Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (the activity books are available online as PDFs at www.yalebooks.com/cic), and provides the framework for a proficiency-based approach to learning standard Chinese. Focusing on all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the program consists of a series of graded tasks that approximate the real-life tasks that a student might face. The approach requires students to learn and manipulate vocabulary and structures to achieve specific real-life...