovering Chinese is a set of textbooks specifically designed for students learning Chinese in non-Chinese speaking communities. Volume One is available now and contains 12 lessons with the following features:

• A spiral-up, step-by-step approach that reinforces and builds upon material from previous lessons, and emphasizes speaking and comprehension.
• A comprehensive selection of characters and sentence patterns.
• Highly relevant topics with immediately useful language, covering school, family, daily life, sports, etc.
• Vivid illustrations, detailed cultural and grammatical introductions.