100 lessons – 744 pp – 3 audio CD – 1 audio download code. The Chinese here transmitted is the language of the Han, 汉语 hanyu, or common language, 普通话 putonghua. Indeed, every child in the PRC (People's Republic of China) learns it in school, regardless of the family or local dialect they speak on a daily basis. This common language - and in fact shared - will allow you to communicate to the farthest reaches of China as well as in the entire Chinese diaspora. Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan group. Whether you are French-speaking or Anglo-German-Russo-Hispanic-Lusophone... your mother tongue belongs to the vast Indo-European nebula. And if you were born outside this mega-group, it will be the same: when you start studying Chinese, you change nebula, group, writing, sounds, tones and everything! Don't worry: those who have ventured before you have arrived safely and with pleasure. The recordings include all of the Chinese texts of the lessons and translation exercises in the book. They are interpreted, at a progressive pace, by professional native speakers.