Chinese Without a Teacher e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The orthography, if such it may be called, is an attempt to express, so far as possible, Chinese sounds in simple English. The Chinese vowel-sound 12 is the only one which cannot be even approximately expressed, and the reader is therefore requested to pronounce it like the French u, or the German ii.