A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers

After years of helping Chinese speakers reach their English language goals, Jeff has brought his unique perspective to English speakers who wish to learn Chinese. Jeff's e-book A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers is exactly what it claims to be, the best guide to learning Mandarin Chinese available anywhere. Unlike most language books that focus on WHAT you need to learn, Jeff focuses on you, the learner: a speaker of English faced with learning to communicate in an entirely new way. It is Jeff's focus on you, the learner, that makes A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin  for English Speakers an invaluable first step for anyone who hopes to successfully master Mandarin Chinese.  

No language is more difficult than any other. Learning certain languages, however, presents unique challenges for speakers of certain other languages. By anticipating those challenges, you can more easily overcome them.
--Coach Jeff

A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers exposes you to the basics of Mandarin Chinese, both theoretically and practically. In the opening chapter, Jeff identifies the areas that present unique challenges to you, an English speaker learning Chinese, and helps you to understand why these challenges arise. Then, in the following chapters, Jeff assists you in building your Mandarin Chinese foundation by exploring

The Characters

The Sounds

The Words

The Sentences

of Mandarin. Jeff's unique ability to make abstract linguistic concepts understandable through the use of concrete, easily comprehended examples makes A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers the best choice for both serious learners and for the casual reader who simply wants to see what Mandarin Chinese is all about.

Why Purchase A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers?

The Internet is full of products purporting to be able to teach you Mandarin Chinese. Most of them also claim to be able to teach you Spanish, French, Swahili, Klingon, and a host of others. Companies such as these are obviously experts in marketing, but not experts in Mandarin Chinese. They have one teaching style, one program, one cookie-cutter model. They simply plug in the words of each new language and then charge you hundreds of dollars for their "effort." 

Coach Jeff's A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers is specifically designed to do one thing, and to do it well, to provide you with the tools you need to succeed in learning a very specific language, Mandarin Chinese, with its very specific challenges and difficulties. Coach Jeff is not a large assembly-line operation cranking out fast-food style language lessons. He is just a man who has done what YOU want to do. And you can take advantage of his teaching and learning experiences for much less than the hundreds of dollars other products might cost you.

Do not make the mistake of assuming that A Beginner's Guide to Mandarin for English Speakers is simply a "book" that you read on your computer screen. Coach Jeff makes use of all that the "e-book" format has to offer. With pictures, animations, and hundreds of sound samples spoken by native speakers of Mandarin, Coach Jeff puts everything you need right at your fingertips. With easy to use navigation and textual links, you will be able to find what you need without wasting time flipping through hundreds of pages.